Public folklore/
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Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Reflections and directions. The public, the folklorist and the public folklorist / Roger D. Abrahams
- Mistaken dichotomies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Public folkloreʹs name: a partisanʹs notes / Archie Green
- Happy birthday, dear American folklore society: reflections on the work and mission of folklorists / Bess Lomax Hawes
- Part II: Metaphors and methods of practice. Cultural conversation: metaphors and methods in public folklore / Nick Spitzer
- "So correct for the photograph": "fixing" the ineffable, ineluctable African American / Gerald L. Davis
- Public folklore: a glimpse of the pattern that connects / Robert S. McCarl
- Field work and social work: folklore as helping profession / Frank Proschan
- The journey of David Allen, Cane Carver: transformations through public folklore / Susan Roach
- Presenting folklife in a Soviet-American cultural exchange: public practice during perestroika / Richard Kurin
- Crossover dreams: the folklorist and the folk arrival / Daniel Sheehy
- Feet on the ground, head in the clouds: some thoughts on the training of public folklorists / Jim Griffith
- Part III: Recovering a history of public folklore. The foundations of American public folklore / Roger D. Abrahams
- Feasts of unnaming: folk festivals and the representation of folklife / Robert Cantwell
- Postwar public folklore and the professionalization of folklore studies / Robert Baron
- Public folklore: a bibliographic introduction / Steve Siporin