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Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:14:16 +0000

Contents FF Communications under Duress Frog The Where, How and Who of Digital Ethnography Coppélie Cocq A Brief History of the University of California, Berkeley’s Folklore Graduate Program Charles L. Briggs Beyond Content Analysis Katherine Borland Review – Matthias Egeler 2018: Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home Joonas Ahola Announcement from the Oral Tradition Read, […]

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Announcement from Oral Tradition

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:59:14 +0000

We are happy to announce that Oral Tradition, a peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on the world’s oral traditions and related forms from antiquity to the present day, has moved to a new home at Harvard. Oral Tradition reaches more than 20,000 readers per year in over 200 countries, and its electronic format facilitates both […]

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Beyond Content Analysis – Narratives of Belonging in a Changing Neighborhood

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:18:14 +0000

Katherine Borland Recently, I have been exploring the significance of contradictory statements in oral personal narratives and what they might tell us about social identities on the one hand and about the limitations of our research methods on the other. Although much of the early literature on life review focuses on the importance of […]

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Review: Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:51:15 +0000

Joonas Ahola Matthias Egeler 2018: Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home: Gaelic Place-Lore and the Construction of a Sense of Place in Medieval Iceland. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters Folklore Fellows’ Communications 314 Porvoo 2018, 324 pp. Available at Bookstore Tiedekirja, 35 € Matthias Egeler’s book Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home successfully discusses […]

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A Brief History of the University of California, Berkeley’s Folklore Graduate Program

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:23:36 +0000

Charles L. Briggs Please join me on a whirlwind tour of the University of California’s Folklore Graduate Program. In 1957 William Bascom came to the Department of Anthropology. A specialist on African art, Bascom served as president of the American Folklore Society in 1953–1954. Trained at Indiana University in anthropology, folklore, and linguistics, Dell […]

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The Where, How and Who of Digital Ethnography

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:01:32 +0000

Coppelie Cocq “I found it on the internet.” I am convinced that I am not the only one who has received this answer when asking a student to specify the origin of her/his material. “The internet” is part of everyday life for most of us, to some extent and in some form – in our […]

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FF Communications under Duress

Folklore Fellows — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 08:57:33 +0000

Frog The name Folklore Fellows places emphasis on the people of whom it is comprised. People maintain the FF and have driven its evolution across changing times since its founding in 1907. This year, a new challenge has emerged. The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters has been the FF’s publisher almost since it was […]

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