Roger D. Abrahams
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Aeschylus 29 African culture embodiment 251, 252 Fes Festival see Fes Festival Gbayan riddles see Gbayan riddles in diaspora 257 Carnival 195-196, 252-254 dance 251-252 global impact 258 hip hop see hip hop culture myths 256-257 translocat…
View article: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me is a brilliant, ground-breaking work in both the collection and analysis of African American oral culture.
View article: LSY volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
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View article: Complicity and Imitation in Storytelling: A Pragmatic Folklorist's Perspective
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Experience is a process that continually gives us new material to digest. We handle this intellectually by the mass of beliefs of which we find ourselves already possessed, assimilating, rejecting, or rearranging in different degrees. Some…
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Given the training and the research methods drawn upon here by Alessandro Falassi in this remarkable monograph, it is tempting to see this study in terms of the best of the Old World joining with the best of the New.Trained in the sociolog…
View article: American Folklore and American Studies
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The quest for what we would now call American folklore was part of the larger search for American culture by writers at least as early as the time of the Republic's founding.Every student of American literature knows of Irving's attempt, f…
View article: Report on the Symposium “The Formation of Folklore Traditions in North and South America” and Other Folklore Sessions at the Congress of Americanists
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