Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
  • Part I: Early Programs
  • 1. The Quintessence of the Humanities: Folklore and Mythology at Harvard / Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli
  • 2. Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: Folklore at the University of North Carolina / Patricia Sawin
  • 3. Teaching and Research at Laval University (Québec, Canada): From Folklore to Ethnology / Laurier Turgeon
  • 4. The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg / Simon J. Bronner
  • Part II: 1960s-70s Efflorescence
  • 5. "The Great Team" of American Folklorists: Characters Large in Life and Grand in Plans / Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
  • 6. The Jewel in the Crown: Hallmarks of Success in Indiana University's Folklore Program / Jeanne Harrah-Johnson
  • 7. Folklore and Mythology Studies at UCLA / Michael Owen Jones
  • 8. Of Politics, Disciplines, and Scholars: MacEdward Leach and the Founding of the Folklore Program at the University of Pennsylvania / Rosina S. Miller
  • 9. Groundtruthing the Humanities: Penn Folklore and Folklife, 1973-2013 / Mary Hufford
  • 10. Toward a Multi-Genealogical Folkloristics: The Berkeley Experiment / Charles L. Briggs
  • 11. The Texas School / Richard Bauman
  • 12. Memorial University's Folklore Program: Outsiders and Insiders / rLynne S. McNeill
  • 13. A Century of Folklore Research and Teaching at Western Kentucky / Michael Ann Williams
  • 14. Folklore at the University of Oregon: A History of Tradition, Innovation, and Pushing the Rock Up the Hill / Sharon R. Sherman
  • 15. From Ukrainian Studies to the Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta / Natalie Kononenko
  • 16. Engagement with Community in Distinctive Folklore Concentrations: University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Marcia Gaudet and Barry Jean Ancelet
  • 17. The Fife Legacy: Fifty Years of Folklore at Utah State University / Randy Williams
  • Part III: Newer Programs and Innovations
  • 18. Folklore in the Nation's Capital: The George Washington University Experience / James I. Deutsch
  • 19. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Folklore Program and the Wisconsin Idea / Christine J. Widmayer and B. Marcus Cederström
  • 20. Folklore at Brigham Young's Universities: Four Generations of Inter(con)textual Studies of Region, Religion, and Beyond / Jill Terry Rudy
  • 21. The Mason IDEA / Debra Lattanzi Shutika
  • 22. Folklore and Interdisciplinarity at OSU / Patrick B. Mullen and Amy Shuman
  • 23. Show Me Folklore: The Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies Program at the University of Missouri / Claire Schmidt
  • 24. This is the Right Place for It: The Development of the Folklore Program at Cape Breton University / Jodi McDavid
  • 25. Practical Cultural Work: The MA in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College / Amy E. Skillman and Rory Turner
  • 26. The Future out of the Past: The View from the Conference on the Future of American Folkloristics / Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, and Meredith A. E. McGriff
  • Conclusion / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt