Folklife and Museums

Folklife and Museums
Author: C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781442272934

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This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.

Folklife and Museums

Folklife and Museums
Author: Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1987
Genre: Ethnological museums and collections
ISBN: UIUC:30112064715664

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Spirit of Folk Art

Spirit of Folk Art
Author: Henry Glassie
Publsiher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0810924382

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A truly international treatment of its subject, The Spirit of Folk Art draws upon the vast resources of the Girard Collection, amassed by Alexander and Susan Girard and housed at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Distinguished folklorist and scholar Henry Glassie offers a vigorous and often lyrical discussion of the nature of folk art. More than 345 illustrations, including 285 in full color and 50 field photographs showing the various artists at work, provide a rich complement to Glassie's insights.

Cultural History and Material Culture

Cultural History and Material Culture
Author: Thomas J. Schlereth
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813913969

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This profusely illustrated collection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should engage anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life have influenced, and will continue to influence, our cultural history.

Ethnomimesis

Ethnomimesis
Author: Robert S. Cantwell
Publsiher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807860694

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Wide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music. In the broadest sense, ethnomimesis is the representation of culture. Using such diverse cultural artifacts as King Lear and an eighteenth-century English manor garden to deepen our understanding of ethnomimesis, Cantwell then explores at length the representation of culture in our national museum, the Smithsonian, focusing especially on the Festival of American Folklife. Like many other such exhibitions, the Festival enacts presentations of culture across the boundaries of rank and class, race and ethnicity, gender and the life cycle. Like the concept of 'folklife' itself, Cantwell argues, the Festival stands where ethnomimesis finds its creative source, at the cultural frontier between self and other. That boundary, and the energy that accumulates there, runs through the many, varied 'exhibits' of this book.

Curatorial Conversations

Curatorial Conversations
Author: Olivia Cadaval,Sojin Kim,Diana Baird N'Diaye
Publsiher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781496805997

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Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping its practices. Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of the Festival's curatorial staff--past and present--in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity. In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N'Diaye, contributors examine how Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically the Festival's institutional values as they have evolved over time and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on their own experiences at the Festival.

Folklore and Folklife

Folklore and Folklife
Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1972
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226158716

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Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.

Encyclopedia of American Folklore

Encyclopedia of American Folklore
Author: Linda S. Watts
Publsiher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2006
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9781438129792

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Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore the topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to the folklore of the United States.