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2008 Annual Meeting “The Commons and the Commonwealth” Program and Abstracts Hyatt Regency Hotel Louisville, Kentucky October 22-26, 2008 The following donors have provided generous support for the American Folklore Society’s 2008 activities: American Folklore Society Executive Board American Folklore Society Legacy Council Members Center for Folklore Studies, The Ohio State University Mershon Center, The Ohio State University National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress The following donors have provided generous support for the American Folklore Society’s 2008 Annual Meeting: Kentucky Arts Council Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Oral History Commission Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, Western Kentucky University Fellows of the American Folklore Society National Endowment for the Arts American Folklore Society Sections: Folk Belief and Religious Folklife; Mediterranean Studies; Music and Song; Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice; Public Programs; and Storytelling Copyright © 2008 The American Folklore Society. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher. TABLE OF CONTENTS AFS Editors, Committees, and Prize Recipients........................................ iv AFS Sections and Conveners................................................................ix AFS Legacy Council Members................................................................x AFS Life Members...............................................................................xi AFS Fellows.......................................................................................xii General Information...........................................................................xiii Hyatt Regency Hotel Louisville.............................................................xvi Program Summary.............................................................................xvii Program Schedule...............................................................................1 Abstracts of Plenary Addresses.............................................................41 Abstracts of AFS Section-Sponsored Special Presentations........................43 Abstracts of Professional Development Sessions......................................44 Abstracts of Organized Sessions...........................................................46 Abstracts of Individual Presentations.....................................................58 Index of Presenters.........................................................................119 List of Exhibitors..............................................................................129 AFS EDITORS, COMMITTEES, AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS PUBLICATIONS AND EDITORS Journal of American Folklore Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro, Texas A&M University Editorial Assistant Jesse L. Rester, Texas A&M University Editorial Board Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University Pertti Anttonen, University of Helsinki Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas, San Antonio Susan G. Davis, University of Illinois Beverley A. Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland Deborah Kapchan, New York University Martha Norkunas, University of Texas, Austin John W. Roberts, The Ohio State University Review Editors Books: Jill Terry Rudy, Brigham Young University Exhibitions and Events: Tina Bucuvalas, Florida Folklife Program Films and Videotapes: D. Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas Sound Recordings: C. Kati Szego, Memorial University of Newfoundland AFS News Maria Teresa Agozzino, Editor AFS Web Site (www.afsnet.org) Timothy Lloyd, Editor Jeff Borisch, Web Manager STANDING COMMITTEES Membership Committee Margaret Yocom, Chair Jason Baird Jackson Ray Cashman Ruth Olson Tim Evans Patricia Sawin Lisa Gabbert Daniel Wojcik Nominating Committee Mario Montaño, Chair Guha Shankar Solimar Otero Juwen Zhang iv AFS EDITORS, COMMITTEES, AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS Publications Committee Judy McCulloh, Chair Andy Kolovos Erika Brady John Laudun Ann Hoog Moira Smith AD HOC COMMITTEES Cultural Diversity Task Force Marilyn White, Chair Enrique Lamadrid Katherine Borland Rebecca Morse Olivia Cadaval Solimar Otero Xochitl Chavez Guillermo de los Reyes Norma E. Cantú Jan Rosenberg Debora Kodish Cynthia Vidaurri International Issues Committee Timothy Tangherlini, Chair Lauri Harvilahti Maria Teresa Agozzino Merrill Kaplan Mark Bender Dorothy Noyes JoAnn Conrad Dan Sheehy Lee Haring Mbugua wa-Mungai WORKING GROUPS Annual Meeting Working Group C. Kurt Dewhurst Barbara Kirshenblatt- Teresa Hollingsworth Gimblett Michael Ann Williams Folklore and Health Policy Working Group David Hufford, coordinator Diane Goldstein Erika Brady Michael Owen Jones Mariana Chilton Bonnie O’Connor Graduate Student Working Group Sheila Bock, coordinator Lynne McNeill Nelda Ault Willow Mullins Rachel Gonzalez Retired Members Working Group Lee Haring Elliott Oring Rosan Jordan Polly Stewart v AFS EDITORS, COMMITTEES, AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES DELEGATE Lee Haring, Brooklyn College NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE REPRESENTATIVE Timothy Lloyd, AFS WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION REPRESENTATIVE Sandy Rikoon, University of Missouri AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY ARCHIVAL LIAISON Randy Williams, Utah State University AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY LIAISONS Elaine Eff (Oral History Association) Camilla Mortensen (Modern Language Association) Margaret Yocom (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY PRIZE COMMITTEES AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award Cristina Bacchilega Patricia A. Turner Benjamin A. Botkin Prize Elaine Thatcher, Chair Sue Eleuterio Peter Bartis Timothy H. Evans Kathleen Condon Zora Neale Hurston Prize Marilyn White, chair Américo Paredes Prize Dan Sheehy, Chair AFS PRIZE RECIPIENTS AFS 1989 Centennial Awardees for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Roger D. Abrahams Linda Dégh vi AFS EDITORS, COMMITTEES, AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS AFS 1989 Centennial Awardees for Lifetime Public Service Archie Green Bess Lomax Hawes AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award Recipients W. F. H. Nicolaisen (2002) Linda Dégh (2004) Don Yoder (2006) AFS Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership Edward D. Ives (2003) Roger D. Abrahams (2005) Elaine J. Lawless (2007) Benjamin A. Botkin Prize Recipients (For outstanding achievement in public folklore) Bess Lomax Hawes (1994) Archie Green (1995) Jane Beck (1996) Dan Sheehy and Joe Wilson (1997) Jim Griffith (1998) Richard Kurin (1999) Bob Fulcher (2000) Hal Cannon (2001) Robert Baron and Nick Spitzer (2002) Alan Jabbour (2003) Jens Lund (2004) James Leary (2005) Elaine Thatcher (2006) Steve Zeitlin (2007) Zora Neale Hurston Prize Recipients (For outstanding student work on African American folklore) Edward Lessor (1996) Krista Thompson (1997) Peter J. Brownlee (1998) Patrick A. Polk (2000) Amy McKibbin (2001) Antony Cherian and Mark Westmoreland (2002) Wanda Addison (2003) Quan Lateef (2004) Scott Edmondson (2005) Tracy Carpenter (2007) vii AFS EDITORS, COMMITTEES, AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS Américo Paredes Prize Recipients (For outstanding engagement with the communities one studies, and/or encouragement of students and colleagues to study their home communities) William A. Wilson (2002) Norma E. Cantú (2003) C. Kurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell (2004) Enrique Lamadrid (2005) The “El Río” Project (2006) Barre Toelken (2007) Chicago Folklore Prize Recipients, 1998- (for the best folklore book of the year) 1998: Jane Sugarman. Engendering Song: Singing and the Social Order at Prespa Albanian Weddings (University of Chicago Press); and Regina Bendix. In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies (University of Wisconsin Press) 1999: Susan Slyomovics. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press); and Harold Scheub. Story (University of Wisconsin Press) 2000: Glenn Hinson. Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (University of Pennsylvania Press); and John D. Niles. Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2001: Daniel W. Patterson. A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver (University of North Carolina Press) 2002: Linda Dégh. Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre (Indiana University Press) 2003: Bill C. Malone. Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class (University of Illinois Press) 2004: Enrique R. Lamadrid. Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption (University of New Mexico Press); and Barre Toelken. The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Utah State University Press) 2005: Marcia Gaudet. Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America (University Press of Mississippi) 2006: Jo Farb Hernández. Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain (University Press of Mississippi) 2007: Cristina Bacchilega. Legendary Hawai’i and the Politics of Place: Translation, Translation, and Tourism (University of Pennsylvania Press); and James P. Leary. Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music (Oxford University Press) viii AFS SECTIONS AND CONVENERS AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY SECTIONS AND CONVENERS African Folklore, David Samper Archives and Libraries, Michael Taft Association of African and African-American Folklorists, Marilyn White Baltic Folklore, Guntis Smidchens British Folk Studies, Thomas A. McKean and Stephanie Smith Chicano and Chicana, Mario Montaño and Rachel Gonzalez Children’s Folklore, John McDowell Computer Applications, Mark Glazer Dance and Movement Analysis, Stephanie Smith Eastern Asia Folklore, Fariha Khan and Eric Mortensen Folk Arts, Martha Sims Folk Belief and Religious Folklife, Leonard Norman Primiano and Margaret Kruesi Folklore and Creative Writing, Margaret Yocom and Andrea Graham Folklore and Education, Luc Guglielmi and Carol Spellman Folklore and Literature, Rachel Gholson Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, y Caribeño, Maria Carmen Gambliel and Mintzi Martinez-Rivera Folklore and Oral History, Kathryn Wilson Folk Narrative, Janferie J. Stone Foodways, Eve Jochnowitz Graduate Students, Sheila Bock and Willow Mullins History and Folklore, Simon J. Bronner Independent Folklorists, Susan Eleuterio and Karen Miller Jewish Folklore and Ethnology, Simon J. Bronner Journals and Serials, Erika Brady Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer and Allies, Eileen Condon and Mickey Weems Medieval Folklore, Judith Lanzendorfer Mediterranean Studies, Luisa Del Giudice Music and Song, Stephen Winick Newfolk@AFS, Camille Bacon-Smith Nordic Folklore, Jim Leary Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice, William Westerman Public Programs, Christina Barr, Mike Luster, and Amy Mills Space, Place, and Landscapes, Katherine Roberts Storytelling, Jo Radner and Lee-Ellen Marvin Visual Media, Sharon Sherman Women’s, Linda J. Lee and Jeana Jorgensen ix AFS LEGACY COUNCIL MEMBERS AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY LEGACY COUNCIL MEMBERS Roger D. Abrahams Judy McCulloh Jane Beck Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Bob Bethke Dorothy Noyes Jan and Judy Brunvand Elliott Oring Peggy Bulger Maida Owens John Dorst Jo Radner Diane Goldstein Susan Roach Lee Haring Polly Stewart Joyce A. Ice Elaine Thatcher Bill Ivey Kay Turner Jane and Michael Owen Jones Patricia A. Turner Rosan Jordan and Frank deCaro Margaret Yocom Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Steve Zeitlin Elaine J. Lawless and Sandy Rikoon Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt and Barbara and Timothy Lloyd Isaac Jack Lévy William B. McCarthy Members of the AFS Legacy Council have made planned gifts—either present contributions or future pledges—to the Society’s Endowment Fund, thereby helping to sustain the permanence and strength of the Society and the field. To discuss a planned gift to the Society’s endowment, please contact Timothy Lloyd, Executive Director, AFS, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, 1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201-2602 USA; phone 614/292-3375; fax 614/ 292-2407; e-mail [email protected]. x
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