Table Of Content

YEARLY TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 33 (1996) Beverly Stoeltje Career Narratives: A Window on Folklore in the Academy William A. Wilson Building Bridges: Folklore in the Academy Richard Bauman Folklore as Transdisciplinary Dialogue John Miles Foley Signs, Texts, and Oral Tradition Adrienne Lanier Seward Folklore and Liberal Learning Mark E. Workman Folklore and Freedom Margaret K. Brady Problematizing the Great Divide: Teaching Orality/Literacy Patrick B. Mullen On Being a Folklorist in an English Department: Implications for Research Polly Grimshaw A View from the Library Sandra K. Dolby Essential Contributions of a Folkloric Perspective to American Studies 266 Journal of Folklore Research Jay Mechling It is with Great Pleasure that I Recommend 66 Inta Gale Carpenter Festival as Reconciliation: Latvian Exile Homecoming in 1990 Carl Lindahl The Presence of the Past in the Cajun Country Mardi Gras William J. Thoms “Folk-Lore,” from The Atheneum, August 22, 1846 Gregory Schrempp Folklore and Science: Inflections of “Folk” in Cognitive Research Peter Tokofsky Folk-Lore and Volks-Kunde: Compounding Compounds Gillian Bennett The Thomsian Heritage in the Folklore Society (London) Sigrid Rieuwerts The Folk-Ballad: The Illegitimate Child of the Popular Ballad Laurie Kay Sommers Definitions of “Folk” and “Lore” in the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife Eric Montenyohl Divergent Paths: On the Evolution of “Folklore” and “Folkloristics” Kenneth D. Pimple The Meme-ing of Folklore YEARLY TABLE OF CONTENTS Elliott Oring Theorizing Trivia: A Thought Experiment Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Topic Drift: Negotiating the Gap between the Field and Our Name Definitions of Folklore from Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary ofF olklore, Mythology, and Legend ENCOUNTER WITH FOLKLORE Daniel J. Crowley and Magdalene L. Crowley Religion and Politics in the John Frum Festival, Tanna Island, Vanuatu REVIEW ESSAYS Dorothy Noyes New Books on Festival, Part One: Customs, Calendars, and the Problem of “American Culture” Betsy Bowden Medieval Folklore: Oxymoron No More SHORT REVIEWS Twana Narratives: Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture (Elmendorf) David W. Dinwoodie Telling Reality: Folklore Studies in Memory of Bengt Holbek (Chesnutt) Christine Goldberg Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories (Brandon) Raquel Romberg The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece (Dougherty) William Hansen 268 Journal of Folklore Research Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland (Steedly) Lee Haring Grimm’s Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic (McGlathery) Linda Dégh Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (Lim6n) John H. McDowell The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains (Irwin) George Lankford Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Iwasaka and Toelken) Linda Dégh