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Bee
Unregistered User
(5/22/02 8:23:06 pm)
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Folklorists
Hi Everyone,
I admit it -- I shamelessly lurk here a lot, mainly because I have nothing very interesting to say.
But tonight I have a question. Anyone know any sources ABOUT the early folklorists, their reasons for collecting tales, their methodology, etc.? All I can turn up so far -- and my library doesn't have it; I'm trying for interlibrary loan -- is "British Folklorists" by Richard Dorson.
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Thanks,
Bee
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catja1
Registered User
(5/23/02 9:04:27 pm)
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Re: Folklorists
Hmm. _Strange and Secret peoples_ by Carole Silver has quite a bit of info about the early folklorists. Also, _American Folklore Scholarship_ by Rosemary Zumwalt, and _The Search for Authenticity_ by Regina Bendix.
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Bee
Unregistered User
(5/27/02 4:51:58 am)
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Folklorists
Thanks so much for the suggestions, Catja! Off to the library...
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Helen
Registered User
(5/27/02 9:13:19 pm)
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Re: Folklorists
How "early" do you mean? I just saw a great biography of Sith Thompson, though I can't remember the title ... will double-check. But he's early twentieth century ... if you're trying for eighteenth, nineteenth century, more research will be required on my part before I'll be of any use. But it's a fascinating topic ... will post more once I recover from jet-lag.
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Judith
Berman
Registered User
(5/29/02 6:32:16 am)
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Re: Folklorists
This might be outside your area or time period, but there is a nice book by Barbara Babcock and Nancy Parezo, DAUGHTERS OF THE DESERT: WOMEN ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, 1880-1980, AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE which includes sections on early figures in North American folklore like Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Frances Densmore (the ethnomusicologist), Ruth Benedict (of a later generation, editor of the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE for many years), and many others.
The peculiar history of North American folklore means that many important early figures are better known as anthropologists, including Franz Boas (who was editor of JAF before Benedict), Alfred Kroeber (Ursula LeGuin's father), and Robert Lowie in addition to the women discussed in Babcock and Parezo. Also, while these scholars had some intellectual roots in European folklore, their work was almost exclusively with Native North Americans. So their biography, intellectual or otherwise, is likely to be on a different shelf in the library--
Judith
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Bee
Unregistered User
(5/30/02 5:28:27 pm)
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Folklorists
I'm interested in the Victorian female folklorists mainly, but ANY resources that people have come across are much appreciated. Thanks everyone!
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Helen
Registered User
(5/30/02 5:54:07 pm)
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Victorian female folklorists ...
Dear Bee:
I know exactly what you mean! I've been fascinated by Marian Cox Roalfe since I first found out about her work ... but there doesn't seem to be a great deal of scholarship on her life available for general consumption. I'll poke around when finals are over and see if there's anything that I can find ...
Best,
Helen
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pauline
storyteller
Registered User
(6/26/02 1:46:49 pm)
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How about Marie de France?
Hi!
This is a little earlier that the Victorian period, but at least she`s a woman, and one of the real early "folklorists", if we can call her that.
Marie de France lived in the 11th century. One doesn`t know much about her, only that her name was Marie and that she was french, but living at the English court. Qualified guessing is that she was a court maid or the kings mistress or half sisiter, etc.
The is most famous for being the first to wrote down Bisclavret. You can find some of her stories at this page:
web.english.ufl.edu/exemp...intro.html
Pauline
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Yellow
McMaggie
Registered User
(6/27/02 12:16:51 am)
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Folklorists
Perhaps check out Stith Thomspon's "The Folktale". Personally, I've been finding it to be quite helpful. The first half of the book deals with folktale types, but during the second half he primarily focuses on different aspects of folktale scholarship, such as the collecting of folktales.
Cheers!
Katie
Edited by: Yellow McMaggie at: 6/27/02 12:20:36 am
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Terri
Registered User
(6/27/02 10:41:55 pm)
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Re: Folklorists
Andrew Lang's wife was reputed to be something of a folklorist,
and apparently did quite a lot of work on his Victorian fairy book
series (The Blue Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book) etc. Does anyone
know more about her? They lived in Scotland.
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