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  • Contributors

Elissa R. Henken teaches Folklore and Celtic studies as a Professor at the University of Georgia. Her published works include two books on Welsh saints, one on the Welsh national-redeemer Owain Glyndŵr, and, most recently, Did Your Hear about the Girl Who . . .?: Contemporary Legend, Folklore, and Human Sexuality.

Isidore Okpewho is Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He has published numerous studies in oral literature and folklore, including The Epic in Africa (1979), Myth in Africa (1983), African Oral Literature (1992), and Once Upon a Kingdom (1998).

David Poveda is trained as a developmental and educational psychologist. His research interests include classroom discourse, minority education, literacy, and children's activities in informal contexts. He examines these topics by applying a number of strategies derived from the ethnography of communication and other forms of qualitative analysis.

Tok Freeland Thompson hails from the backwoods of Alaska and has logged seventeen summers at sea as a fisherman. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology (Harvard), an M.A. in Folklore, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology (both University of California, Berkeley). He is currently a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. [End Page 311]

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