Dynamics Of Folklore

Index

Inde~ A Abrahams, Roger D., 136,234,294, 320-23,349 acculturation, 100 Adau,John,162,266,282 aesthetics: cultural, 90; folk, 6, 196ff., 218-35 Mrican Americans, 294-96 Almo Massacre, 410 American Folklife Center, 8, 336 Anaya, Rudolfo, 400 animal husbandry, 200 antiphony, 295 anxiety, ethnic, 325 archetype, 257, 413 architecture, vernacular, 268 archives, 336, 347, 360-80; envuonment , 365; filing system, 373-75; ownership, 375; paper, 365; permissions , 374; protection ofdecorum, 366-67; protection (ethical), 366-72; protection from the law, 370-72; protection from libel, 369; protection of occupation, 367-68; protection (physical), 363-66; protection of ritual secrecy, 368-69; release forms, 376; retrieval, 372-75; tapes in, 364 art, cultural, 277 artist, folk, 220ff. audience, 136-52; bystander, 139; central , 139; cultural, 139; outsider, 139 ~ ballads, 41, 44, 47 "Ballad War," 3 barns, 41 basket (as folksong), 188, 190 beadwork (Tututni), 192 Bear River Massacre, 410 Beowulf, 211,214,396 "Beulah Land" (song), 406 Bierhorst, John, 251, 257 Bigfoot (Sasquatch, Yoho, Yeahoh, Yahoo), 211 Black Elk, 49, 349 Blessing Way (Navajo ceremony), 338 Bly, Robert, 414 Boas, Franz, 253 boatmakers, 231 bon (obon), 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 bow and arrow (Navajo), 287, 288 (photo), 289 brainwaves, analysis of, 263 Briggs, Charles L., 341 Brown, Joseph Epes, 49, 349 Brunvand, Jan Harold, 117-18,389 Bushnell, Clif (traditional singer), 211, 213,214 butchering, 200 C. call-and-response, 294, 300 cameras, 355-56 Campbell, Joseph, 257, 413 cante-fable,175-78 castrated boy (legend), 326-28 Cayo, Hermogenes, 349 Ceremony (Silko), 399 Changing Woman (Navajo deity), 240, 276 4'34 IND£)( chain letters, 44 "Cherry Tree Carol" (Child #54),24749 cherry (virginity), 248, 250 Christensen, Chris (whittier), 184-85; 186-87 (photos) codes: artistic, 293; in language, 263 cold feet, 76 collaboration, 341 collecting, 347 collector, 348 colors, food, 173 competence, technical, 34 "conflict model," 294 connotation, 241-60; cultural differences in,243 conservatism, 39, 42 context, 55, 56, 134, 266-71, 275-76 control, tribal, 339 cooking, folk, 200-201 Cornett, Chester (chairmaker), 230, 349 crocheting, 201 Coyote stories, 118-33, 159-63,207-8, 228-29,233-34,338,352,378 Cultee, Charles (Kathlamet Chinook narrator), 178, 253 cultural orientation, 277 cultural selection, 43 curanderismo (folk medicine), 296-97, 300 custom, 77ff., 185 customary folklore, 9 customs, courting, 250 D Darnton, Robert, 402 dead baby jokes, 322 decorum, community, 234 deerskin, sacred, 287 deference, traditional, 196 Degh, Linda, 341 deportment, cultural, 272, 277 detritus, 3 "The Dream" (Navajo joke), 24-28 dreams, 25-27 Dorson, Richard, 211, 349, 350 "Double Wedding Ring" (quilt), 140 Dow, James, 362 "Down-the-Road" Dugan, 68, 72 dowsing, 146, 147, 148-50 "dozens," 151,294-95 dramatization, connotative, 258 dulcimer, 141 dumb blonde jokes, 326, 329 Dundes, Alan, 6, 32, 270, 273, 320-23, 327 dyad,57 dyes, herb, 284 dynamism, 40, 42, 48£ Easterwood, T. J., 406 education (and folklore), 418-21 Edwards, Jonathan, 411, 412 elephant jokes, 320-22 "emotional core," 137 "Epic Laws" (Olrik), 395 epitaphs, 102-8 esoteric-exoteric factors, 323 ethnicity Oapanese American), 79-101 ethnocentrism, Navajo, 301 event, ethnic, 170 event, traditional, 157-79 Evers, Larry, 341 evil eye, 296 eye contact, 243, 272 f Falassi, Alessandro, 6 family, 101-9; ethnic, 103; "horizontal," 101; immediate, 101; "vertical," 102 "Farmer's Curst Wife" (Child #278), 329 "Fatal Flower Garden" (song), 215 Festival ofAmerican Folklife, 336 festivals, 425-26 fieldwork, 335, 347-59; ethics in, 348; equipment for, 352-56; propriety in, 353; rapport, 351-52; survey concept in, 357; tactics in, 349-53 Fife, Austin and Alta, 361 Fife Folklore Archives (Utah State Universiry ), 361, 377-80 filming, hypothetical, 163ff. film (in archives), 364 Finn, Benjamin Franklin "Huckleberry" (Munchausen), 144 fIrefIghters, 77, 78, 210 Fischer, David Hackett, 170, 402 The Fixer (Malamud), 216 Foley, John Miles, 117 folk art, 219ff. folk groups, 37, 47,56,57,58 folk language, 22 folk logic, 23 folk medicine, 201 folklore: approaches to, 4-5; characteristics of, 31-37; process of, 34; schools of, 1,4 "folkloric metaphor," 398 "folkloric mode," 398 folklorist: academic, 335; intentional, 316,333-37; trained, 334; unintentional , 333, untrained, 334 folksongs, 185,205-6; children's, 42; logger, 352; obscene, 42 folktale, 41, 203, 268; African American, 350 food lore, 79ff. food preservation, 200 foreboding, 76 Foster, John Wilson, 117-18 foxfrre, 259 Foxfrre (project), 334 Freud, Sigmund, 413 Friedman, Albert B., 220 "friend-of...