A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography

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Index Aesop, 89 Agassiz, Louis and Alexander,53 American Folklife Center, 119.See also Federal Cylinder Project American FolkloreSociety,86 American Museum of National History , 108 Ancient Societies (Lewis Henry Morgan ), 75 Anthropological and literary folklorists , rivalry between, 3 Apache (tribe), 57 Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress), 3 Aristotle, 46 Augustine of Hippo, 46 Bacon, Alice Mabel, 85 Baker, James "Iron Head," 102 Barbeau, C-Marius, 86 Barraud, Francis, 37,129 Barraud, Mark Henry, 129 Barry, Phillips,85 Bartok, Bela, 80 Basket Dance (Hopi), 31,103 Basso, Keith, 97 Bayliss, Clara Kern, 62 Beckwith, Martha, 66 Benedict, Ruth, 3, 66 Berliner, Emile, 24 Boas, Franz, 71; advocacyof fieldwork , 67; asanthropological folklorist , 3; on Cushing, 58; influence on Bureau of AmericanEthnology use of phonograph, 74-76; influence on ethnographersusing phonograph, 66; on limitations of phonograph, 130; limited length of fieldwork trips, 68; and Mach, 68-69; nicknamed "The Fart," 102; non-evolutionary views of culture, 131; as "PapaFranz," 65; reluctance to analyze data, 130; synthesis of Romantic and scientific concerns, 66; teaching style of, 70 Boston, Mass., 55, 61 Boulton, Laura, 87 Bourke, Capt. John G., 56 Bourke, Sara, 57 Bouve, Clement, 62 "Boy with the Axe,The" (phonograph promotion), 34-35 Broadwood, Lucy, 83 Bronner, Simon,8,14, 70 Bronx Zoo, 109 Bulow, Hans von, 39 Bureau of AmericanEthnology, 56, 94, 98,100,105,130; fieldworkers ' useof phonograph, 3, 62, 131; policy regarding phonograph, 75-80; and Powell,74; support to Boas, 74 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 95,100 Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 87 Calais, Maine, 2, 54, 55 Cambridge, Mass., 56 Campos, Margarita (Cuna), 79 Cantometrics, 5 Capitol Hill, 118 Carlisle School, 101 Carpenter, Edmund, 39 149 Index Carpenter, Inta, 64 Carriere, Joseph Medard, 124 Chapman, John Wright, 131 Cherokee (tribe), 98 Child, Francis James, 3, 85 Christie, Agatha, 43 Civil War, 49 Clifford, James, 8 Columbia RecordingCompany, 25 Columbia University, 66, 69,130; anthropologists' useof phonograph , 65-70 Critical positivism, influence on early anthropologists, 68-70 Cros, Charles, 127 Crow (tribe), 99 Cuna (tribe), 79 Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 65; Boas on, 58; field technique of, 59; first director of Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 53; as performer of folktales, 58; possible first useof phonograph in ethnography, 56-58; removal as director of Hemenway Expedition, 55-56; asZuni Bow priest, 104 Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria ), 95 Cylinder recording collections (ethnographic ): "incunabula," 129; recent grassrootsinterest in, 4-5; recent scholars' poor understanding of, 5-7; as scientific data, 55; test recordings in, 129. See also Phonograph, in fieldwork Cylinder recordings (general): accuracy of, 36-39; asartifacts, 76-77; blank vs. prerecorded, 24; Edison's preference for over disc, 25; as means of retrieving past, 47; as memento mori, 15-16, 47-49; physical characteristicsof, 71; played at performer'sfuneral, 48; as record of sacred material, 104-06; superseded by disc, 25-26 Daguerreotype, 13 Daughters of the American Revolution , 14 de Angelo, Jaime,29, 34-35 Deacon, Desley, 8 Deloria, Vine, 95, 97-98 Demetraepoulou, D., 63 Densmore, Frances, 39, 87, 92, 99, 110,113,131; asked to leave Utes, 94-95; Boas on transcriptions of, 130; field procedures of, 90-91; preferencefor educated translators, 101; rate ofcompensation for performers,98; records singer despite community disapproval , 107; and RedCap, 92-93, 111,122; use of prisoner as assistant , 102; use of term "record," 6 Dictaphone, 25 Diplomats in Buckskins (HermanJ. Viola), 99 Disc recordings, introduction of, 24 Dorsey, J. Owen, 97 Dorst, John,8 DuBois, ConstanceGoddard, 87,105 DuBois, Cora, 63 Edison Diamond Disc, 24 Edison New Phonograph, 18-19 Edison Phonograph Company, 29 Edison, ThomasAlva, 128; expectations concerning useof phonograph , 1; "father of folksong study" (Bartok), 80; first response to phonograph, 11; first trial of phonograph, 32; invention of phonograph, 16-19; poor grasp of phenomenology of hearing, 27; preeminence of asinventor of 150 Index phonograph, 127; preference for cylinder over disc, 25; resistance to phonograph asentertainment, 22-23; as "wizard," 46, 50 Edwards, Charles, 122 Eisenstein, Elizabeth, 9 English Folk-Song Society, 82, 84-85 Fechner, Gustav, 12 Federal Cylinder Project (American Folklife Center), 5-6,122,124 Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 65, 80-81, 119-20,129; addresses "Mr. Phonograph," 42; appointmentas director of BAE, 56; appointment as director of Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 56; disliked by other fieldworkers, 58; earliest recordings, 53-55; early recordings of Passamaquoddy , 53-54; enthusiasm for phonograph, 55; first to use phonograph in fieldwork, 127; first use...