In this Issue

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Elaine J. Lawless
pp. 241-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0074
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Articles

An American Folk Opera? Triangulating Folkness, Blackness, and Americaness in Gershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess

Ray Allen
pp. 243-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0068
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Diaspora by Degree: Narrative and Performance in Interviews of Expatriates from Wanganui, New Zealand

Suzanne P. MacAulay
pp. 262-287
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0076
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"Unsubstantiated Belief": What We Assume as Truth, and How We Use Those Assumptions

Margaret Randall
pp. 288-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0079
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Notes

American Folklore Society Recommendations to the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore

American Folklore Society
pp. 296-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0080
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The Politics of Origins: Collective Creation Revisited

Valdimar Tr Hafstein
pp. 300-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0073
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Letter from Ole Bull to Sara Thorp

Jeff Todd Titon
pp. 316-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0082
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Dialogues

On the Politics of the Politics of Origins: Social (In)Justice and the International Agenda on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore

J. Sanford Rikoon
pp. 325-336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0081
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Critical Historiography of the Present: A Response to "Looking Back, Moving Forward" by Peggy Bulger

Jessica M. Payne
pp. 337-343
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0078
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Response to "Critical Historiography of the Present" by Jessica Payne

Peggy A. Bulger
p. 344
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0070
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A Response from the Classroom to Margaret Randall's AFS Address

Katherine Borland
pp. 345-348
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0069
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Rethinking Theory in Practice: Response to Margaret Randall's AFS Address

Adriana Cruz Manjarrez
pp. 349-352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0072
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Testimonies of the Disappeared: A Response to Margaret Randall's AFS Address

Elaine J. Lawless
pp. 353-356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0075
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Obituaries

Hamish Henderson (1919-2002)

W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Margaret A. Mackay
pp. 357-358
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0077
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Contributors

Information about Contributors

pp. 359-360
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0071
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