The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives

Contents

• Introduction: The Individual and Tradition
• Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
• Entering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley Potter
• Charles G. Zug
• Delight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' Art
• Marjorie Hunt
• The "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
• Richard Bauman
• Chief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All Times
• Philip M. Peek
• Place Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First Century
• Maggie Holtzberg
• A Backdoor into Performance
• Tom Mould
• The Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Bjoerkloef and Swedish Folk Costume
• Pravina Shukla
• The World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, Japan
• Takashi Takahara
• Bringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at Acoma
• Karen M. Duffy
• Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country
• Michael Robert Evans
• Navigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the Material
• Greg Kelley
• Fluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale History
• Jennifer Schacker
• Counting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious Boat
• John Laudun
• On Middle-Range Structures in Heroic Epic
• William Hansen
• The Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrath
• Ray Cashman
• Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public
• John Holmes McDowell
• David Drake: Potter, Poet, Rebel
• John Michael Vlach
• The Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish Lullabies
• Ilhan Basgoez
• Contested Performance and Joke Aesthetics
• Elliott Oring
• Vernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, Three
• Gregory Hansen
• Georgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His Work
• John A. Burrison
• Rapid Transportation
• Lee Haring
• Working Through Tradition: Rug Farming In Anatolia
• George Jevremovic
• A Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina Pottery
• Mark Hewitt
• That's Where I Came In: Henry and His Teachers
• Robert Cochran
• At the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and Tradition
• Vincent Woods
• A Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the Field
• Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
• Acknowledgments
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Contributors
• Index