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	C.A.R.T.S.
		Folklorists study and think a lot about the skills and knowledge of different communities of people in the United States who pass on their values, attitudes, and beliefs through crafts, stories, music, dance and celebrations.
		Folklorists document these traditions to preserve and share them with people both inside and outside the community.
		A folklorist can go into a community and visit with an individual, ask questions, and tie different traditions together in a way that may make the person think more consciously about their every day activities.
	www.carts.org /artist_wilson7.html (1912 words)

	Folkloristics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions.
		It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.
		Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folklorist (110 words)

	CNN.com - Career - In folklore we trust: Careers of tradition - February 2, 2001
		Folklorist Peggy Bulger is a prime example of a person who has found by accident what she considers to be the perfect career.
		When she graduated in 1976, folklorists were in demand amid the country's bicentennial celebrations.
		Folklorists study traditional aspects of culture, things that get passed along for generations informally through observation or oral history.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/CAREER/trends/02/02/folklore (1380 words)

	theFolklorist.com-Recommended Reading
		Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand's first book on urban legends, provides a thorough introduction to the definition, interpretation, and themes of urban folkore.
		Most academic folklorists will not be satisfied with the lack of analysis here, but they, like other readers, will be highly entertained.
		Distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, famous for his collections of 'urban legends,' offers readers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field of folklore.
	thefolklorist.com /books.htm (1456 words)

	A Folklorist Meets Hollywood
		Folklorists have been working within and around organizations for years now but are not generally well known in the business community.
		The Company felt that a Folklorist's perspective, as one who understands how knowledge is imbedded and transmitted in creative expressions and works, could lead to an even greater understanding of what qualities are important to have and maintain within their products.
		Folklorists, I believe, can obtain work as KM specialists and contribute a body of knowledge to the KM field.
	www.temple.edu /isllc/newfolk/kmdietz1.html (2119 words)

	2002 GRANT AWARDS - Leadership Initiative Grants
		The folklorist will update and expand the current database of traditional visual and performance artists, archive existing fieldwork and conduct field research on regional traditions.
		The folklorist will assess the state of the folk and traditional arts field in San Diego and implement a plan that will address the funding and professional development needs of individuals artists.
		Folklorists will be placed in four cultural institutions that serve rural and underserved regions presently challenged by demographic and cultural shifts.
	arts.endow.gov /grants/recent/02grants/Leadership.html (1658 words)

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		From the folkloristic point of view the therapeutic community is, in effect, an intense laboratory, a "field" which trades in symbolisation and communication as its method of being.
		It is for this reason that it is possible to speak in terms of a discourse of disturbance, and for a folklorist to bring insights to bear from the study of performance and display to the understanding of a particular child's difficulty.
		There is no question of a folklorist having anything like the entire insight into a child, but he or she can contribute a significant illumination which becomes part of the therapeutic team's working.
	www.pettarchiv.org.uk /folklorist.htm (1834 words)

	NYSCA : New York State Council on the Arts
		The folklorist must be employed for a minimum of three days a week.
		The programming and documentation of the folklorist should deal with diverse traditions and multiple forms of folk art, and occur in multiple venues within the organization's service area.
		Folklorists are expected to directly assist individual folk artists through such activities as initiating apprenticeships and assistance with promotion and marketing.
	www.nysca.org /public/guidelines/folk_arts/regional.htm (782 words)

	Louisiana Folklife: Acknowledgements and Credits
		Barry Jean Ancelet, Ph.D., is a folklorist and professor of Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.
		Marcia Gaudet, Ph.D., is a folklorist in the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
		Susan Roach, Ph.D., is a folklorist and Regional Folklorist for Northeast and North Central Louisiana in the Department of English at Louisiana Tech University.
	www.louisianafolklife.org /main_credits.html (1496 words)

	Australian Folk Songs: A.L.Lloyd Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Certainly my alterations to the song, if any, were involuntary, made while I was a bush worker and not while I was a conscious folklorist, so it would be very difficult to say this is a piece of spurious folklore.
		American folklorists often have an inflated notion of how good they are.
		It is a relatively new study which is only just beginning to become a science proper; but the more scientific folklore becomes, the more we find that its frame extends beyond a consideration of the poetics, of the structure of the poetry, of the structure of the melodies.
	unionsong.com /muse/songnet/reviews/lloyd (7266 words)

	Who is Leadbelly?
		While he was in the Louisiana State Prison, he met folklorist John Lomax who was traveling through the South collecting folk music.
		Lomax was a scholar and a folklorist, touring the South for the Library of Congress, collecting ballads and folk songs.
		His mentors were now Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives and Pete Seeger, son of folklorist Alan Seeger and a member of the folk group, The Weavers.
	pa.essortment.com /whoisleadbelly_rqrx.htm (1041 words)

	deseretnews.com \| It's tradition: A folklorist's life
		In most communities and cultures — certainly, the lucky ones — there are people whom folklorists call "tradition bearers." They are people who, knowingly or unknowingly, learn the methods, techniques, lifeways of their fathers; use them; and generally pass them on to their children.
		But, said folklorist Bert Wilson, who recently retired from Brigham Young University, you have to be careful not to over-romanticize the people and places of this Western agriculture tradition.
		In a keynote address at the AFS meetings, Wilson shared stories and experiences of his mother, who grew up in the little town of Riddyville in southern Idaho in "grinding poverty" that haunted her throughout her life.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595099819,00.html (1346 words)

	Folklorist Ensemble KVÍTEK Hradec Kralove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The organizer of the ensemble is The Youth and Children Centre of Hradec Kralove.
		They dedicate their time to folkloristic material of the Hradec and East-Bohemian regions.
		The ensemble, together with the Folklorist Association of the Czech Republic and the Hradec Cultural and Educational Society, is annually an organizer of the festival Rendezvous of Folklore with international participation.
	www.volny.cz /kvitek.hk/en (264 words)

	Folklorist Alan Lomax's trove goes to library \| LJWorld.com
		Washington — The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
		The purchase of the research material was made possible by the gift of an anonymous donor; the library was close-lipped about the actual cost.
		To hear folklorists talk, however, whatever the library paid is a bargain: The collection is considered to be priceless.
	www.ljworld.com /section/arts/story/165568 (780 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
		Harris's long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society today.
		Obituary writers were not exaggerating when they eulogized this celebrated middle Georgia writer as "the most beloved man in America." Only Harris's friend and admirer, Mark Twain, who died two years later, surpassed Harris in popular reputation at the beginning of the twentieth century.
		Harris's retelling of the story of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby remains one of the world's best-known folktales, and his complex legacy as a literary comedian, New South journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence modern culture in a surprising number of ways.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-525 (2438 words)

	New York Folklore Society Newsletter
		I decided to pursue a career as a folklorist when I was just eighteen years old and have worked with traditional and community cultures for over twenty years now.
		My decision to be a folklorist was precipitated by a lecture given in St. Louis in 1976 by Joe Hickerson, then the head of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress.
		From Joe I learned an amazing piece of information—people might actually PAY you a FULL-TIME SALARY to be a folklorist! A year later I came to Washington to intern at the Archive, and was lucky to arrive in DC at a time when the field of public sector folklore was burgeoning.
	www.nyfolklore.org /pubs/news/nlfw98/condon.html (618 words)

	Florida Folklorists
		Not only was she Florida’s first state folklorist, she was one of the only employees during the program’s first years.
		Anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston first worked for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1935 when she accompanied folklorist John Lomax on his first Florida fieldwork expedition.
		She began her Florida work as a contract folklorist with the FFP on the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, and served as the first folklorist with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
	www.floridamemory.com /Collections/folklife/folklorists.cfm (1905 words)

	Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Río Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection, 1940
		Linguist and folklorist Juan Bautista Rael, highly regarded for his pioneering work in collecting and documenting the Hispano folk stories, plays, and religious traditions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, was born on August 14, 1900, in
		Famous for its spectacular setting north of Taos, the village lies in a deep, narrow valley between Taos mountain and the gorge of the Rio Grande to the west.
		What became clear in his post-secondary studies is that he was much more attracted to literature, philology, and the emerging disciplines of linguistics and folklore.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/rghtml/rgrael.html (880 words)

	j. - Folklorist looks at ‘soul of Judaism’ through story
		Diane Wolkstein’s “Treasures of the Heart,” subtitled “Holiday Stories that Reveal the Soul of Judaism,” is an original and perceptive interpretation of Jewish holidays and the biblical stories that reveal their deepest meanings.
		That said, “Treasures of the Heart” is a book of real power by a noted folklorist whose impressive scholarship will bring the reader back to the Bible, to read or reread, debate and ponder.
		A teacher of mythology at New York University, Wolkstein is co-founder of the New York Storytelling Center and the author of 21 books on folklore.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23595/format/html/displaystory.html (623 words)

	Folklorist's recordings given to local library :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah
		The Folk Arts Program of the Utah Arts Council and the Sanpete County Travel and Heritage Council are giving Mt. Pleasant a special gift this holiday season.
		They have donated 46 cassette recordings by folklorist Jens Lund to the Mt. Pleasant Library.
		Lund interviewed a number of local artists and historians about the traditions and lifestyle of Sanpete County residents.
	www.heraldextra.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=43724&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1087 words)

	Folklore: William Alexander Clouston , folklorist: introduction and bibliography
		He was not an anthropological folklorist and, above all, he did not theorise about folklore nor take part in the controversy over the nature, origin and diffusion of folktales, which was such a conspicuous feature in folklore journals and congresses in the last two decades of the century (Dorson 1968a, 202-265 (esp. 218) and 298-307).
		He praised him for bringing "within the sphere of folklore science two species of oral narratives..., the romance of the East and the humble jest" (ibid., 263).
		While it might not be strictly true, as Hartland claimed in his "Obituary," that he did not enquire into the origin of the narratives that interested him, it is certainly true that he did not investigate their meaning.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_3_115/ai_n8586207 (1163 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- UC Berkeley folklorist dead of heart attack
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		BERKELEY – A renowned folklorist has died after suffering a heart attack while teaching a graduate seminar at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Dundes is survived by his wife of 48 years, Carolyn, of Berkeley; a son, David, of Walnut Creek; two daughters, Lauren Dundes Streiff of Owings Mills, Md., and Alison Dundes Renteln of Altadena; and six grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050401-1632-ca-obit-dundes.html (219 words)

	Professor researches folklorist - Bangornews.com Staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Eckstorm, the daughter of fur trader Manly Hardy and Emeline Freeman Wheeler, was born in Brewer in 1865.
		She corresponded with folklorists and experts in the field, leaving behind her a voluminous paper trail.
		She was a historian, a folklorist, a naturalist and a linguist." MacDougall was drawn to Eckstorm as a subject for biography partly because, "I relate to her broad interests."
	www.bangornews.com /news/templates/?a=110580&z=118 (737 words)

	Songquest - The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton - Ivan H. Walton with Joe Grimm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s.
		It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them.
		Edited by Joe Grimm, Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton is a selection from the daily journals Walton wrote during his travels as a folklore collector.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /glb/gtlakes/waltonsq.htm (264 words)

	BERKELEY / UC folklorist Dundes dies while teaching / His scholarship helped to create an academic discipline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Renowned UC Berkeley folklorist Alan Dundes died Wednesday from an apparent heart attack suffered while teaching a graduate seminar on campus.
		He was such a giant in the field that he became the subject of folklore himself.
		Dundes is survived by his wife of 48 years, Carolyn, of Berkeley; a son, David, of Walnut Creek, two daughters, Lauren Dundes Streiff of Owings Mills, Md., and Alison Dundes Renteln of Altadena (Los Angeles County); and six grandchildren.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/01/BAGLHC1NOC1.DTL (543 words)

	The Art of Retelling (Writing Children's Books, Folktales)
		But the relationship is not entirely adversarial, because the methodical-minded Folklorist happily takes on the drudge work that holds little interest for the Storyteller.
		The Folklorist loves nothing better than to search library shelves, standard references, and online catalogs for the oldest and most authentic sources of folktales.
		It is one of the greatest joys of the Folklorist to produce a detailed author note on the sources and cultural context of the story—documentation increasingly demanded and scrutinized by educators and librarians.
	www.aaronshep.com /kidwriter/A62.html (725 words)

	Florida Folklorist, Social Activist and Writer Stetson Kennedy to Speak on March 25
		Pioneering folklorist, social activist and writer Stetson Kennedy, of Jacksonville, Fla., will discuss his long and wide-ranging career and explore the theme of “Building Democracy in America” in a talk at the Library of Congress from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
		The most famous of the folklorists who worked under Kennedy’s direction was the celebrated African American novelist and playwright, Zora Neale Hurston.
		The research done by Kennedy, Hurston and others was carried out from 1937 to 1942, producing one-of-a-kind sound recordings of ordinary men and women, photographs, researchers’ notes and reports, and other documentary materials, which are now preserved at the Library of Congress.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2005/05-057.html (644 words)

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		Folklorist Kathy Kimiciek led the program from 1988-1990, and in 1996 Karen Canning became the staff folklorist for the region encompassing Wyoming, Livingston, Genesee and Orleans Counties.
		As these art forms draw their life and meaning from their communal context, a folklorist must take the time to get to know the region in which he works.
		A folklorist will research local history through libraries, historical societies, and other such public resources, but will just as importantly spend time attending community events (county fairs, town festivals), contacting village historians and community groups, and interviewing traditional artists.
	www.artswyco.org /Folk_Page.html (982 words)

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