Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.540.16
S. Merrell
{"title":"Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers by Tom A. Jerman (review)","authors":"S. Merrell","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.540.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.540.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48415375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.540.12
Andrea Kitta
{"title":"Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge","authors":"Andrea Kitta","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.540.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.540.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48640433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.540.07
A. Duggan
{"title":"Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women ed. by Nora Martin Peterson (review)","authors":"A. Duggan","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.540.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.540.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48684900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.540.21
S. Williams
{"title":"Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice by Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (review)","authors":"S. Williams","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.540.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.540.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45032778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.19
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.01
K. Turner, D. Christensen, J. B. Jackson, James Counts Early, A. Horowitz, Portia K. Maultsby, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, E. E. Miller, Maribel L. Alvarez, C. Benedetti, V. Bold, Tina Bucuvalas, Leigh H. Edwards, Martha González, M. Jackson, J. Jorgensen, J. Leary, J. Niles, Christine Elyse Blythe
Abstract:Drawing on conventions of the insight legend, writers have consistently framed France's Nicolas Appert as "the father of canning," celebrating him as an innovative genius who in the early 1800s realized long-standing desires for fresh-yet-stable food. However, a process nearly identical to "appertization" was widely practiced more than a century earlier. Furthermore, unlike insight legends, Appert-centered histories never identify a Eureka! moment. Instead, these origin stories exemplify the perceptive vision of modern industry itself. Discounting knowledge coded as female or lodged in specific contexts, they construct a self-consciously modern corporate hero, holding up for veneration those with the power and desire to commodify, expand, and profit within capitalist systems. As they valorize "scientific" over and against "domestic" knowledge, these narratives minimize the costs of universalizing processes and misrepresent the ways knowledge is produced and circulated.
{"title":"The Witch in Flight","authors":"K. Turner, D. Christensen, J. B. Jackson, James Counts Early, A. Horowitz, Portia K. Maultsby, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, E. E. Miller, Maribel L. Alvarez, C. Benedetti, V. Bold, Tina Bucuvalas, Leigh H. Edwards, Martha González, M. Jackson, J. Jorgensen, J. Leary, J. Niles, Christine Elyse Blythe","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.539.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.539.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on conventions of the insight legend, writers have consistently framed France's Nicolas Appert as \"the father of canning,\" celebrating him as an innovative genius who in the early 1800s realized long-standing desires for fresh-yet-stable food. However, a process nearly identical to \"appertization\" was widely practiced more than a century earlier. Furthermore, unlike insight legends, Appert-centered histories never identify a Eureka! moment. Instead, these origin stories exemplify the perceptive vision of modern industry itself. Discounting knowledge coded as female or lodged in specific contexts, they construct a self-consciously modern corporate hero, holding up for veneration those with the power and desire to commodify, expand, and profit within capitalist systems. As they valorize \"scientific\" over and against \"domestic\" knowledge, these narratives minimize the costs of universalizing processes and misrepresent the ways knowledge is produced and circulated.","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48988631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.14
M. Jackson
{"title":"Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics","authors":"M. Jackson","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.539.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.539.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49189360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.06
Phyllis M. May-Machunda
{"title":"Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies","authors":"Phyllis M. May-Machunda","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.539.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.539.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47347863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.17
John D. Niles
{"title":"The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics","authors":"John D. Niles","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.539.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.539.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43678377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.136.539.08
Maribel L. Alvarez
{"title":"James S. Griffith: Remembering \"Big Jim\" (1935–2021)","authors":"Maribel L. Alvarez","doi":"10.5406/15351882.136.539.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.136.539.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46681,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41738076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}