Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.545.05
Nora Ellen Groce
Abstract:In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can—and should— make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled “Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability,” held on March 25, 2022, I provide some examples of research that my colleagues and I have undertaken where we have brought folklore and oral history approaches to disability-related global health and international development initiatives. I discuss how this knowledge has broadened our ability to ask and answer important questions. Based on my own experience, applied folklore can provide insight and generate new questions that can improve the lives of persons with disabilities. I encourage folklorists to seek out and undertake future collaborations with researchers and community groups working to improve health and well-being around the world.
摘要：在本文中，我认为民俗学领域和民俗学家可以--也应该--为全球健康和国际发展做出更多贡献，并应更多地参与有关社会正义和人权的对话。我在美国民俗学会研究员主办的网络研讨会上应邀发表了题为 "质疑常态"（Interrogating the Normal）的评论：我在2022年3月25日举行的由美国民俗学会研究员主办的题为 "质疑常态：民俗学与残疾的接触 "的网络研讨会上应邀发表了评论，并提供了一些我和我的同事将民俗学和口述历史方法应用于与残疾有关的全球健康和国际发展活动的研究实例。我将讨论这些知识如何拓展了我们提出和回答重要问题的能力。根据我自己的经验，应用民俗学可以提供洞察力并产生新的问题，从而改善残疾人的生活。我鼓励民俗学家在未来寻求并开展与研究人员和社区团体的合作，致力于改善世界各地的健康和福祉。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.545.07
Gwendolyn Paradice
Abstract:When Gwendolyn moves across the country, they also relocate their mother— diagnosed with dementia and requiring residential care—closer to them. With their mother’s cognitive decline comes the revelation that she has forgotten the family is Cherokee, a discovery that encourages Gwendolyn to examine how they process and understand their own identities. Using the ethnographic research of James Mooney as a touchstone for explorations, Gwendolyn searches for meaning and understanding in intersections of culture, storytelling, family, language, and disability. Through braided fragments of meditation, introspection, and memory, Gwendolyn excavates and reconciles the forms of loss that dominate their thinking.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.545.06
Ann E. Millett-Gallant
Abstract:Self-Portrait: Waking Up with/to Cat Companions is a triptych composed of prismatic acrylic paint on three adjacent hexagon-shaped canvases (from left to right, 8 inches, 12 inches, and 10 inches in diameter). The central hexagon features my face, from the nose to the head, with an enlarged cat’s eye on my forehead and surrounded by blooming vines. Adjacent at each side are portraits of my cats in poses that interact with my petting, amputee hands. I blend my personal history with cats, legends about cats as fortune-tellers, and mythology about women and cats as magical soothsayers to analyze this work’s personal and folkloric significance.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.545.10
Teresa Milbrodt
Abstract:Persons outside of disability communities often have negative perceptions of disabilities, yet such beliefs may create more problems for people with disabilities than the disability itself. Folklore produced in disability communities can serve as a reaction to those misconceptions and can allow us to better understand what disability means to disabled individuals and how it affects their ways of being and interpreting the world. Folklorists undertaking such research must approach collaborators with respect, care, and background knowledge so they don’t risk reproducing harmful stereotypes. Through this disability studies lens, folklorists have an opportunity to build on and complicate our understanding of disability experiences through exploring how disabled people use folklore to (re)present their identities.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.07
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Folklorists are uniquely positioned at the nexus of historical and heritage consciousness, with a keen eye for emergent cultural practices, often ephemeral, which may draw on tradition or represent something entirely new. Collecting the present, or what has been called contemporary collecting or rapid-response collecting, is called for in anticipation of a future when the present, experienced as already historical, will have become past.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.09
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
The “Social Justice” salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore's rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked to underlying conditions of social inequality. Exploring how the skill sets and resources of folklorists can intersect with heritage frameworks to ameliorate forms of social injustice, participants delineated this emergent practice arena in the field. Discussions illuminated both the potential and perils of using heritage as a means of crisis intervention and healing.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.15
Jennie Williams
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.14
Erik Aasland
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.02
V. Hafstein
The article discusses the concepts of “folklore” and “cultural heritage” and their historical development as responses to social transformations. It compares the field of folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the present-day heritage field, highlighting the specific ways in which each field has risen to the challenges of its time and addressing their potential pitfalls. The author emphasizes the power of these concepts to shape and change the world, as they mobilize people, reform discourses, and transform practices.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.12
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
The “Anticipatory Heritage” salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. While folklore has emphasized safeguarding traditions transmitted over generations, anticipatory heritage contends that looking to the future is also needed to advance social justice, heal through remembrance, and generate greater community cultural self-determination. As was the case for participants in all of the salons, these discussions stressed the importance of a critical approach toward heritage, including interrogating who controls heritage-making and, at times, questioned the term “heritage” itself.
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