Folklore Ph.D. Exam
Texts
1. Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography, James Clifford & George Marcus,
eds.
2. Women Writing Culture, Ruth Behar & Deborah Gordon, eds.
3. Woman, Native Other, Trinh T. Minh-ha
4. People Studying People, Robert A. Georges & Michael O. Jones
5. Toward New Perspectives in Folklore, Richard Bauman & Americo Peredes, eds.
6. Number Our Days, Barbara Myerhoff
7. Story, Performance & Event, Richard Bauman
8. Verbal Art as Performance, Richard Bauman
9. Diversities of Gifts, Ruel Tyson, James L. Peacock, & Daniel Patterson, eds.
10. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent, Rosemary Zumwalt
11. The Theory of Oral Composition: History & Methodology, John Miles Foley
12. The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord
13. Folklore & Literature: Rival Siblings, Bruce Rosenberg
14. Handmaidens of the Lord, Elaine J. Lawless
15. Holy Women, Wholly Women, Elaine J. Lawless
16. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert Emerson, Rachel Fretz & Linda Shaw
17. Deep Down in the Jungle, Roger Abrahams
18. African Folklore in the New World, Roger Abrahams
19. On the Nature of Fairy Tales, Max Lüthi
20. Fictions of Feminist Ethnography, Kamela Visweswaran
21. Mama Lola, Karen McCarthy Brown
22. Mules & Men, Zora Neale Hurston
23. Handbook of American Folklore, Richard Dorson
24. American Folklore, Richard Dorson
25. The Dynamics of Folklore, Barre Toelken
26. The Hero of A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
27. African American Proverbs in Context, Sw. Anand Prahlad
28. I Heard It Through The Grape Vine: Rumor in African-American Culture, Patricia Turner
29. The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation, Dennis Tedlock
30. Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia, Anthony Cavender
31. All That is Native and Fine, David Whisnant
32. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folklore, Joan Radner, ed.
33. Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore, Susan Hollis, Linda Pershing, & M. Jane Young,
eds.
34. The Sacred Hoop, Paula Gunn Allen
35. Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong
36. Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture, Robert Cantwell
37. George Magoon and the Down East Game War, Edward Ives
38. Women’s Folklore, Women’s Culture, Rosan Jordan & Susan Kalčik
39. The Terror That Comes in the Night, David Hufford
40. Following Tradition, Simon Bronner