On Cultural Appropriation
I am happy to note that my article “On Cultural Appropriation” has now been published in the Journal of Folklore Research. Right now, the article can be found…
Author: Jason Baird Jackson
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings, 1990-1994
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual meetings of the American Folklore Society.…
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings of the 1980s
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and films were presented during the decade…
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community Recognized with Book Prizes
The annual business meeting of the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) was held today and one of its key moments was the bestowal of the annual CMA Book…
Bamboo Basket Hampers Used by Tobacco Farmers in Nanhua County, Yunnan, China
While doing background work on FEI Xiaotong and ZHANG Zhiyi’s studies of the basketry industry(*) in Yunnan, China, my colleague W. discovered this webpage with a pair of…
Native North American Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society during the First Decade of the 20th Century (1900-1909)
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within the field of folklore studies as…
Organizing the Material So Far (Native North American Studies and AFS)
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
In the Beginning: Native North American Studies in the American Folklore Society to 1899
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American Folklore Society (AFS) through the lens…
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 2000s and 2010s
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is the presence and absence of Native…
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 1980s and 1990s
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the American Folklore Society. Please look…
And Now for the 1970s: Native North American and First Nations Folklore Studies After the Field Gets Big
Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore Society,…
The 1960s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
The 1950s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore…
The 1940s: JAF and Zumwalt’s American Folklore Scholarship
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental bits for myself looking at some…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society During the 1910s
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and presence of Native North American and…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society During the 1920s
This is a seventh post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1930s
This is a fifth post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
The 1930s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars and scholarship from the work and…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1960s
In a fourth series post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society, I pick up…
A Pack Basket Among the Lisu in Yunnan, 2004
If you click here, you will be taken to a Getty Images photograph by Zhang Peng/Light Rocket. The image shows a Lisu woman on her way to a…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the American Folklore Society: The Founding AFS Fellows
As I noted in the previous post in this series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies work within the American Folklore Society,…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1940s
Here is a second quick post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings. Here the focus in…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1950s
Update: The post below has been updated to include the previously missing 1951 program. I use strikeout and underline to show the changes. Special thanks to Tim Lloyd…
3-2-1 Launch! Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory
The pandemic slows all work beyond bare necessity, but good things can happen amid the difficulties of the present. Over the summer, with a small but mighty crew…