I am very pleased to share news of a new publication. It is an article appearing now in the Journal of American Folklore: Jackson, Jason Baird. “Collaborative Work…
If you are an academic author or aspire to be one, I hope that you will check out the series organized by Ilana Gershon and published on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here I am sharing this important announcement from the American Folklore Society. I will continue to be involved in work towards the 2020 and 2022 AFS Annual Meetings,…
The following is a report on The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies (第七届中美民俗学与非物质文化遗产论坛: 博物馆民俗与遗产研究的协作工作). …
With notices going out from the Program Committee this week, the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting (November 29-December 3, 2017) is coming into focus. Notes that I am…
On behalf of the Council for Museum Anthropology, I am happy to pass along the call for proposals for the Museum Anthropology Futures conference in Montreal this May.…
Unfinished Stories: Folklife and Folk Narrative at the Gateway to the Future The 2016 Joint Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Folk Narrative…
I really enjoyed listening to the new Anthropod podcast on open access in anthropology. Focusing on the move of Cultural Anthropology to an open access model, hosts Bascom…