Journal of Folklore Research

Volume 33
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CONTENTS Volume 33, No. 1January-April 1996

Special Issue
Folklore in the Academy: The Relevance of Folklore to Language and Literature Departments
Beverly J. Stoeltje
Career Narratives: A Window on Folklore in the Academy

William A. Wilson
Building Bridges: Folklore in the Academy

Richard Bauman
Folklore as Transdisciplinary Dialogue

John Miles Foley
Signs, Texts, and Oral Tradition

Adrienne Lanier Seward
Folklore and Liberal Learning

Mark E. Workman
Folklore and Freedom

Margaret K. Brady
Problematizing the Great Divide: Teaching Orality/Literacy

Patrick B. Mullen
On Being a Folklorist in an English Department: Implications for Research

Polly Grimshaw
A View from the Library

Sandra K. Dolby
Essential Contributions of a Folkloric Perspective to American Studies

Jay Mechling
It Is with Great Pleasure That I Recommend . . .

Review Essay

Dorothy Noyes
New Books on Festival, Part One: Customs, Calendars, and the Problem of "American Culture"

Short Reviews

Contributors

Errata

CONTENTS Volume 33, No. 2May-August 1996

Articles

Inta Gale Carpenter
Festival as Reconciliation: Latvian Exile Homecoming in 1990

Carl Lindahl
The Presence of the Past in the Cajun Country Mardi Gras

Encounters with Folklore

Daniel J. Crowley and Magdalene L. Crowley
Religion and Politics in the John Frum Festival, Tanna Island, Vanuatu

Review Essay

Betsy Bowden
Medieval Folklore: Oxymoron No More

Short Reviews

Contributors

CONTENTS Volume 33, No. 3September-December 1996

Special Issue:
A Forum on The Term "Folklore"

Introduction

Articles

William J. Thoms
"Folk-Lore," from The AthenÊum, August 12, 1846

Gregory Schrempp
Inflections of "Folk" in Cognitive Research

Meditations

Peter Tokofsky
"Folk-Lore" and "Volks-Kunde": Compounding Compounds

Gillian Bennett
The Thomsian Heritage in the Folklore Society (London)

Sigrid Rieuwerts
The Folk-Ballad: The Illegitimate Child of the Popular Ballad

Laurie Kay Sommers
Definitions of "Folk" and "Lore" in the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife

Eric Montenyohl
Divergent Paths: On the Evolution of "Folklore" and "Folkloristics"

Kenneth D. Pimple
The Meme-ing of Folklore

Elliott Oring
Theorizing Trivia: A Thought Experiment

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Topic Drift: Negotiating the Gap between the Field and Our Name

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
Definitions of Folklore, 1959

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