Journal of Folklore Research

Volume 36
Number 1
Numbers 2-3

CONTENTS Volume 36, No. 1January-April 1999

Articles

David Atkinson
Magical Corpses: Ballads, Intertextuality, and the Discovery of Murder

Harris M. Berger
Theory as Practice: Some Dialectics of Generality and Specificity in Folklore Scholarship

Guntis ämidchens
Folklorism Revisited

Research and Methodology Notes

Willard B. Moore
The Intersection of Folk and Fine Art

Notes and Comments

Frank de Caro
On Remus Orthography

Reviews

Contributors

CONTENTS Volume 36, Nos. 2-3May December 1999

SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE:
Cultural Brokerage: Forms of Intellectual Practice in Society

Preface

Regina Bendix and Gisela Welz
Introduction

SESSION I
Historical Trajectories: Cultural Brokerage and the Public Sector

Roger D. Abrahams
American Academic and Public Folklore: Late-Twentieth-Century Musings

Christel Köhle-Hezinger
Cultural Brokerage and the Public Sector: Response to Roger Abrahams

Hermann Bausinger
Disengagement by Engagement: Volkskunde in a Period of Change

Mary Beth Stein
How Big Is Our Subject? Brokering Disciplinary and National Cultures

SESSION II
Theorizing Practice: The Reflexive Turn in Public Folklore

Mary Hufford
Working in the Cracks: Public Space, Ecological Crisis, and the Folklorist

Gisela Welz
Folkloristics as an Interstitial Practice: Response to Mary Hufford

Wolfgang Kaschuba
Folklore and Culturalism

Regina Bendix
Time and Ourselves—the Discomforts of Reflexive Disciplinary History: Response to Wolfgang Kaschuba

SESSION III
Disciplinarity and Qualifications for Cultural Brokerage: Competing for Applied Work on the Backdrop of a Changing Academy

Robert Baron
Theorizing Public Folklore Practice—Documentation, Genres of Representation, and Everyday Competencies

Christine Burckhardt-Seebass
The Role of Expert in Public Folklore: Response to Robert Baron

Klaus and Juliana Roth
Intercultural Communication as Applied Ethnology and Folklore

Regina Bendix with Elliott Oring
The Compromises of Applying Theories in the Making: Response to Klaus Roth's Orally Delivered Paper

SESSION IV
Keywords in Cultural Brokerage

Robert Cantwell
Habitus, Ethnomimesis: A Note on the Logic of Practice

Bernhard Tschofen
The Habit of Folklore: Remarks on Lived Volkskunde and the Everyday Practice of European Ethnology after the End of Faith

Péter Niedermüller
Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Myth of Cultural Heritage: A European View

Dorothy Noyes
Provinces of Knowledge; Or, Can You Get Out of the Only Game in Town?

SESSION V
Exhibition and Festivals: The Legacy of Representational Genres

Frank J. Korom
Empowerment through Representation and Collaboration in Museum Exhibitions

Gisela Welz
Displaying Dialogues—the Contingencies of Collaboration: Response to Frank Korom

Gottfried Korff
Reflections on the Museum

Peter Tokofsky
Object and Alterity—Gottfried Korff's Theory of Display Visits Los Angeles

SESSION VI
The Future of Cultural Brokerage in a Changing Society

Charles L. Briggs
Rethinking the Public: Folklorists and the Contestation of Public Cultures

Ruth E. Mohrmann
Response to Charles L. Briggs

Konrad Köstlin
On the Brink of the Next Century: The Necessary Invention of the Present

Richard Kurin
Time Has Come Today

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