<hr>Contents
Acknowledgments
The Folklorist's Endeavor: An Introduction
Being or Becoming a Folklorist
Steve Zeitlin, "Rock and Word"
Daniel Peretti, "Shelfscapes"
Libby Tucker, "Travels"
Edward Hirsch, "Work Song"
Jeannie Banks Thomas, "Instructions for Installing
Blinds," "Woman, 41 (Motif GYN041)"
Steve Zeitlin, "Barbara," "Julia," "Amanda in the
Mornings". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Joanne B. Mulcahy, "'Affectionados': What My Mother
Taught Me about Language". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Mary Magoulick, "Women and Water in Senegal". . . . . . . 60
Elaine J. Lawless, "In Search of Our Mothers . . . and
Our Selves". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Fieldwork, Folk Communities, Informants . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Frank de Caro, "Oral History". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Cynthia Levee, "White Bluffs and Miss Lena". . . . . . . 112
Steve Zeitlin, "Margaret," "Cat" . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Jens Lund, "Karl and Janie". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Ted Olson, "Historical Sign" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Margaret Yocom, "Opening Camp," "Where the Living
Keep Watch," "Echo, at Lakeside,"
"In Jewelweed". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
William Bernard McCarthy, "Second Growth". . . . . . . . 130
Jeff Todd Titon, "Percy" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Teresa Bergen, from Bigfoot Stole My Husband . . . . . . 154
Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Matt Clark, "Legends, Rumors, Lore, and Revelations
(Some Incomplete) Involving Leaton Troutwine,
a Local Eccentric/Celebrity/Hero (and
Gordon's Owner)". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Steve Zeitlin, "The Storytelling Wake" . . . . . . . . . 208
Leslie Prosterman, "Rant," "Ceci," "Painting Louise
Gl¿ck". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
John Burrison, from Kamp: A Memory Novel . . . . . . . . 214
Jeannie Banks Thomas, "Shins around the Fireside
(Jig)". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
William Bernard McCarthy, "Maybelle and Sara
on the Porch" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
The Powers of Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Frank de Caro, "Ballad Girls". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Kirin Narayan, "Stella Stories". . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Steve Zeitlin, "Once Upon a Time," "Tickling the
Corpse," "Mirror" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Legend and Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Mary Magoulick, "A Cosmology of Women" . . . . . . . . . 253
Carrie Hertz, "Absent Gods". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Paul Jordan-Smith, "Glaukos," "Shadow" . . . . . . . . . 258
Danusha Goska, "The Ramayana . . . as if Sita
Mattered" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Material Traditions, Material Things. . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Holly Everett, "One of My Mothers" . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Steve Zeitlin, "The Quilters". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Laurel Horton, "Grandma Effie and the Heirloom". . . . . 308
Jo Radner, "My Great-Great Half-Uncle Horace's
Bone-Handled Jackknife" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Margaret Yocom, "The Cane" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Children, Lore, and Language . . . . . . . . . . 312
Susan Stewart, "my mother's garden," "arrowhead,"
"shadowplay," "tag," "red rover". . . . . . . . . . 314
Steve Zeitlin, "The Lulu Bird Nestles in the Daddy O
Tree," "Folksay," "The Tenderness of Swine" . . . . 318
Neil Grobman, from Lost in Redskirt Forest . . . . . . . 320
Ritual and Custom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
William Bernard McCarthy, "The Birthday Horse" . . . . . 348
Rosan Augusta Jordan, "In Praise of Bodies," "Hands
and Hearts in the Days of the Dead in Oaxaca,
Mexico" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Ted Olson, "Christmas Tree". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Steve Zeitlin, "Madhulika" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Margaret Yocom, "Eating Alone" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Norma E. Cant¿, from Caba¿uelas: A Love Story . . . . . . . 355
Worldview and Belief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Jeannie Banks Thomas, "Salem, Massachusetts,
Playground at Gallows Hill" . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Teresa Bergen, "Haints". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409