Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy

Cantwell, Robert

doi:10.1353/jaf.2001.0052

jaf

2001

DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2001.0052

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Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy

Robert Cantwell¹

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Wild Grasses and New Arks: Transformative Potential in Applied and Public Folklore

Westerman¹

2006

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This article concerns the possibilities for developing a public folklore practice concerned with social transformation. Using basketry as an extended metaphor for the complexity of the artistic process and the ways folklorists and artists can collaborate and interact, the article is divided into two sections. In the first, several examples are offered from the author's fieldwork with immigrants, prisoners, and internal migrants, discussing the social functions that basket weaving serves in various communities. The second section outlines the different types of social change that the arts can bring about through collaborative efforts, from individuals and small communities to society at large.

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Wild Grasses and New Arks: Transformative Potential in Applied and Public Folklore

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Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”

McDonald¹

2020

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In 2008, five affiliates of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were convicted of conspiring to supply "material support" to the terrorist organization Hamas. One of the convicted was a folksinger, included in the indictment due to a series of music performances given at HLF fundraisers. In this article, I critically interrogate the history and development of the HLF trial, arguing for the development of an activist-oriented critical folkloristics as a powerful tool with which to respond to Islamophobic discourses at the heart of the American "War on Terror.

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Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy

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Wild Grasses and New Arks: Transformative Potential in Applied and Public Folklore

Wild Grasses and New Arks: Transformative Potential in Applied and Public Folklore

Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”

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