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			john h. mcdowell
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			NAME: John Holmes McDowell DATE OF BIRTH: September 24, 1946 PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C. PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: Folklore Institute Indiana University 504 N. Fess Bloomington, IN 47401 (812) 855-1027; 855-0390

			CURRENT POSITION:

			Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University Director, Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America, Indiana University

			EDUCATION:

			1975	Ph.D. Anthropology (Folklore). University of Texas, Austin.
				Major: Folklore Minors: English literature and linguistics.
			1969	B.A. Music. Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

			MAJOR PRIZES AND AWARDS:

			2006 "Pioneer Village and Virtual Outdoor Museum Website: Indiana University New Frontiers in the Humanities
			"Inti Raymi: Runa Festival of Cleansing and Renewal: Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Institute
			2004 Named Fellow of the American Folklore Society
			2001	National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division.
				“Tales On-Line: An Electronic Database of Folk Narrative.” Indiana University Intercampus Research Fund. “Hungarian-American Consciousness.”
			1997	Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University
			1994	John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
				“Poetry and Violence on Mexico’s Costa Chica.”
			1988-90	National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretive Research.
				"Hispanic Folk Poetry in Performance."
			1987-88	Fulbright Lectureship in Ghana, West Africa.
			1978-79	Chicago Folklore Prize for Children's Riddling,
			1979	Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (Colombia).
				(Indiana University Press, 1979)

			EDITORIAL:

			2006-	Editor, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
			1990-95	Editor, Special Publications of the Folklore Institute
			and 1999-

			1986-92	Editor, Journal of Folklore Research

			DISSERTATION:

			1975	The Speech Play and Verbal Art of Chicano Children:
				An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study. University of Texas, Austin.

			MEDIA PRODUCTIONS:

			2005	"Folklore of Student Life." A Web site created with IU students.
			2004	"Brass Bands of Guerrero." Video Documentary .(re-mastered and re-edited from 1992 version).
			2002	“Sibundoy Verbal Art.”
				Web production for the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas, Austin. Five sample performances in Inga and Kamsá, with audio files and companion transcripts.
			2001	“La Pasión de Cristo”:
				Easter Passion Play in El Treinta, Guerrero.” Folklore on Video, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, a 14-minute video. (With Patricia Glushko).
			2000	“Corridos of the Costa Chica,” a 70-minute CD.
			1992	"Brass Bands of Guerrero." Folklore on Video, Folklore Institute,
				Indiana University, a 30-minute video. (with Patricia Glushko).
			1991	"Que Me Troven un Corrido" ("Write a Corrido for Me").
				One-hour video. Indiana University Television. (With Patricia Glushko).

			MUSEUM EXHIBITION:

			2001-02	“Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America.”
				At the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University. (With Pravina Shukla).

			PUBLICATIONS:

			Books

			2000	Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica
				University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and Folklore and Society Series.
			1994	"So Wise Were Our Elders": Mythic Narratives of the Kamsá.
				University Press of Kentucky.
			1989	Sayings of the Ancestors:
				The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. University Press of Kentucky.
			1979	Children's Riddling. Indiana University Press.

			Edited Books and Volumes

			2001	Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America.
				INARI Press, Bloomington. (With Pravina Shukla).
			1996	Stith Thompson’s A Folklorist’s Progress:
				Reflections of a Scholar’s Life. Publications of the Folklore Institute, v. 5.
			1992	Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence.
				Indiana University Press. (with Robert Dover and Katharine Seibold).
			1987	Andean Musics. Andean Studies Occasional Papers, v.3.
				Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University.

			Articles

			2007	“Corridos of 911: Mexican Ballads as Commemorative Practice.” In J. Martin
				Daughtry and Jonathan Ritter (eds.), Music in the Post-9/11 World. Routledge, Inc.
			2006	“Sibundoy.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife, (ed.)
				William Clements. V 4: North and South America. Greenwood: Westport, CT, pp.
				229-235.
				“Speech play.” In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication. Leila
				Monaghan and Jane Goodman (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Reprint of 1988
				article).
			2005	“Chante Luna and the commemoration of actual events,” Western Folklore 64:39-64.
			2004	"Performance: Antropologia de la oralidad." In Proceedings from Oral Improvisation
				in the World: Intercultural Meetings. Donostia, Spain, pages 157-174.
			2003	“Características del discurso narrativo en Inga.” (“Characteristics of narrative
				discourse in Inga”). With Francisco Tandioy. CILLA I Proceedings: Conference on
				Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Pages 1-11.
				“In the convivial glow.” Resound: A Quarterly of the Archives of Traditional Music
				22: 1-7.
			2002	“From expressive language to my themes: meaning in mythic narratives.”
				In Myth, A New Symposium. William Hansen and Gregory Schrempp (ed.). Indiana University Press, pp. 29-45.
				Interview. In Voicing Folklore: Careers, Concerns and Issues. A Collection of Interviews. M.D. Muthukumaraswamy. National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India, pp. 48-55.
			2001	“Return of the first people,” in Dancing the Ancestors:
				Carnival in South America. INARI Press, Bloomington, pp. 1-12.
			2000	“Collaborative ethnopoetics: the view from the Sibundoy Valley.”
				In Translating Native American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking, Marta de Gerdes, Kay Sammons, and Joel Sherzer (ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pages 211-232.
			1999	“Exemplary ancestors and pernicious spirits:
				Sibundoy concepts of cultural evolution.” Revised and reprinted in Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. Margaret MacDonald (ed.), pp. 513-521. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
				“Transmission of children’s folklore.” In Children’s Folklore: A Sourcebook. Reprinted by Utah State University Press.
				“Play.” The New Book of Knowledge. Grolier, pp. 333-4.
			1998	“Native American Traditions (South).”
				In Translating Oral Tradition, pp. 162-73. John Miles Foley (ed.). New York: Modern Language Association.
				“What is Myth?” Folklore Forum 29: 79-81.
				“Corrido.” Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, pp. 144-6. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg (ed). ABC-CLIO.