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 POSITIONS:
Professor and Chair, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IU
Editor, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (online service)
EDUCATION:
1975 Ph.D. Anthropology (Folklore). University of Texas, Austin.
1969 B.A. Music. Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Special Issue Editor. With His Pistol in His Hand for Fifty Years: Folklore’s Genealogies and the Intellectual Legacy of Américo Paredes. Journal of American Folklore 125 (2012).
Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University, 2011. (With Francisco Tandioy Jansasoy and Juan Eduardo Wolf).
“Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public.” In The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives. Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla, editors. Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, no. 8. Indiana University Press, 2011, pages 323-342.
“On Committing Kamsá to Writing: Improvisations and Collaborations,” Proceedings of the First Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Actas del Primer Simposio sobre Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, pages 10-24.
"Coaxing the corrido: centering song in performance," Journal of American Folklore 23 (2010): 129-149.
"The true lineage of Juan Oso," Journal of Folklore Research 47 (2010): 325-349.
"Rethinking folklorization in Ecuador: multivocality in the expressive contact zone," Western Folklore 69 (2010): 181- 210.
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