Sandweiss (left), Glassie
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During a 40-year career, Henry Glassie, College Professor of
folklore at IU Bloomington, has studied the culture of traditional
communities around the world. Drawn equally to stories, music,
architecture and art, Glassie has documented his wide-ranging
fieldwork in award-winning books on life in rural Virginia,
Northern Ireland, Turkey and Bangladesh. While his work has
influenced scholars of numerous fields, Glassie sees himself
as a student—eager to learn from the people whose lives and
work he has been privileged to share. In this segment of “Conversations
online,” Glassie discusses his highly personal approach to culture,
landscape and history with Eric Sandweiss, associate professor
of history at IUB and the editor of the Indiana Magazine
of History.
Listen to the entire
conversation or listen by topic:
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Opening
• "Interviewing
is a very large part of my job."
Autobiographical sketch
• "I
was raised in an environment of time depth and spatial richness."
• "Time
as being continuous as disruptive."
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Setting and context
• Reading from "Turkish Traditional Art Today"
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"I try to unify the various parts of myself."
• "I'm
confident that what I need to do I will do."
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In Ireland and Turkey
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"People have a culture of welcome."
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"There are six days of context for every day of text."
• Passing of certain cultural phenomena • Impact
of television
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"Exciting to work with young people"
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"The change that matters to me is death."
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Closing
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