#folklorists — Public Fediverse posts

@folklore If anyone wants more info about #FolkloreWithoutBorders feel free to drop me a line #folklore #folklorists

Delighted that this is now published (open access) in TFH: The Journal of Folklore and History. It started life as a 90th birthday present for the great Jacqueline Simpson, and hopefully hasn't lost too much of the spirit that motivated it in the first place.

https://journals.psu.edu/folklorehistorian/article/view/17/17

#folklore #folklorists #folkloristics #FolkloreSociety @folklore

Well. The British government is finally ratifying the UNESCO Convention on ICH. I've always had reservations about it (conceptually, not least), but this is extremely interesting news for #folklorists.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/oh-no-it-isnt-panto-set-to-be-formally-recognised-as-uk-joins-unesco-convention #folklore @folklore

For #StoryTellers & #Folklorists of all disciplines and backgrounds: I think this is new, but seems promising.

I hope it turns into something useful for you! 😃

https://cambridgefairytalenetwork.wordpress.com/

#FairyTales #Academic #Research #StoryTelling #StoryTeller #Folklore #Mythology

📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Play in a #Covid Frame: Everyday #Pandemic #Creativity in a Time of #Isolation', edited by Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop.

During the international #coronavirus #lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach.

How did the #pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which #communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of #COVID19

#Folklorists Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop adopt a multidisciplinary approach to this phenomenon, bringing together the insights of a #geographically and #demographically diverse range of #scholars, #practitioners, and #community #activists.

Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0326

Really sorry to see that Dan Ben-Amos has died.

https://americanfolkloresociety.org/dan-ben-amos-1934-2023/

#folklore #folklorists @folklore

Hey #folklore peeps, I thought I'd have another go at searching out some of the #academic #folklorist types who tried to follow me when this instance had its little glitch a while back, as well as other lovely #folklorists who may have arrived here since.

Hit me up with suggestions...

@folklore @folklorethursday

I've pinned and reboosted my #introduction, but I thought I'd have another bash round the potted summary of hashtags as I try to reconnect with stuff lost in the past few days.

#folklore is pretty much the most important to me - I'm an #academic #folklorist, do #fieldwork, think & write about #folkloristics, and really really REALLY like hanging out with/listening to other #folklorists.

I started off with #folk, #folksong, #folkmusic, ended up doing a PhD on #ghostlore #ghosts #ghost but love/am interested in all sorts of stuff, like #cannibalism, #rats, #folkhorror

Other important things:
#surrealism #fantomas #Dowland #Classics #Berlioz

Live on #isleofwight, like at the end of Day of the Triffids.

New #introduction as the previous one disappeared!

I'm a folklorist and writer, living in North Carolina, USA. My specialty is the cultural heritage of the American South, especially the Carolinas.

I direct the North Carolina Folklife Institute (ncfolk.org), a nonprofit dedicated to folklife documentation. I also edit the Old-Time Herald (oldtimeherald.org), a magazine about traditional music of #Appalachia and related styles. I play old-time #fiddle and #banjo.

I'm currently collaborating with historian and potter Hal Pugh on a history of folk #pottery in the South, to be published in fall 2024 by @uncpress . Hal and I also research Southern folk gravestone carving.

My family goes back centuries in the Carolinas and #Cuba, and #genealogy has been a project since childhood. I collect #78rpm records, as well as old photos (mainly of the pre-WWII Southern US).

Also love #cats, #ghoststories, and #reptiles.

#South #histodons #folklorists #folklore #folklife #ceramics #Cuban

This page of curated lists of #academics on Mastodon, links to groups and discipline specific instances/communities is incredibly helpful and worth bookmarking.

It throws up a familiar problem. #Folklore, as my wonderful MA tutor Julia Bishop put it, is something of a disciplinary Golden Child, at the margins/interstices of other disciplines, which has tended to marginalise its institutional position.

I'm not surprised, then, that there isn't a dedicated list for #folklorists or a #folkloristics-based instance. I'm quite comfortable with knowing that we're out there, getting on with our stuff, in other departments. But hooking up, seeing each other - that'd be a good thing too.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

@jasonbairdjackson @johnlaudun My Folklore Society colleague @learnbyhand is around. And #folklorists definitely needs to be a thing.

#fediverse / #mastodon sightings of #folklorists: @johnlaudun and @paulcowdell Who else?

That slow process of finding my people in a new environment continues. I've noticed a few #MaterialCulture people already - I've sometimes been teased by other #folklorists about being hostile to it, although that's not true - and a few references to #FolkloreThursday over on Twitter.

As these have coincided with one of the periodic recirculations of a piece I wrote for FT about what #folklore might mean, I thought it would be worth sharing it here, too.

I guess it's just another part of my #introduction, as well, but I don't see anything wrong with that.

https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-folklorists/folklore-what-do-you-mean-and-why/