Grand Theory in Folkloristics

Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and has carried out folklore research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the other islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean. He is the author of Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Stars and Keys (IUP 2007), a collection of folktale translations from the Indian Ocean islands.

List of contents

Foreword

Michael Dylan Foster and Ray Cashman

Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century

Alan Dundes

Introduction

America's Antitheoretical Folkloristics

Lee Haring

The Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand and Local Theory in Folkloristics

Gary Alan Fine

What('s) Theory?

Margaret A. Mills

The Philology of the Vernacular

Richard Bauman

Humble Theory

Dorothy Noyes

Grand Theory, Nationalism, and American Folklore

John W. Roberts

There is No Grand Theory in Germany, and for Good Reason

James R. Dow

Responses

What Theory Is

Newton Garver

Weak Theory in an Unfinished World

Kathleen Stewart

"Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand Theory

Kirin Narayan

Disciplining Folkloristics

Charles L. Briggs

Afterwords

Reflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual Ballast

Chad Edward Buterbaugh

Ten Years After

Lee Haring

About the author

edited by Lee Haring

Product details

• Authors: Lee Haring
• Assisted by: Lee Haring (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780253024398
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02439-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Encounters: Explorations in Fo; Encounters: Explorations in Fo; Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore