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Nov 12

Catching up with FolkPub

The student editors and publishers in the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Publications Group (a.k.a. FolkPub) have been very busy in recent months. An enterprise of the graduate students in IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, FolkPub is the publisher of the venerable journal Folklore Forum and of books under the Trickster Press imprint. Much of their work has been migrating online in recent days and I wanted to note some highlights.

Current articles and reviews–in open full-text– in Folklore Forum are appearing at a new website: http://folkloreforum.net/ . The new site offers an RSS feed, so you can easily keep up with new content in a feed reader. Earlier this year, the new site and format debuted with an issue on folklore studies in East Asia in honor of Roger L. Janelli. In recent days, several new reviews have been added to the site and new contributions are expected on a continuing basis. Several special issues are in the works.

The entire back run of Folklore Forum back to its beginnings in 1968 have been made freely and fully available in the IUScholarWorks Repository service here at Indiana University. Find the whole collection, in searchable form here.

Work on the book side continues as well. At the recent American Folklore Society meetings, the FolkPub crew were an active presence, selling backlist titles and unveilling both a new title and a new business model. They were proud to release a a new, enhanced edition of Sandra Dolby’s classic work Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative. This title returns to print re-typeset with a new preface by the author and a foreward by Richard Bauman. Unlike past Trickster Press titles, this work has been published using a Print-on-Demand approach which means that it can be offerred at modest cost, that it should be available forever and that the students will not need to worry about managing complex shipping and storage problems. Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative is available directly from Amazon.com here. Also available in this new format is Trickster Press’ best-selling textbook The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life: A Fieldguide and Sourcebook, edited by George H. Schoemaker. It too is now available via Amazon.com. Find it here.

Information on the entire Trickster Press backlist can be found on the Press’ website at: https://www.indiana.edu/~folkpub/trickster/

One Trickster Press book title has already joined Folklore Forum as an open access resource in IUScholarWorks Repository. The book The Old Traditional Way of Life: Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts edited by Robert E. Walls and George H. Schoemaker and published in 1989 can not be found in its entirity here. (Find its open worldcat record here.)

Congratulations to the current FolkPub staff on all this good work. Well-wishes go as well to FolkPub staff who served in recent years. Their efforts provided a significant foundation for present accomplishments.

Nov 3

The Art of Dress in Modern India

From an IU India Studies Press Release:

The Indiana University India Studies Program Presents:

The Art of Dress in Modern India

A faculty lecture by
Pravina Shukla
Associate Professor of Folklore
Indiana University

Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, where she teaches courses on dress, adornment, and body art, museums, food, and material culture. Her museum experience has included working at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California, and at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. Two research topics that have interested her, resulting in extensive fieldwork, exhibitions, and publications, are: carnival costumes in Brazil, and dress and body adornment in India. She is the author of The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment and the Art of the Body in Modern India (Indiana University Press, 2008.) Her current research topic is on the various cultural uses of costumes.

Two-time winner of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, Professor Shukla has lectured on material culture, dress and adornment within the United States, and also in India, Bangladesh, Canada, and Israel.

Friday, November 7th at 5:30 pm

India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street (Corner of 8th and Woodlawn)

Free and open to the public

For more information, contact the India Studies Program

(812)855-5798

http://www.indiana.edu/~isp

Nov 3

CFP: Public and Private

From a press release from the conference organizers:

IU/OSU Joint Student Conference call for papers:

We are happy to announce the 2008-2009 collaborative conference between the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association. This conference aims to create a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines, as it relates to the study of academic and vernacular interpretation of everyday life.

“Public and Private”

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
March 27-28, 2009

This year’s conference seeks to explore the following questions:

(1) How do we negotiate notions of public and private in our work?
(2) What are we learning, and what can we teach others, about this seeming dichotomy?
(3) How might we think beyond sectors and consider public and private in light of our
fieldwork, field notes, presentations, and as emerging in our research of expressive forms?

We are seeking papers and posters that engage the following topics as they relate to the theme of “Public and Private”:

Identities
Sectors
Spaces
Boundaries
Traditions
Histories
Memories
Narratives
Performances

We also welcome submissions of papers and posters on other topics.

The conference will have three opportunities for participation: paper presentations, poster sessions, and a discussion forum for all attendees. We will be accepting 250-word abstracts for 15-minute papers and poster presentations. We highly encourage poster submissions, particularly for research projects in progress, as there will be opportunities for active dialogue. Abstracts must be submitted by February 1, 2008. Please email submissions to iu.osu.conf@gmail.com. Please see the IU FSA website for details on submissions: www.indiana.edu/~folksa.

The discussion forum will allow all attendees to engage with enduring issues in our fields and to consider how those issues have emerged in their own research. Conference attendees are encouraged to submit three issues that have emerged in their own research for inclusion in developing this forum. Come join this important conversation. Remember, together we are shaping the future of our fields!

For more information on the details of the conference (lodging, location, etc.) visit
www.iub.edu/~folksa in the coming months.

Please register for the conference by February 28, 2008!

Oct 30

More Published Book Reviews

I am happy to note the publication of some more reviews by some current and former student colleagues. Teri Klassen and Rhonda Fair both have reviews in the new issue of Museum Anthropology Review. Carrie Hertz has a review in the latest issue of Material Culture. Jodine Perkins has a review out today in JFRR.

Teri’s review is of Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt and Rhonda’s is of Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions. Because MAR is an open access journal, these reviews are available at no cost online. Carrie’s review is of The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry. Material Culture is, to the best of my knowledge, a print-only journal. Find it in your nearest library here on Open WorldCat. Jodine’s review is of Long Gone, a narrative account of American farm life in the 1930s and 1940s. Like all JFRR reviews, hers is available for free online.

Oct 29

Museum Anthropology Review 2(2)

I am happy to announce the publication of Volume 2, Number 2 of Museum Anthropology Review. This issue features eight smart reviews and two fine articles. Please check it out here. Huge thanks go to everyone who has been supporting the effort–readers, reviewers, boosters, publishers, the IU LIbraries, and especially the journal’s generous authors.

Oct 2

Two Reviews

Congratulations to Suzanne Ingalsbe and Teri Klassen for each publishing book reviews this week. Suzanne reviewed Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008) by Jill Nokes with Pat Jasper in JFR Reviews. This review is available open access online here.

Teri reviewed Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection by Linda Eaton (New York: Abrams, 2007) for the July 2008 issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture 6(2):205-207. Textile, published by Berg, is a commercial journal and the review is only available online in a toll access format. ($29.99 in pay per view!) Some libraries may provide electronic access at this point. The means by which the IU Bloomington libraries provide IU folks will electronic access can not yet get us to the latest issue (there is a 6 month delay for electronic access at IUB).

Congratulations to both reviewers. The hassle of getting to Teri’s review and the ease with which we can all read Suzanne’s reveals again the virtues of open access publishing in folklore, ethnomusicology and anthropology. Lets show JFRR some love!

Sep 23

Cattelino’s High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

Just a quick note to sing the praises of my friend Jessica Cattelino’s new book High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. It is an excellent ethnography examining the ramifications and impacts of gaming on Seminole life and cultural reproduction in the context of my own topsy turvey home country, South Florida. It is a wonderful work that is poised to contribute much to the fields of anthropology and Native American studies.  Jessica has just joined the faculty at UCLA. Learn more about her book from this UCLA press release and in this posting on antropologi.info. Congratulations Jessica!

Sep 22

Korean Shaman: Possession by the Spirit of Changun

I wanted to share a short film produced by my friends Liora and Shai Sarfati. It derives from Liora’s doctoral work on the material culture of Korean Shamanism. Liora is a student in East Asian Languages and Cultures and in Folklore at Indiana University.

Sep 13

Radio Inteview: Pravina Shukla on Body Art

The WFHB radio program Interchange recently did an excellent long-format interview with my colleague Pravina Shukla. Using her book Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India as a springboard, Pravina and host Dave Stewart engage in a lively, interesting and very substantive discussion of body adornment practices worldwide. The interview is an engaging overview of Pravina’s work and an excellent introduction to folkloristic perspectives on adornment as an expressive and material culture phenomena. Find the interview online here.

Aug 29

Sarah Quick Published in Ethnologies

Congratulations to Sarah Quick on the recent publication of her essay the “Social Poetics of the Red River Jib in Alberta and Beyond: Meaningful Heritage and Emerging Performance” in the journal Ethnologies. Learn more here.

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