Concept Work: Constructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies
About this ebook
In Concept Work, folklorist and ethnologist Jason Baird Jackson illustrates scholarly concept work in folklore studies through fresh accounts of four concepts that are significant to the field but not yet richly explored by its practitioners—colonization, cultural heritage, cultural appropriation, and the place of folklore and folklore studies within the capitalist world system. Jackson closes the volume with a reflection on teaching and doing concept work with his students-turned-colleagues.
Concept Work is an essential introduction to the current work being done within folklore studies for teachers and students alike.
About the author
Jason Baird Jackson is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community and Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community and the editor of Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds. A former museum curator and director, he has curated more than twenty exhibitions, and he remains active in museum anthropology and museum-based folklore studies.
