Nom Nom Nom

When I was in Russian summer camp we used to play the 'niam niam niam niam' song to signal meal times!

Glad to see that folk expression absolutely thrives on the intranets.

Folklore Friday - Tuesday Edition!

The intrawebs is abuzz with folklore this week:

• "American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures" - a 1991 article by Mary Hufford has been digitized and posted.
• The artist Rosalynn Rothstein has presented a rather confusing poster at the AFS meeting in Boise. I think it's wonderful!
• Josh Berer has been collecting folklore from Yemeni Jews.
• Weird Chicago Tours Blog has a personal recollection of the Bloody Mary/Mary Worth legend.
• VisWiki has an update to an article on Alan Dundes.
• Celtic Scholar has a review of Alan Dundes' "Sacred Narrative," a book which I revisit with much frequency.
• Osun.org has a neat-o collection of folklore pdfs.
• I think I will let the title of the posting speak for itself: Abstracts of Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th -21st Century Europe.
• There are countless -pedias and wikis scattered throughout the internets. Here's wapedia's take on Russian folk belief.
• Andrew Whastie has a nice introduction to slavic mythology.

Till next time: Keep on Folklorin'!

Folklore Friday!

It is Folklore Friday and time for a news round-up from the amazing and exciting world of folklore studies!

• Professor Henry Glassie was awarded the Homer Haskins Prize for his lifetime of work. This award is akin to the Irving Thalberg award at the Oscars, and it is most deserving. Henry Glassie is nothing short of a monumental force in the field of folklore. I had the pleasure of meeting him a number of years ago, and saw an amazing lecture on the folk architecture of the Piedmont. A round of applause goes out to Professor Glassie. Mirror article can also be found over at the Educational Cyberplayground.
• Interesting transcript of an interview with Gary Snyder.
• An overview of a research project on the oral history of the Ayta people from Bataan, Phillipines.
• Springshare LibGuides has a useful listing of web resources for those interested in American Folklore.
• Short biography of Joel Chandler Harris.
• A joint meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association has put out a call for papers on biography.
• Bess Lomax Hawes has passed away. The Washington Post has an obit and the NEA's official announcement.
• The Botkin Prize has gone to Maryland folklorist Elaine Eff. The accompanying picture in the Baltimore Sun makes me want to immediately get in a car and drive down to Maryland to try a Smith Island cake! Congrats!
• Speaking of Joel Chandler Harris, a call for Disney to let Song of the South out of the vaults.
• Disney's new movie has sparked lots of interest in "Song of the South," here's another article from Culture Mining.
• About a week too late, but an interesting lecture put on by the Botkin Folklife Lecture Series on Jewish/Irish collaboration on the minstrel scene.
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Folklore Books in Time for Festivus!

Another month, another list of books that can be enjoyed by folklorists of all stripes:

• Folklore of American Holidays, 4th ed. - Hennig Cohen and Tristram Potter Coffin.
• Folklore of World Holidays, 3rd ed. - Robert Griffin and Ann H. Shurgin.
• The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity - Peter Metcalf.
• The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection - W. G. Runciman.
• Creation Myths of the World - David Adams Leeming, Ph.D.
• Ethnography: Step-By-Step - David M. Fetterman. In the Series "Applied Social Research Methods."
• Ritual: Perpectives and Dimensions - Catherine Bell. Revised edition.
• Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture - Anita Mannur.
• The Flood and the Fire: Creation and Apocolypse in Irish Myth and Prophecy - Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore.
• Diana - Fay Glinister. From the series "Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World."
• Shamanic Journeys Through the Caucasus - Michael Berman.
• Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature - Susan Honeyman. Part of the series "Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales.
• Framing the Jina: Narrative of Icons and Idols in Jain History - John Cort.
• Old Gods, New Druids - Robin Herne.
• Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan - Michael Berman (man he's been busy!).
• Primitive Classification - Emile Durkheim. Reprinted as part of the "Routledge Revivals" series.
• Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan - Haya Gavish. From the series "Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology."
• Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 - ed. by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
• Between Pulpit and Pew: Folk Religion in a North Yorkshire Fishing Village - David Clark.
• Tibetan Ritual - Jose Ignacio Cabezon.
• Going to the Well for Water - Rionach Ui Ogain.