Simon J Bronner

Datos Biográficos

ID413883
NOMBRESimon J Bronner
NOMBRESSimon J
APELLIDOBronner
FIRMABRONNER S J
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0009-0003-4773-8934
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS86
TOTAL DE CITAS86
TOTAL COMO AUTOR83
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Jerrilyn McGregory (1949–2025)

    Emily Socolov, Simon J Bronner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2026

  • Folklore and Politics in, and of, General Education Requirements at Universities in the United States

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2026

    Florida Senate Bill 266 set a legal precedent in 2023 by establishing governmental controls on the process by which general education is managed by universities in the United States. It limited the ability of universities to include principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in general education requirements and instituted other limitations on the offering of courses and programs related to “identity politics.” This essay reviews the re…

  • Ronald Lee Baker (1937-2023)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2024

    Ronald Lee Baker, known to his many friends and colleagues as “Ron,” died in an Indianapolis hospital on June 1, 2023, just weeks before what would have been his 86th birthday. In his scholarship, Ron provided historical contexts of expressive traditions—including names, legends, jokes, songs, beliefs, and proverbs. As a founding leader of and editor for the History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS), he provided historic…

  • The (Mal)Functionality of Vernacular

    Open AccessSimon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of Ethnology and…2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 43

    Continuing a dialogue with Ülo Valk on the value of the etic term vernacular in folk-loristic scholarship, this essay responds to his claim that despite the stigma of the word's past usage and its rejection by other fields it holds promise for folkloristics because of its conceptual flexibility, which he finds is especially conducive to the study of belief and religious practices. Pointing out that flexibility - or "fuzziness" to quote other crit…

  • Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEFolklore2023

    a giant of folkloristics as an international academic discipline, died on

  • John Michael Vlach (1948-2022)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2023Citada por: 1

    John Michael Vlach, who made major contributions as an author, editor, and curator to folklife scholarship with illustrious studies of traditional architecture, craft, and art, died on October 30, 2022, in Washington, DC. He was also an educational leader who, as founding director of the graduate program in folklife at George Washington University (GW), inspired many budding folklorists. Not one to shy away from controversy, he boldly cut against…

  • Inspirational Insights

    Open AccessSimon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of Ethnology and…2022

    Although many disciplines dropped the use of “vernacular” in the 21st century because of the term’s connotations of primitivism, classism, and marginalization arising from 19th-century colonialism, the term has risen in usage among folklorists and ethnologists in the early 21st century. Three distinct streams of usage are identified and analyzed for their nuanced meaning: linguistics, religion, and architecture. Folkloristic and ethnological usag…

  • Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

    Simon J BronnerBOOKJewish folklore and ethnology2022

    This inaugural article for *Jewish Folklore and Ethnology* sets forth the parameters of the field, arguing for its continuing relevance in Jewish Studies and folklore studies generally. It reviews the development of Jewish folklore as a discipline, highlighting its major figures and approaches, and then considers the current state of the field, including the impact of new technologies and theoretical perspectives. The article concludes by suggest…

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies

    Simon J BronnerBOOKOxford Handbook of American…2019

    This handbook surveys the materials, approaches, and contexts of American folklore and folklife studies to guide folklorists and students/scholars of American culture, history, and society through more than 350 years of work in the subject. To cover the contextual and behavioral aspects as well as textual materials of American folklore and folklife studies, the handbook contains forty-three chapters under four major headings of (1) background, th…

  • Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies

    Simon J BronnerBOOKOxford Handbook of American…2019

    "This handbook surveys the materials, approaches, contexts, and applications of American folklore and folklife studies to guide students and scholars of American folklore, culture, history, and society in the future. In addition to longstanding areas in the 350-year legacy of the subject's study and applications such as folktales and speech, the handbook includes exciting fields that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, …

  • The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

    Open AccessSimon J BronnerARTICLEHumanities2018

    American Folklore consists of traditional knowledge and cultural practices engaged by inhabitants of the United States below Canada and above Mexico. American folklorists were influenced by nineteenth-century European humanistic scholarship that identified in traditional stories, songs, and speech among lower class peasants an artistic quality and claim to cultural nationalism. The United States, however, appeared to lack a peasant class and shar…

  • The Death of American Studies

    Open AccessSimon J BronnerARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2018Referencias: 24

    Using the life-course metaphor in Richard M. Dorson’s landmark address “The Birth of American Studies” in Warsaw on the occasion of forty years since the start of the groundbreaking Harvard program in American Studies, this essay questions whether American Studies in the forty years afterwards suffered a fatal malaise. It applies the analytical approach of historiographer Gene Wise to identify “representative acts” that mark paradigm dramas resul…

  • African American Folklore, Folklife, and Race

    Anand Prahlad, Simon J BronnerCHAPTEROxford Handbook of American…2018

    The study of African American folklore has been grounded from its beginnings in the colonial period in discourses and power dynamics of race. This chapter posits that these beginnings have given rise to two folkloristic traditions, with differing agendas, methodologies, aesthetics, relationships to black communities, and investments in race. The mainstream tradition has been aligned with scholarly trends within academe and has seldom focused expl…

  • Pennsylvania Germans

    Joshua R Brown, Simon Bronner et al.BOOKPennsylvania Germans2017

  • W. F. H. “Bill” Nicolaisen (1927–2016)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2017

    Research Article| April 01 2017 W. F. H. “Bill” Nicolaisen (1927–2016) Simon J. Bronner Simon J. Bronner The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2017) 130 (516): 219–222. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.130.516.0219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon J. Bronner; W. F. H. “Bill” Nicol…

  • Don Yoder (1921–2015)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEFolklore2016

    Don Yoder, whose name was synonymous with the folklife studies movement in America, was stilled just short of his ninety-fourth birthday by a brain aneurysm at his home in Devon, Pennsylvania, on t

  • The True Image

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2014

    The result is a window into the social worlds in which the bighams lived and worked. he traces their movement down the Great Wagon road along with a stream of Scotch-irish settlers from Pennsylvania to South carolina driven by the hunger for land and complicated pulls of kin- ship, religion, and politics. he treats the reader to accounts of marriage customs and the great day on the first Sunday after a marriage, to point out the ties that bound S…

  • Campus traditions

    Simon J BronnerBOOKCampus traditions2012

  • Practice Theory in Folklore and Folklife Studies

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEFolklore2012Citada por: 9Referencias: 32

    Since the 1960s, folkloristic approaches in North America and Europe have been thematised with the keywords of performance and practice, respectively. Although the orientations built around the keywords share a concern for conceptualising folklore as a type of expressive action, significant theoretical differences are apparent. Arising at a similar juncture in the twentieth century in response to social upheaval, they differ in the use of explana…

  • Revisioning Ritual

    Simon J BronnerBOOKRevisioning Ritual2011

  • Killing Tradition

    Simon J BronnerBOOKKilling tradition2008Citada por: 10

    Is hunting a bygone activity, out of touch with modern life; or is it valuable as an escape from it? Does hunting promote violence, not just to animals, but to humans as well? Is hunting, with its connection to the land and frontier experience, a heritage worth preserving? These questions form the foundations for discussion in this book. The study sorts through the issues and goes behind the headlines to examine the basis of this hotly charged su…

  • Hare Coursing and the Ethics of Tradition

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEFolk Life2007Referencias: 3

    The ‘Hunting Act 2004’, known colloquially as ‘the ban’, signalled a monumental legal change, and social divide, in Great Britain. The contentious effect of the bill was to outlaw hunting with dogs in England and Wales after 18 February 2005. Parliament spent over 700 hours debating the ban in 2004, and one index of its political as well as social significance is that the debate consumed more time than military, environmental, social welfare, and…

  • W.K. McNeil (1940-2005)

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2006

    Other| July 01 2006 W.K. McNeil (1940-2005) Simon J. Bronner Simon J. Bronner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (473): 356–361. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137642 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon J. Bronner; W.K. McNeil (1940-2005). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2006; 119 (473): 356–361. doi: https://doi.or…

  • Obituary

    Simon J BronnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2006

    Obituary:W.K. McNeil (1940-2005) Simon J. Bronner With the death on April 19, 2005, of William Kinneth McNeil, known to friends and folklorists as "Bill" and to a reading public as "W. K.," folklore studies lost a prominent advocate of historical approaches to traditional culture as well as the most comprehensive historiographer of its early period. His prodigious publication list is filled with oft-cited books and articles on folk song, narrativ…

  • Crossing the Line

    Simon J BronnerBOOKCrossing the Line2006Citada por: 5Referencias: 1

    Al sinds de 16e eeuw worden zeelieden uit Europa en Noord- Amerika geconfronteerd met een meedogenloze en ingewikkelde ontgroeningsceremonie op zee. Het ritueel,'crossing the line' of Neptunusfeest, wordt voltrokken wanneer zeelieden voor het eerst op zee de evenaar passeren. De ceremonie gaat gepaard met verbaal en fysiek geweld, (kaal) scheren of knippen, onderdompelen en kielhalen, een seksueel getint rollenspel, spot-dopen,mythologische voors…