John Forrest
Biographic Data
| ID | 115467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Forrest |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrest |
| SIGNATURE | FORREST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5038-647X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1875 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing Field Projects
Lord I'm Coming Home
1. Capable of sensory perception.2. Open to judgments based on taste.3. Capable of affecting the perceiver.4. Capable of disinterested appreciation.
Lord I'm Coming Home
Synthesis
SynthesisIt would be premature to begin building theories of the interaction of aesthetic forms and the role of aesthetics in daily life on the basis of a single ethnography.Clearly this kind of study needs to be multiplied many times before generalization can become meaningful.Nonethe less, I shall attempt some conclusions that remain fa ithful to the data gathered in Tidewater.These conclusions may point the way for con tinued investigation and…
Explorations in Australia
John Forrest (1847–1918), was an Australian surveyor and explorer. At twenty-two, he led an expedition to determine the fate of Ludwig Leichardt, who had earlier disappeared in the western desert. The following year he surveyed the coastal route from Perth to Adelaide, establishing the possibility of a telegraph line. In 1874, he crossed the central western desert, a two-thousand mile journey which confirmed his heroic reputation. He received the…
Folklore for a New Century
Folklore as a discipline had promising beginnings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the end of the twentieth century, however, the academic study had begun to fade in academies, and the substantive content had lost a great deal of public interest. Three books deal with the practice of folk studies and ask the question of where folklore might go in the twenty-first century. One looks at the theoretical history of the discipl…
The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750
Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now, building upon his previous work with Michael Heaney of the Bodleian Library in Annals of Early Morris, John Forrest ca…
Natural History of the Traditional Quilt
Diagnosing America
Chaseworld
Chaseworld is a study of the foxhunters in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after foxchases and analyzes the stories that hunters tell about chases. Through these activities and narratives, she contends, Pine Barrens foxhunters have collaboratively constructed an alternate reality-the Chaseworld
Get Real
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn ForrestJohn Forrest is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Purchase. He is the author of several books on the anthropology of art and aesthetics, the most recent being Lord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina (Cornell University Press, 1989). He is currently preparing a text on field methods in aesthetic anthropology, which…
Lord I'm Coming Home
1. Capable of sensory perception.2. Open to judgments based on taste.3. Capable of affecting the perceiver.4. Capable of disinterested appreciation
Morris and Matachin
Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences
common script is standard historical and sociological fare. In the passage from which this quote is drawn, Rude describes a script proceeding from general grievances to triggering events and on to a fixed repertory of rick-burning, machine-breaking, and so on. Throughout his earlier chapters he presents stories of individual riots, on the evidence of which this generalized rests. But one may well ask when we can really speak of such a fixed of ev…
Morris and Matachin
Here We Come A-Fossiling
In the first decades of the twentieth century Cecil Sharp ushered in a revival of ceremonial dance in England through his own teaching of the dances and through published manuals such as The Morris Book and The Sword Dances of Northern England . Sharp's lead was followed almost immediately by a number of collectors. The demand for dance manuals has never slackened, so that now the literature on how to dance the English ceremonial dances is substa…
The Economic Geography and Development of Australia
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
On the Natives of Central and Western Australia
Journal of the Western Australian Exploring Expedition Through the Centre of Australia, from Champion Bay to the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Port Darwin
Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences
common script is standard historical and sociological fare. In the passage from which this quote is drawn, Rude describes a script proceeding from general grievances to triggering events and on to a fixed repertory of rick-burning, machine-breaking, and so on. Throughout his earlier chapters he presents stories of individual riots, on the evidence of which this generalized rests. But one may well ask when we can really speak of such a fixed of ev…
Lord I'm Coming Home
1. Capable of sensory perception.2. Open to judgments based on taste.3. Capable of affecting the perceiver.4. Capable of disinterested appreciation
Chaseworld
Chaseworld is a study of the foxhunters in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after foxchases and analyzes the stories that hunters tell about chases. Through these activities and narratives, she contends, Pine Barrens foxhunters have collaboratively constructed an alternate reality-the Chaseworld
Get Real
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn ForrestJohn Forrest is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Purchase. He is the author of several books on the anthropology of art and aesthetics, the most recent being Lord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina (Cornell University Press, 1989). He is currently preparing a text on field methods in aesthetic anthropology, which…
Morris and Matachin
On the Natives of Central and Western Australia
Journal of the Western Australian Exploring Expedition Through the Centre of Australia, from Champion Bay to the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Port Darwin
On the Natives of Central and Western Australia
The Economic Geography and Development of Australia
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
Here We Come A-Fossiling
In the first decades of the twentieth century Cecil Sharp ushered in a revival of ceremonial dance in England through his own teaching of the dances and through published manuals such as The Morris Book and The Sword Dances of Northern England . Sharp's lead was followed almost immediately by a number of collectors. The demand for dance manuals has never slackened, so that now the literature on how to dance the English ceremonial dances is substa…
Morris and Matachin
Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences
common script is standard historical and sociological fare. In the passage from which this quote is drawn, Rude describes a script proceeding from general grievances to triggering events and on to a fixed repertory of rick-burning, machine-breaking, and so on. Throughout his earlier chapters he presents stories of individual riots, on the evidence of which this generalized rests. But one may well ask when we can really speak of such a fixed of ev…
Morris and Matachin
Lord I'm Coming Home
1. Capable of sensory perception.2. Open to judgments based on taste.3. Capable of affecting the perceiver.4. Capable of disinterested appreciation
Get Real
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn ForrestJohn Forrest is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Purchase. He is the author of several books on the anthropology of art and aesthetics, the most recent being Lord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina (Cornell University Press, 1989). He is currently preparing a text on field methods in aesthetic anthropology, which…
Chaseworld
Chaseworld is a study of the foxhunters in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after foxchases and analyzes the stories that hunters tell about chases. Through these activities and narratives, she contends, Pine Barrens foxhunters have collaboratively constructed an alternate reality-the Chaseworld
Diagnosing America
Natural History of the Traditional Quilt
The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750
Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now, building upon his previous work with Michael Heaney of the Bodleian Library in Annals of Early Morris, John Forrest ca…
Folklore for a New Century
Folklore as a discipline had promising beginnings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the end of the twentieth century, however, the academic study had begun to fade in academies, and the substantive content had lost a great deal of public interest. Three books deal with the practice of folk studies and ask the question of where folklore might go in the twenty-first century. One looks at the theoretical history of the discipl…
Explorations in Australia
John Forrest (1847–1918), was an Australian surveyor and explorer. At twenty-two, he led an expedition to determine the fate of Ludwig Leichardt, who had earlier disappeared in the western desert. The following year he surveyed the coastal route from Perth to Adelaide, establishing the possibility of a telegraph line. In 1874, he crossed the central western desert, a two-thousand mile journey which confirmed his heroic reputation. He received the…
Lord I'm Coming Home
1. Capable of sensory perception.2. Open to judgments based on taste.3. Capable of affecting the perceiver.4. Capable of disinterested appreciation.
Lord I'm Coming Home
Synthesis
SynthesisIt would be premature to begin building theories of the interaction of aesthetic forms and the role of aesthetics in daily life on the basis of a single ethnography.Clearly this kind of study needs to be multiplied many times before generalization can become meaningful.Nonethe less, I shall attempt some conclusions that remain fa ithful to the data gathered in Tidewater.These conclusions may point the way for con tinued investigation and…
Doing Field Projects
Art (11 works) · History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (3 works) · Dance (3 works)