Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Biographic Data
| ID | 165131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary Lévy |
| FAMILY NAME | Zumwalt |
| SIGNATURE | ZUMWALT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agnes Scott College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hurston, Zora Neale (1901–60)
Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and anthropologist, was born in the US South and studied at Barnard College and Columbia University with Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Gladys Reichard. She was a gifted fieldworker and captured the spirit of the spoken word in her numerous publications. She was widely acclaimed for the monograph Mules and Men and the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd . Unable to complete her graduate work at Col…
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952-2021)
Ira Stuart Jacknis was born on March 25, 1952, in New York City; he died on September 29, 2021, in Oakland, California. Ira was a dear friend and colleague of mine. Because he was so brilliant, organized, and generous, he was a person who often solved intractable historical and bibliographic mysteries for me in my research on Franz Boas. Ira was kind, gentle, and a sweet spirit. There was a collective cry of anguish when his friends across the co…
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
V an G ennep, A rnold (1873–1957)
Arnold van Gennep wrote The Rites of Passage in 1909 and applied the framework to his study of French folklore. He conducted fieldwork in Algeria and throughout France. While Van Gennep's focus from 1924 to his death, indeed until the posthumous publication in 1958 of Part 7 of Manual of Contemporary French Folklore , might appear to be solely focused on folklore, for Van Gennep there was no distinction between folklore and ethnography. For him, …
Here is our man: Dundes Discovered, The Development of the Folklore Program at the University of California, Berkeley
This paper focuses on the recruitment of Alan Dundes to the University of California, Berkeley, and his work with William Bascom in founding the Folklore Program. Using primarily the William Bascom Papers and the Alan Dundes Papers housed in the Bancroft Library, the paper stresses the personal voice in the history of folklore, which draws on the spoken word of the participants in the making of academic history. Here, the term “spoken word” is us…
A Mother-in-law Not Even of Clay is Good: Sfuegra ni de baro es buena
This article examines the place of the mother-in-law in Sephardic folklore. From proverbs to narratives, to popular songs, the folklore has a singular message: that the kinship relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law is poisonous. The authors conducted fieldwork among the Sephardim of the historic Ottoman Empire, Israel and the United States. Notes [1] Due to the variance in pronunciation according to the geographical origi…
Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 98, Part 2)
The papers of William Shedrick Willis (1921-1983), housed at the APS, include his drafts of the manuscript “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” They contain the fascinating story of Franz Boas’s visit to Atlanta Univ. in 1906, and more, because Willis intended the work to be a book on Boas’s work in black anthropology. Zumwalt focuses on what was to have been Willis’s first chapter, “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” She expands the sections on Boas’s trip to Atlanta, t…
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women's pivotal role in the health of their communities. Centered around extensive interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates a fascinating complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the physical and spiri…
Memories of Time Past: Fieldwork among the Sephardim
This article examines the process of doing fieldwork among elderly Sephardim on the topic of folk medicine and folk religion. The authors examine the way in which they, as fieldworkers, and the people they interviewed took part in a joint endeavor, and a shared experience that brought forth images of a life earlier lived. The process of recall was not one-sided. Rather, there was an interconnectedness of memory that rendered a joint venture into …
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
Book Review| July 01 2000 Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles, Gregori Viens. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (449): 325–326. https://doi.org/10.2307/542109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosemary Lévy Zumw…
Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modern Life
Eve Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life. By Desley Deacon. Women in Culture and Society Series. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 520, photographs, illustrations, maps, index. $29.95 cloth) Desley Deacon has written an encompassing and provocative biography of Elsie Clews Parsons. her Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life, Deacon has a twofold goal: to chart the course of Parsons's life, and to show how Parsons and others…
Fear and Conventionality
Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes
The 1996 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. "Let It Go to the Garlic!" Evil Eye and the Fertility of Women among the Sephardim
L'A. analyse les conceptions sur la sante (corporelle mais aussi spirituelle) parmi les communautes juives sefarades de Turquie a travers l'etude des pratiques de protections contre le mauvais œil (ou mal ojo) et des discours des femmes sur ces pratiques. Les actions intentionnelles ou involontaires motivees principalement par la jalousie ou l'envie affectent les femmes et expliqueraient, selon elles, la plupart des problemes touchant directement…
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist
Journal Article Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist. By Rosemary Levy Zumwalt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxiv, 360 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-25201909-1.) Get access Richard Handler Richard Handler University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1126–1127, …
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Foreword by Alan Dundes Preface 1. Discipline and Identity 2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope 3. The Schism in Folklore 4. Literary Folklorists 5. The Anthropological Folklorists 6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological 7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory Notes Archival Sources Abbreviations Bibliography Index
Daniel Garrison Brinton: The "Fearless Critic" of Philadelphia
New and Noteworthy
Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine
Arnold van Gennep was a leader in the field of French folklore and ethnology. His life was one of prolific publication, constant intellectual growth, and incisive criticism of the French social sciences. Yet he remained an outcast from the French academic life. From a survey of his writings and those of members of L'Année Sociologique, the lines of tension which resulted in van Gennep's exclusion from academe are traced. [Arnold van Gennep, Emile…
Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell 1881-1967
Plain and Fancy: A Content Analysis of Children's Jokes Dealing with Adult Sexuality
Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine
Arnold van Gennep was a leader in the field of French folklore and ethnology. His life was one of prolific publication, constant intellectual growth, and incisive criticism of the French social sciences. Yet he remained an outcast from the French academic life. From a survey of his writings and those of members of L'Année Sociologique, the lines of tension which resulted in van Gennep's exclusion from academe are traced. [Arnold van Gennep, Emile…
Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modern Life
Eve Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life. By Desley Deacon. Women in Culture and Society Series. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 520, photographs, illustrations, maps, index. $29.95 cloth) Desley Deacon has written an encompassing and provocative biography of Elsie Clews Parsons. her Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life, Deacon has a twofold goal: to chart the course of Parsons's life, and to show how Parsons and others…
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women's pivotal role in the health of their communities. Centered around extensive interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates a fascinating complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the physical and spiri…
Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist
Journal Article Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist. By Rosemary Levy Zumwalt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxiv, 360 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-25201909-1.) Get access Richard Handler Richard Handler University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1126–1127, …
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Foreword by Alan Dundes Preface 1. Discipline and Identity 2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope 3. The Schism in Folklore 4. Literary Folklorists 5. The Anthropological Folklorists 6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological 7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory Notes Archival Sources Abbreviations Bibliography Index
A Mother-in-law Not Even of Clay is Good: Sfuegra ni de baro es buena
This article examines the place of the mother-in-law in Sephardic folklore. From proverbs to narratives, to popular songs, the folklore has a singular message: that the kinship relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law is poisonous. The authors conducted fieldwork among the Sephardim of the historic Ottoman Empire, Israel and the United States. Notes [1] Due to the variance in pronunciation according to the geographical origi…
Fear and Conventionality
The 1996 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. "Let It Go to the Garlic!" Evil Eye and the Fertility of Women among the Sephardim
L'A. analyse les conceptions sur la sante (corporelle mais aussi spirituelle) parmi les communautes juives sefarades de Turquie a travers l'etude des pratiques de protections contre le mauvais œil (ou mal ojo) et des discours des femmes sur ces pratiques. Les actions intentionnelles ou involontaires motivees principalement par la jalousie ou l'envie affectent les femmes et expliqueraient, selon elles, la plupart des problemes touchant directement…
Plain and Fancy: A Content Analysis of Children's Jokes Dealing with Adult Sexuality
Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell 1881-1967
Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine
Arnold van Gennep was a leader in the field of French folklore and ethnology. His life was one of prolific publication, constant intellectual growth, and incisive criticism of the French social sciences. Yet he remained an outcast from the French academic life. From a survey of his writings and those of members of L'Année Sociologique, the lines of tension which resulted in van Gennep's exclusion from academe are traced. [Arnold van Gennep, Emile…
New and Noteworthy
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Foreword by Alan Dundes Preface 1. Discipline and Identity 2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope 3. The Schism in Folklore 4. Literary Folklorists 5. The Anthropological Folklorists 6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological 7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory Notes Archival Sources Abbreviations Bibliography Index
Daniel Garrison Brinton: The "Fearless Critic" of Philadelphia
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist
Journal Article Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist. By Rosemary Levy Zumwalt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxiv, 360 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-25201909-1.) Get access Richard Handler Richard Handler University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1126–1127, …
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
The 1996 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. "Let It Go to the Garlic!" Evil Eye and the Fertility of Women among the Sephardim
L'A. analyse les conceptions sur la sante (corporelle mais aussi spirituelle) parmi les communautes juives sefarades de Turquie a travers l'etude des pratiques de protections contre le mauvais œil (ou mal ojo) et des discours des femmes sur ces pratiques. Les actions intentionnelles ou involontaires motivees principalement par la jalousie ou l'envie affectent les femmes et expliqueraient, selon elles, la plupart des problemes touchant directement…
Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modern Life
Eve Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life. By Desley Deacon. Women in Culture and Society Series. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 520, photographs, illustrations, maps, index. $29.95 cloth) Desley Deacon has written an encompassing and provocative biography of Elsie Clews Parsons. her Elsie Clews Parsons, Inventing Modem Life, Deacon has a twofold goal: to chart the course of Parsons's life, and to show how Parsons and others…
Fear and Conventionality
Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
Book Review| July 01 2000 Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles, Gregori Viens. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (449): 325–326. https://doi.org/10.2307/542109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosemary Lévy Zumw…
Memories of Time Past: Fieldwork among the Sephardim
This article examines the process of doing fieldwork among elderly Sephardim on the topic of folk medicine and folk religion. The authors examine the way in which they, as fieldworkers, and the people they interviewed took part in a joint endeavor, and a shared experience that brought forth images of a life earlier lived. The process of recall was not one-sided. Rather, there was an interconnectedness of memory that rendered a joint venture into …
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women's pivotal role in the health of their communities. Centered around extensive interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates a fascinating complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the physical and spiri…
Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 98, Part 2)
The papers of William Shedrick Willis (1921-1983), housed at the APS, include his drafts of the manuscript “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” They contain the fascinating story of Franz Boas’s visit to Atlanta Univ. in 1906, and more, because Willis intended the work to be a book on Boas’s work in black anthropology. Zumwalt focuses on what was to have been Willis’s first chapter, “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” She expands the sections on Boas’s trip to Atlanta, t…
A Mother-in-law Not Even of Clay is Good: Sfuegra ni de baro es buena
This article examines the place of the mother-in-law in Sephardic folklore. From proverbs to narratives, to popular songs, the folklore has a singular message: that the kinship relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law is poisonous. The authors conducted fieldwork among the Sephardim of the historic Ottoman Empire, Israel and the United States. Notes [1] Due to the variance in pronunciation according to the geographical origi…
Here is our man: Dundes Discovered, The Development of the Folklore Program at the University of California, Berkeley
This paper focuses on the recruitment of Alan Dundes to the University of California, Berkeley, and his work with William Bascom in founding the Folklore Program. Using primarily the William Bascom Papers and the Alan Dundes Papers housed in the Bancroft Library, the paper stresses the personal voice in the history of folklore, which draws on the spoken word of the participants in the making of academic history. Here, the term “spoken word” is us…
V an G ennep, A rnold (1873–1957)
Arnold van Gennep wrote The Rites of Passage in 1909 and applied the framework to his study of French folklore. He conducted fieldwork in Algeria and throughout France. While Van Gennep's focus from 1924 to his death, indeed until the posthumous publication in 1958 of Part 7 of Manual of Contemporary French Folklore , might appear to be solely focused on folklore, for Van Gennep there was no distinction between folklore and ethnography. For him, …
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952-2021)
Ira Stuart Jacknis was born on March 25, 1952, in New York City; he died on September 29, 2021, in Oakland, California. Ira was a dear friend and colleague of mine. Because he was so brilliant, organized, and generous, he was a person who often solved intractable historical and bibliographic mysteries for me in my research on Franz Boas. Ira was kind, gentle, and a sweet spirit. There was a collective cry of anguish when his friends across the co…
Hurston, Zora Neale (1901–60)
Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and anthropologist, was born in the US South and studied at Barnard College and Columbia University with Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Gladys Reichard. She was a gifted fieldworker and captured the spirit of the spoken word in her numerous publications. She was widely acclaimed for the monograph Mules and Men and the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd . Unable to complete her graduate work at Col…
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