Lee Haring
Biographic Data
| ID | 187883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Haring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Haring |
| SIGNATURE | HARING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
One Evening in Mayotte
The reader is invited to imagine one performance, as transcribed and reported by an ethnographer-folklorist. The performer runs a string of trickster episodes, linking together two international tale types with half a dozen or more seemingly unrelated motifs. For his final episode, he switches out of “normal” folktale style into the kind of melodrama familiar from film noir. His performance demonstrates the ways inherited and imported cultural el…
Among the Palms1
Born out of the convergence of intellectual traditions and owning a borrowing capacity analogous to the one that engenders creole languages, the study of folklore, or folkloristics, claims the right to adapt and remodel political, psychological, and anthropological insights, not only for itself but for the humanities disciplines of philosophy, art, literature, and music (the "PALM" disciplines). Performance-based folkloristics looks like a new bl…
Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life
Book Review| January 01 2018 Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life. By Dorothy Noyes. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. 459, index.). Lee Haring Lee Haring Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2018) 131 (519): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.131.519.0103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Jean Paulhan’s Research in Oral Literature
Bien que doyen du monde littéraire français dans l’entre-deux-guerres, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) a entrepris de grandes recherches dans la littérature orale malgache qui ont profondément influencé sa pensée théorique. Médiateur de deux mondes littéraires, il n’a pas, malgré ses efforts, réussi à combler le fossé entre la littérature orale et la littérature établie
Against Untranslatability
Appendix: Versions and Variants
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
Introduction: What Ibonia is and How to Read it
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
Context, History, Interpretation
This book offers an English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Recorded when the Malagasy people were first experiencing European contact, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Its fairytale elements link it with European folktales, but the story is nonetheless very much a product of Madagascar. Inflating the folktale form to epic proportions, it combines African-style praise poetry with Ind…
What it is: Texts, Plural
This book offers an English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Recorded when the Malagasy people were first experiencing European contact, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Its fairytale elements link it with European folktales, but the story is nonetheless very much a product of Madagascar. Inflating the folktale form to epic proportions, it combines African-style praise poetry with Ind…
How to Read Ibonia: Folkloric Restatement
This book offers an English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Recorded when the Malagasy people were first experiencing European contact, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Its fairytale elements link it with European folktales, but the story is nonetheless very much a product of Madagascar. Inflating the folktale form to epic proportions, it combines African-style praise poetry with Ind…
Texture and Structure: How it is Made
This book offers an English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Recorded when the Malagasy people were first experiencing European contact, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Its fairytale elements link it with European folktales, but the story is nonetheless very much a product of Madagascar. Inflating the folktale form to epic proportions, it combines African-style praise poetry with Ind…
How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
Verbal Charms in Malagasy Folktales
When, long before he became the doyen of the French literary world, the twenty-four-year-old Jean Paulhan began collecting proverbs in highland Madagascar in 1908, he noticed features of performance which were theorized only generations later. Speakers talked rapidly, yet with ‘singular dignity and seriousness.’ 1 One would spread his arms and lean forward; another conveyed the impression she was about to announce an accident or death; another ‘w…
From Formalism to Ideology: Toward a Creole Narrative Grammar
Folk narrative studies in the United States developed, through the search for “motifs” and “tale types,” to a formalism under the influence of Vladimir Propp. Then turning to descriptive ethnography, folklorists developed an attention to performance. Inevitably, the rise of public presentation led to questions of ideology and advocacy. A study of the ideological saturation of creole narratives raises the question whether the regularities whereby …
The Oral Literature Researcher as a Foreign Expert
Les recherches en littérature orale peuvent s’avérer précieuses dans le cadre des efforts de l’UNESCO pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel (2003) en décrivant précisément les différences internes à l’intérieur même des communautés ainsi que le(s) rôle(s) des artistes-performeurs individuels. La question demeure de savoir à quel point le chercheur doit ou devrait consciemment plaider en faveur d’une communauté, de ses traditions et…
America's Antitheoretical Folkloristics
Articles in this special issue, revised from an American Folklore Society "forum" in October 2005, seek to answer the question "Why is there no 'Grand Theory' in folkloristics?" The collective answer is that American folklorists don't care much for theory: having left behind the past orientation of their predecessors, they prefer to focus on the actualities of vernacular practice. The American conception of folklore moves its professionals away f…
Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology (review)
Reviewed by: Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology Lee Haring Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology. By Vincent Crapanzano. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. They are set adrift among icebergs, wondering which to cling to: kinship-social organization, religion-ritual, demography, archaeology, language-culture, symbolism, cosmology, ecology–land use, cognition, gender, …
Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology
Book Review| January 01 2007 Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, Vincent Crapanzano. Lee Haring Lee Haring Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2007) 120 (475): 108–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137882 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Eastward to the Islands: The Other Diaspora
The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Seychelles, named the "Mascareignes" after a Portuguese explorer, are products of an eastward African diaspora, almost invisible in the West except to a few historians. Empty of human population until European exploitation settled them with a few colonists and thousands of slaves from East Africa and Madagascar, their multicultural history demonstrates the astonishing durability of African and M…
Framing in Oral Narrative
tell you what I'll do, said the smith. fix your sword for you tomorrow, if you tell me story while I'm doing it. speaker was an Irish storyteller 1935, one story another (O'Sullivan 75, 264). moment recalls the Thousand and One Nights, where the story of The Envier and the Envied is enclosed the larger story told by the second Kalandar (Burton 1: 113-39), and many stories are enclosed others. It was quite traditional for the Irish storyteller, hi…
Cultural Creolization
The central effect of globalization is cultural convergence. The notion of "cultural creolization," amplified from creole linguistics, offers a model wherewith to understand the cultural convergences of Europe and the rest of the postmodern world. Creolization, like diaspora, is a word with a history that is relevant to cultural analysis. Despite the claims of other terms like acculturation, transculturation, mixing, and hybridization, I advocate…
Suggestions Towards a Theory of Folklore (review)
In Hungary, the long, honorable tradition of scholarly folkloristics marks folklore and its study as perfectly distinct. No scholar understands that distinctiveness better than Vilmos Voigt, longtime chair of the folklore department at Loránd Eötvös University, in Budapest. Ceaselessly active in international conferences, he deserves still more recognition. The twenty-five articles (originally published from 1969 to 1992) in this book are address…
Who Were You Talking To?? Diasporic Folktales
By looking at a locally situated communicative interaction, Haring argues that we are able to see the ongoing, "globalizing" process of diaspora. His article demonstrates this proposition through specific examples of Southwest Indian Ocean tales collected during fieldwork. It begins by suggesting how folklorists may contribute to an understanding of globalization. The first section traces the history of Indians in Mauritius, which typifies one ki…
Interpreters of Indian Ocean Tales
Oral folktales of the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, and the Comoros became available for Europeans when investigators successfully translated the cultural production of the islands into European languages, as part of the export of raw materials to the western world. Through interpreting tales, ethnographers contributed to the European order of knowledge about the meaning of native discourses
Mr. Elizabeth, Island Storyteller: Symbol and Creolization in Indian Ocean Folktales
In the island of Réunion, European folktales are told by the poor white population. Two examples of specific tales are examined here: the first, a version of an internationally known tale type, "The Smith Outwits the Devil" (AT 330), narrated by Mr. Elizabeth as "The Cardplayer," illustrates local meanings, which arise from the teller's social position, as well as the region's processes of cultural creolization; the second narrated tale, "Four Ro…
Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition
The Xhosa-speaking peoples of south-eastern South Africa have a long tradition of oral poetry, extending back at least two hundred years. This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of that tradition. Jeff Opland has assembled a large corpus of Xhosa oral poetry making his the first analysis of an active South African oral poetic tradition to be based on actual fieldwork. The book focuses in particular on the poetry produced …
Framing in Oral Narrative
tell you what I'll do, said the smith. fix your sword for you tomorrow, if you tell me story while I'm doing it. speaker was an Irish storyteller 1935, one story another (O'Sullivan 75, 264). moment recalls the Thousand and One Nights, where the story of The Envier and the Envied is enclosed the larger story told by the second Kalandar (Burton 1: 113-39), and many stories are enclosed others. It was quite traditional for the Irish storyteller, hi…
Cultural Creolization
The central effect of globalization is cultural convergence. The notion of "cultural creolization," amplified from creole linguistics, offers a model wherewith to understand the cultural convergences of Europe and the rest of the postmodern world. Creolization, like diaspora, is a word with a history that is relevant to cultural analysis. Despite the claims of other terms like acculturation, transculturation, mixing, and hybridization, I advocate…
How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
America's Antitheoretical Folkloristics
Articles in this special issue, revised from an American Folklore Society "forum" in October 2005, seek to answer the question "Why is there no 'Grand Theory' in folkloristics?" The collective answer is that American folklorists don't care much for theory: having left behind the past orientation of their predecessors, they prefer to focus on the actualities of vernacular practice. The American conception of folklore moves its professionals away f…
Eastward to the Islands: The Other Diaspora
The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Seychelles, named the "Mascareignes" after a Portuguese explorer, are products of an eastward African diaspora, almost invisible in the West except to a few historians. Empty of human population until European exploitation settled them with a few colonists and thousands of slaves from East Africa and Madagascar, their multicultural history demonstrates the astonishing durability of African and M…
Interpreters of Indian Ocean Tales
Oral folktales of the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, and the Comoros became available for Europeans when investigators successfully translated the cultural production of the islands into European languages, as part of the export of raw materials to the western world. Through interpreting tales, ethnographers contributed to the European order of knowledge about the meaning of native discourses
African Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean Islands
A poor man goes to the seaside and takes a fishing boat (pirog). For a week he fishes. Nothing. He rows out to a little rock (lilot), where he catches the Queen of the Sea. He is about to strike her when she says, "Lift your eyes, look at God (Bondyé). I'll give you a goat. You won't have to come to the sea any more. You'll say, 'By the virtue of the goat the queen of the sea gave me, I want to see everything I need!'" On the way home he is inter…
Anu Koleksyonn Folklor Moris / Collecting Folklore in Mauritius
Pour une anthropologie des voix
Malagasy Riddling
The Genesis of Structures in African Narrative. Volume 1: Zande Trickster Tales
On Knowing the Answer
WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF RIDDLE STUDY-the behavior of riddlers with its social and psychological functions, the structure of riddle questions, the logic binding the parts? All these elements have been scrutinized recently with telling results. study of African riddling raises a simple and far-reaching question. Is the person to whom the riddle is posed really expected to guess the answer? Most Western-educated persons assume that he is, but I believ…
The Folk Music Revival
To one whose emotional life and interests were intimately bound up with the folk music revival of the 1950s, the article reviewing its history by Jens Lund and R. Serge Denisoff (JAF, 84 [1971), 394-405) is delightful and exasperating. I am grateful for the delights. My exasperation comes from both a sense of something amiss and a frustration in identifying it. As far as I can judge, it is a foreshortening of time, accompanied by some reversals i…
Gusii Oral Texts
On Knowing the Answer
WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF RIDDLE STUDY-the behavior of riddlers with its social and psychological functions, the structure of riddle questions, the logic binding the parts? All these elements have been scrutinized recently with telling results. study of African riddling raises a simple and far-reaching question. Is the person to whom the riddle is posed really expected to guess the answer? Most Western-educated persons assume that he is, but I believ…
Folksong: Une Histoire de la Musique Populaire aux Etats-Unis
Folklore in Nigerian Literature
The Genesis of Structures in African Narrative. Volume 1: Zande Trickster Tales
Content and Context of Zulu Folk-Narratives
Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw
Who was Robin Hood? Did he ever exist? Two eminent historians here piece together the evidence and illustrate, through a critical edition of the ballads, including fourteen of the earliest known, the development of the Robin Hood myth from his medieval portrayal as a common criminal through to his Victorian idealization as a rustic hero. A thorough and updated introduction ensures that this remains the most comprehensive guide to the subject avai…
"On Another Day…." Tales Told among the Nkundo of Zaïre
Folk Revival: The Rediscovery of a National Music
There Was a Certain Man. Spoken Art of the Fipa
Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Novel-Making
The Jack in the Green
Lorang's Way
Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
Malagasy Tale Index
The Banished Child: A Study in Tonga Oral Literature
Malagasy Riddling
Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition
The Xhosa-speaking peoples of south-eastern South Africa have a long tradition of oral poetry, extending back at least two hundred years. This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of that tradition. Jeff Opland has assembled a large corpus of Xhosa oral poetry making his the first analysis of an active South African oral poetic tradition to be based on actual fieldwork. The book focuses in particular on the poetry produced …
Burns and Tradition
An Ancient Nigerian Drama. The Idoma Inquest, a Bilingual Presentation in Idoma and English, together with "Odegwudegwu," an Original Bilingual Play in Idoma and English
Somalia in Word and Image
Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective
A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory.
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society
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