Steve Siporin
Biographic Data
| ID | 231586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Siporin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Siporin |
| SIGNATURE | SIPORIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra
Book Review| October 01 2014 Leo Levi—The Man with the Nagra Leo Levi—The Man with the Nagra. 2011. By Yaala Levi Zimmerman. 90 min. DVD. In Hebrew and Italian, subtitles in English. (Jerusalem, Israel: Ruth Diskin, Ltd.). Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (506): 470–471. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.127.506.0470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism (review)
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism
Book Review| January 01 2009 The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism, Ernesto De Martino and Dorothy Louise Zinn. Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2009) 122 (483): 104–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
A Contemporary Legend from Italy
This legend describes how a romance goes awry when a young man proposes marriage by having a diamond engagement ring placed inside the hollow chocolate egg he gives his sweetheart for Easter. I first describe my attempt to discover the origin of the narrative and then I reflect on the reasons for its contemporary popularity. I find the reasons to be rooted in this legend’s seamless combining of local Perugian symbols with several layers of folklo…
A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano (review)
Reviewed by: A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano Steve Siporin A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano. By Lidia D. Sciama. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. Pp. xxii + 250, bibliography, illustrations, index, appendices.) Burano is a small island in the northern reaches of the Venetian lagoon, a forty-five-minute ride from Venice by vaporetto (water-bus). Its population in 1982, the year Oxford anth…
A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano
Book Review| January 01 2005 A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano, Lidia D. Sciama. Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (467): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137814 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steve …
Life Is Beautiful: Four riddles, three answers
Four riddles occur in the dialogue of Roberto Benigni's 1998 film, La vita è bella ( Life Is Beautiful ). Solutions to the first three are provided almost as soon as they are uttered, but a fourth riddle, spoken at the film's climax, remains unanswered. Exploring possible meanings of the fourth riddle illuminates the film's meaning. Although the riddles may seem to be relatively unimportant bantering between two of the major characters (Guido, th…
Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself
T his anthology started taking shape almost a decade ago, independently and more or less simultaneously, in the minds of two of the volume's editors.We were widely separated geographically but alike in our regard for a teacher and mentor whose impact upon us and upon our field has been immense.Each of us imagined putting together a volume of essays in honor of him, and before long each learned, quietly networking among old schoolmates, that the o…
Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself
Journal Article Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself Get access Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself. Edited by Stewart Polly Siporin Steve Sullivan C.W.III Jones Suzi. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000. 257 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Barbara Allen Bogart Barbara Allen Bogart Evanston, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
On Scapegoating Public Folklore
The call to abandon the word folklore as the name for our discipline has apparently been abandoned itself - rather like the stories in which the villain meets the fate he thought had been prepared for his enemies. The discussion was fruitful, even reinvigorating, and although there were no villain or enemies, there were several heroes. Among those heroes, I would count Dan Ben-Amos, with his fine essay "The Name Is the Thing" (1998). In this essa…
From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes
From Kashrut to Cucina Ebraica: The Recasting of Italian Jewish Foodways
Italian Jewish cookbooks published in Italy from the 1930s to the 1980s frame recipes in two major ways: (1) within "traditional menus" for each festival of the Jewish annual cycle and (2) within the classic structure of the Italian meal. These simultaneously evoked frameworks provide a model of identity for Italian Jews, prescribing the integration of Jewish tradition with Italian and class aspiration
American Folk Masters: The National Heritage Fellows
A History of the Jews in New Mexico
Journal Article A History of the Jews in New Mexico Get access A History of the Jews in New Mexico. By Tobias Henry J.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. xiii + 294 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 101–102, …
Oralita: Cultura, Letteratura, Discorso
The Revolt of Job
Italian and Italian American Folk Music Recordings: Reply to Portelli
Siporin rightly notes that Italian Americans as such were not part of my intended audience. It may have been a mistake. record does include material they might be interested in: a ballad on Sacco and Vanzetti, a couple of references to emigration, a song abut a Mafia murder. Indeed-why is it that, on the evidence of standard collections of Italian American music, one might suspect that Mafia never existed and Sacco and Vanzetti never lived (and d…
Folk Art of Idaho: We Came to Where We Were Supposed to Be
Passing Time and Traditions: Contemporary Iowa Folk Artists
Italian-American Records
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
The Messiah Texts: Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
Sacro O Profano? A Consideration of Four Italian-Canadian Religious Festivals
From Kashrut to Cucina Ebraica: The Recasting of Italian Jewish Foodways
Italian Jewish cookbooks published in Italy from the 1930s to the 1980s frame recipes in two major ways: (1) within "traditional menus" for each festival of the Jewish annual cycle and (2) within the classic structure of the Italian meal. These simultaneously evoked frameworks provide a model of identity for Italian Jews, prescribing the integration of Jewish tradition with Italian and class aspiration
Sacro O Profano? A Consideration of Four Italian-Canadian Religious Festivals
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
The Messiah Texts: Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
Italian-American Records
Italian and Italian American Folk Music Recordings: Reply to Portelli
Siporin rightly notes that Italian Americans as such were not part of my intended audience. It may have been a mistake. record does include material they might be interested in: a ballad on Sacco and Vanzetti, a couple of references to emigration, a song abut a Mafia murder. Indeed-why is it that, on the evidence of standard collections of Italian American music, one might suspect that Mafia never existed and Sacco and Vanzetti never lived (and d…
Folk Art of Idaho: We Came to Where We Were Supposed to Be
Passing Time and Traditions: Contemporary Iowa Folk Artists
The Revolt of Job
Oralita: Cultura, Letteratura, Discorso
A History of the Jews in New Mexico
Journal Article A History of the Jews in New Mexico Get access A History of the Jews in New Mexico. By Tobias Henry J.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. xiii + 294 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 101–102, …
American Folk Masters: The National Heritage Fellows
From Kashrut to Cucina Ebraica: The Recasting of Italian Jewish Foodways
Italian Jewish cookbooks published in Italy from the 1930s to the 1980s frame recipes in two major ways: (1) within "traditional menus" for each festival of the Jewish annual cycle and (2) within the classic structure of the Italian meal. These simultaneously evoked frameworks provide a model of identity for Italian Jews, prescribing the integration of Jewish tradition with Italian and class aspiration
Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes
From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
On Scapegoating Public Folklore
The call to abandon the word folklore as the name for our discipline has apparently been abandoned itself - rather like the stories in which the villain meets the fate he thought had been prepared for his enemies. The discussion was fruitful, even reinvigorating, and although there were no villain or enemies, there were several heroes. Among those heroes, I would count Dan Ben-Amos, with his fine essay "The Name Is the Thing" (1998). In this essa…
Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself
Journal Article Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself Get access Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself. Edited by Stewart Polly Siporin Steve Sullivan C.W.III Jones Suzi. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000. 257 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Barbara Allen Bogart Barbara Allen Bogart Evanston, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Life Is Beautiful: Four riddles, three answers
Four riddles occur in the dialogue of Roberto Benigni's 1998 film, La vita è bella ( Life Is Beautiful ). Solutions to the first three are provided almost as soon as they are uttered, but a fourth riddle, spoken at the film's climax, remains unanswered. Exploring possible meanings of the fourth riddle illuminates the film's meaning. Although the riddles may seem to be relatively unimportant bantering between two of the major characters (Guido, th…
Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself
T his anthology started taking shape almost a decade ago, independently and more or less simultaneously, in the minds of two of the volume's editors.We were widely separated geographically but alike in our regard for a teacher and mentor whose impact upon us and upon our field has been immense.Each of us imagined putting together a volume of essays in honor of him, and before long each learned, quietly networking among old schoolmates, that the o…
A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano (review)
Reviewed by: A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano Steve Siporin A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano. By Lidia D. Sciama. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. Pp. xxii + 250, bibliography, illustrations, index, appendices.) Burano is a small island in the northern reaches of the Venetian lagoon, a forty-five-minute ride from Venice by vaporetto (water-bus). Its population in 1982, the year Oxford anth…
A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano
Book Review| January 01 2005 A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano A Venetian Island: Environment, History, and Change in Burano, Lidia D. Sciama. Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (467): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137814 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steve …
A Contemporary Legend from Italy
This legend describes how a romance goes awry when a young man proposes marriage by having a diamond engagement ring placed inside the hollow chocolate egg he gives his sweetheart for Easter. I first describe my attempt to discover the origin of the narrative and then I reflect on the reasons for its contemporary popularity. I find the reasons to be rooted in this legend’s seamless combining of local Perugian symbols with several layers of folklo…
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism (review)
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism
Book Review| January 01 2009 The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism, Ernesto De Martino and Dorothy Louise Zinn. Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2009) 122 (483): 104–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra
Book Review| October 01 2014 Leo Levi—The Man with the Nagra Leo Levi—The Man with the Nagra. 2011. By Yaala Levi Zimmerman. 90 min. DVD. In Hebrew and Italian, subtitles in English. (Jerusalem, Israel: Ruth Diskin, Ltd.). Steve Siporin Steve Siporin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (506): 470–471. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.127.506.0470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
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