Margaret A Mills

Biographic Data

ID3621904
NAMEMargaret A Mills
GIVEN NAMESMargaret A
FAMILY NAMEMills
SIGNATUREMILLS M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Introduction: Defining and Creating (A) New Critical Folklore Studies

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2020Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Afghano-Persian Trickster Women Definitions, Liminalities, and Gender

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEMarvels & Tales2018References: 4

    20th-century Persian-language oral storytelling in Afghanistan and Islamicate popular literature prominently featured women tricksters, characters poorly accommodated in existing trickster theory. The article argues that trickster may best be treated as archetype or stereotype, depending on genre (myth vs. folktale) and cultural tradition. Concepts of chronotope (M. Bakhtin), story realm and tale world (K. Young) are juxtaposed to trace dimension…

  • How stories lodge in lives

    Margaret A MillsARTICLESouth Asian History and Culture2017References: 9

    This article reviews South Asian and related ethnographic literature from the 1970s to the present, describing oral performance of narratives of various kinds, mostly by women, in South Asia. It highlights shared themes in this literature such as discussions of how performed narratives reflect upon and also contribute to the construction of social personhood by performers and their audiences, and notes that the works reviewed develop insights on …

  • Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2014

    Whatever the order of going, one learns a lot from this book about the cultural specificity of experiences and the complexities of recent and ongoing translations from performative practices grounded in specific local spiritual ex- periences and belief systems (moroccan Gnawa) to international entertainment genres and per- formance spaces (trance as a world mu- sic category, and world music as a performance circuit). while there are musicological…

  • Obituaries: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009)

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2011Cited by: 2

    Research Article| January 01 2011 Obituaries: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009) Margaret A. Mills Margaret A. Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (491): 88–89. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.491.0088 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon …

  • What('s) Theory

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEJournal of Folklore Research2008Cited by: 1References: 7

    Cultural theory is (a) interpretive, even metaphorical, (b) interdependent with method, and (c) developed in dialogue with a discursive community. Interpretive theory should thus be judged not for sovereignty-its power to exclude or preclude other theories-but for aptness: resonance with a knowable meaning system. High/low and local/ grand theorizing are discussed in relation to politics of knowledge

  • Afghan Women Leaders Speak: An Academic Activist Conference, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, November 17?19, 2005

    Margaret A Mills, Sally L KitchARTICLENWSA Journal2006

    Afghan women activists emphasize that the first and continuing need in Afghanistan is physical security, which will enable developments in education, health care, and women's fuller social and political participation. Recent legal and electoral reform from above does not yet substantially affect grassroots gender inequality, severe poverty, and lack of infrastructural development. Real reform will require long-term, culturally sensitive collabora…

  • Appropriating women's agendas*w

    Open AccessSally L Kitch, Margaret A MillsARTICLEPeace Review2004References: 4

  • The Gender of the Trick: Female Tricksters and Male Narrators

    Margaret A MillsARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2001Cited by: 4References: 5

    Western theories of myth (Radin, Babcock-Abrahams) have defined the trickster as a particularly complex and ambivalent mythological figure involved with creative cosmological events and with mythical moments when the order of things, physical or social, is undergoing transformation. Tricksters in folktales are akin to, but not identical with, the mythological forms. While one prominent feature of the trickster's personality is gender ambiguity, t…

  • Whose Best Tricks? Makr‐i Zan as a Topos in Persian Oral Literature

    Open AccessMargaret A Mills, Margaret MillsARTICLEIranian Studies1999Cited by: 5References: 2

    After the Recent Work of Merguerian and Najmabadi, Najmabadi, and Milani (in this volume), it can be little surprise that the topic of women's tricks (makr-i zan) is explicit and pervasive in traditional oral narrative in Persian-speaking communities. In afsānah or fictional folktales, makr-i zan serves as a generic title for a large, but shifting, corpus of individual tales which are perceived by their tellers as primarily concerned with the top…

  • Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture

    Margaret A Mills, Joan Newlon RadnetARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1997

  • Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

    Richard K Wolf, A Appadurai et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1996

  • Response to David B. Edwards's “Afghanistan, Ethnography, and the New World Order”: On the Involuntary Redrawing of Our Subject Matter

    Open AccessMargaret A MillsARTICLECultural Anthropology1994

  • Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. Nancy Tapper

    Open AccessMargaret A MillsARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994

  • Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore: A Twenty-Year Trajectory toward Theory

    Open AccessMargaret A Mills, Margaret MillsARTICLEWestern Folklore1993Cited by: 8References: 11

    A partir de deux numeros speciaux du Journal of American Folklore, l'A. analyse le lien entre la theorie folkloriste et la theorie feministe de ces 20 dernieres annees : il passe en revue les etudes folkloriques menees par les femmes et sur les femmes et l'analyse du rapport homme-femme dans de telles etudes

  • Coffee and Coffeehouses

    Margaret A Mills, Ralph S HattoxARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1990

  • Nāṣer-e Khosraw's Book of Travels (Safarnāma)

    Margaret A Mills, W M Thackston et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1989

  • "Various Children of Eve" (At 758): Cultural Variants and Antifeminine Images (Etnolore 5)

    Margaret A Mills, Virginia G GeddesARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1989

  • Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Open AccessBernard D Headley, Mario D Zamora et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1986

  • Some Women of Marrakesh

    Margaret A Mills, Melissa Llewellyn-Davies et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984