Robert Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 444475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | robert baron is Assistant Professor of Practice at Goucher College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2784-1518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices
UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) mandates participation by communities. Nevertheless, community agency is limited because activities associated with the Convention are driven and mediated by cultural specialists and governments. Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices, by Marilena Alivizatou, examines initiatives designed to share authority and enable communities …
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good is devoted to reflexive accounts of public folklore-related practice by folklorists and scholars from allied disciplines. Most of the 34 contributors have associations with the University of Wisconsin and/or research the Upper Midwest. The essays discuss actual and prospective public-sector activities, research about folklore in the public sphere, and projects centered in the academy but aspiring for wid…
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities
The "Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities" salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pand…
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices
Public folklore practice increasingly emphasizes enabling communities to shape and determine the direction of a project from inception through implementation. The "Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, explored how folklorists are sharing and yielding authority with community members, with an overarching objective of d…
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction
Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the implication of heritage in local economies, politics, and environmental justice. This special issue encompasses multiple domains of public folklore and heritage discourse, including museums, archives, and cu…
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice
The "Social Justice" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore's rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked to underlying conditions of social inequality. Exploring how the skill sets and resources of folklorists can intersect with heritage frameworks to ameliorate forms of social injustice, participants…
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage
The "Anticipatory Heritage" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. Wh…
Salons 4: Sustainabilities
The "Sustainabilities" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, drew together folklorists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, who were interested in frameworks for the study and stewardship of culture at the nexus of economy, ecology, nature, and the multi-species ethnographic and ontological turn. Conversations highlighted the continuing friction between public environmental policies grounded in Western instrument…
Práticas educativas dialógicas com análise multissemiótica de canções de denúncia
As canções de denúncia, como gênero de discurso, manifestações da linguagem viva, com enunciados completos e complexos, imbuídos de ideologias e memórias sociais, mobilizam interações discursivas multissemióticas, intergenéricas, multiculturais e cronotópicas, nas práticas educativas dialógicas de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas. Estas práticas possibilitam negociação consensual, entre professores e estudantes, na escolha de canções e temas valo…
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Practice – Public Folklore in US Higher Education
Higher education learning programs in folklore and ethnology should include training for the mastery of ICH and public folklore practices that are integrated with core curricula, grounded in theory and designed to build comprehensive professionalization of these disciplines. It should theorize practice and include engagement in actual projects with impacts beyond the classroom. A disjunction between theory and public practice which persisted for …
O Ensino E a Aprendizagem Da Escrita Na Língua Materna: Da Transdisciplinaridade Ao Colonialismo Implícito Nos Gêneros Exames De Larga Escala E Avaliações Do Desempenho Da Aprendizagem Dos Alunos Nas …
A reflexão desenvolvida ao longo do artigo procura desvendar relações de poder que, discursivamente, estão presentes e causam efeitos de dominação, no confronto entre a avaliação escolar aplicada por um professor de disciplina do currículo escolar, desde a educação básica ao ensino médio, e os exames de larga escala que geram os dados e índices do SAEB - Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica, e o Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudante…
Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring) Robert Baron Robert Baron Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and teaches in the master’s program in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 163–174. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524…
Unesco on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding and scholarship increasingly appropriate a domain long occupied by folklore. While ICH academic discourse rarely draws from folkloristics, engagement
Public folklore dialogism and critical heritage studies
Public folklore's dialogic engagement with communities incorporates methodologies for sharing representational and interpretive authority, collaborative programme development, mutually constructed modes of presentation and stakeholder participation in policy-making. While recognising that heritage interventions inevitably involve power asymmetries, public folklore seeks to mitigate and diminish these imbalances as it develops approaches to enable…
Heritage Regimes and the State
Book Review| October 01 2015 Heritage Regimes and the State Heritage Regimes and the State. Ed. Regina F. Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann. Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, Vol. 6. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012. Pp. 413, introduction, 5 photographs, tables, maps, graphs.). Robert Baron Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 478–481. …
States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue
Research Article| July 01 2014 States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue Kang Baocheng; Kang Baocheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Baron; Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wang Dun Wang Dun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (505): 264–284. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.…
The face in the crowd effect: Anger superiority when using real faces and multiple identities
The "face in the crowd effect" refers to the finding that threatening or angry faces are detected more efficiently among a crowd of distractor faces than happy or nonthreatening faces. Work establishing this effect has primarily utilized schematic stimuli and efforts to extend the effect to real faces have yielded inconsistent results. The failure to consistently translate the effect from schematic to human faces raises questions about its ecolog…
Sins of Objectification: Agency, Mediation, and Community Cultural Self-Determination in Public Folklore and Cultural Tourism Programming
Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and acc…
Sins of Objectification? Agency, Mediation, and Community Cultural Self-Determination in Public Folklore and Cultural Tourism Programming
Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and acc…
Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization
Creolists employ metaphor from a variety of semantic domains to render the processes through which cultures combine and to characterize new forms that emerge from their contact. Melville J. Herskovits, viewed as a proto-creolist, explored the retention and transformation of African cultural elements in the Americas. He used both metaphor and schematic, social-scientific explanations to create a conceptual framework for the study of acculturation …
Introduction: Creolization and Folklore--Cultural Creativity in Process
CREOLIZATION IS CULTURAL CREATIVITY in process. When cultures come into contact, expressive forms and performances emerge from their encounter, embodying the sources that shape them, yet constituting new and different entities. Fluid in their adaptation to changing circumstances and open to multiple meanings, creole forms are expressions of culture in transition and transformation. Traditionally associated with the new New World cultures of Carib…
Introduction: Creolization and Folklore: Cultural Creativity in Process
Introduction| January 01 2003 Introduction: Creolization and Folklore: Cultural Creativity in Process Robert Baron; Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ana C. Cara Ana C. Cara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (459): 4–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137938 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Public Folklore
Public Folklore
Public Folklore
Journal Article Public Folklore. Ed. By Robert Baron and Nicholas R. Spitzer. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-56098-142-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56098-117-2.) Get access Jane C. Beck Jane C. Beck Vermont Volklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1392, https://…
Public folklore dialogism and critical heritage studies
Public folklore's dialogic engagement with communities incorporates methodologies for sharing representational and interpretive authority, collaborative programme development, mutually constructed modes of presentation and stakeholder participation in policy-making. While recognising that heritage interventions inevitably involve power asymmetries, public folklore seeks to mitigate and diminish these imbalances as it develops approaches to enable…
Sins of Objectification? Agency, Mediation, and Community Cultural Self-Determination in Public Folklore and Cultural Tourism Programming
Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and acc…
Negative Emotion and Message Processing
Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization
Creolists employ metaphor from a variety of semantic domains to render the processes through which cultures combine and to characterize new forms that emerge from their contact. Melville J. Herskovits, viewed as a proto-creolist, explored the retention and transformation of African cultural elements in the Americas. He used both metaphor and schematic, social-scientific explanations to create a conceptual framework for the study of acculturation …
Introduction: Creolization and Folklore--Cultural Creativity in Process
CREOLIZATION IS CULTURAL CREATIVITY in process. When cultures come into contact, expressive forms and performances emerge from their encounter, embodying the sources that shape them, yet constituting new and different entities. Fluid in their adaptation to changing circumstances and open to multiple meanings, creole forms are expressions of culture in transition and transformation. Traditionally associated with the new New World cultures of Carib…
Syncretism and Ideology: Latin New York Salsa Musicians
Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring) Robert Baron Robert Baron Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and teaches in the master’s program in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 163–174. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524…
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices
Public folklore practice increasingly emphasizes enabling communities to shape and determine the direction of a project from inception through implementation. The "Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, explored how folklorists are sharing and yielding authority with community members, with an overarching objective of d…
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities
The "Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities" salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pand…
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction
Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the implication of heritage in local economies, politics, and environmental justice. This special issue encompasses multiple domains of public folklore and heritage discourse, including museums, archives, and cu…
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice
The "Social Justice" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore's rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked to underlying conditions of social inequality. Exploring how the skill sets and resources of folklorists can intersect with heritage frameworks to ameliorate forms of social injustice, participants…
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage
The "Anticipatory Heritage" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. Wh…
Salons 4: Sustainabilities
The "Sustainabilities" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, drew together folklorists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, who were interested in frameworks for the study and stewardship of culture at the nexus of economy, ecology, nature, and the multi-species ethnographic and ontological turn. Conversations highlighted the continuing friction between public environmental policies grounded in Western instrument…
Heritage Regimes and the State
Book Review| October 01 2015 Heritage Regimes and the State Heritage Regimes and the State. Ed. Regina F. Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann. Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, Vol. 6. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012. Pp. 413, introduction, 5 photographs, tables, maps, graphs.). Robert Baron Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 478–481. …
States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue
Research Article| July 01 2014 States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue Kang Baocheng; Kang Baocheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Baron; Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wang Dun Wang Dun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (505): 264–284. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.…
Syncretism and Ideology: Latin New York Salsa Musicians
Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America and the West Indies
Public Folklore
Multi-Paradigm Discipline, Inter-Disciplinary Field, Peering through and around the Interstices
Le folklore a du mal a se definir comme un champ d'etude independant. Depuis les annees 40, les folkloristes se sont efforces de donner une definition fixe de leur activite mais la scission avec l'anthropologie est difficile et differentes approches conceptuelles demeurent dont celle du folklore public qui, apres avoir ete denigre, est reapparue dans les annees 70
Public Folklore
Public Folklore
Journal Article Public Folklore. Ed. By Robert Baron and Nicholas R. Spitzer. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-56098-142-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56098-117-2.) Get access Jane C. Beck Jane C. Beck Vermont Volklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1392, https://…
Negative Emotion and Message Processing
Public Folklore
Public Folklore
Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations: Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization
Creolists employ metaphor from a variety of semantic domains to render the processes through which cultures combine and to characterize new forms that emerge from their contact. Melville J. Herskovits, viewed as a proto-creolist, explored the retention and transformation of African cultural elements in the Americas. He used both metaphor and schematic, social-scientific explanations to create a conceptual framework for the study of acculturation …
Introduction: Creolization and Folklore--Cultural Creativity in Process
CREOLIZATION IS CULTURAL CREATIVITY in process. When cultures come into contact, expressive forms and performances emerge from their encounter, embodying the sources that shape them, yet constituting new and different entities. Fluid in their adaptation to changing circumstances and open to multiple meanings, creole forms are expressions of culture in transition and transformation. Traditionally associated with the new New World cultures of Carib…
Introduction: Creolization and Folklore: Cultural Creativity in Process
Introduction| January 01 2003 Introduction: Creolization and Folklore: Cultural Creativity in Process Robert Baron; Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ana C. Cara Ana C. Cara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (459): 4–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137938 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
The face in the crowd effect: Anger superiority when using real faces and multiple identities
The "face in the crowd effect" refers to the finding that threatening or angry faces are detected more efficiently among a crowd of distractor faces than happy or nonthreatening faces. Work establishing this effect has primarily utilized schematic stimuli and efforts to extend the effect to real faces have yielded inconsistent results. The failure to consistently translate the effect from schematic to human faces raises questions about its ecolog…
Sins of Objectification: Agency, Mediation, and Community Cultural Self-Determination in Public Folklore and Cultural Tourism Programming
Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and acc…
Sins of Objectification? Agency, Mediation, and Community Cultural Self-Determination in Public Folklore and Cultural Tourism Programming
Critics claim that by objectifying culture, public folklorists limit or deny the agency of the practitioners of traditions whom they represent. This article analyzes how public folklorists engage dialogically with community members to mutually shape frames of representation, while facilitating community cultural self-determination. Arguing against a view of objectification as categorically exploitative, I demonstrate how agency is pursued and acc…
States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue
Research Article| July 01 2014 States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States: A Trialogue Kang Baocheng; Kang Baocheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Baron; Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wang Dun Wang Dun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (505): 264–284. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.…
Heritage Regimes and the State
Book Review| October 01 2015 Heritage Regimes and the State Heritage Regimes and the State. Ed. Regina F. Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann. Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, Vol. 6. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012. Pp. 413, introduction, 5 photographs, tables, maps, graphs.). Robert Baron Robert Baron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 478–481. …
Public folklore dialogism and critical heritage studies
Public folklore's dialogic engagement with communities incorporates methodologies for sharing representational and interpretive authority, collaborative programme development, mutually constructed modes of presentation and stakeholder participation in policy-making. While recognising that heritage interventions inevitably involve power asymmetries, public folklore seeks to mitigate and diminish these imbalances as it develops approaches to enable…
Unesco on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding and scholarship increasingly appropriate a domain long occupied by folklore. While ICH academic discourse rarely draws from folkloristics, engagement
Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring) Robert Baron Robert Baron Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and teaches in the master’s program in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 163–174. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524…
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Practice – Public Folklore in US Higher Education
Higher education learning programs in folklore and ethnology should include training for the mastery of ICH and public folklore practices that are integrated with core curricula, grounded in theory and designed to build comprehensive professionalization of these disciplines. It should theorize practice and include engagement in actual projects with impacts beyond the classroom. A disjunction between theory and public practice which persisted for …
O Ensino E a Aprendizagem Da Escrita Na Língua Materna: Da Transdisciplinaridade Ao Colonialismo Implícito Nos Gêneros Exames De Larga Escala E Avaliações Do Desempenho Da Aprendizagem Dos Alunos Nas …
A reflexão desenvolvida ao longo do artigo procura desvendar relações de poder que, discursivamente, estão presentes e causam efeitos de dominação, no confronto entre a avaliação escolar aplicada por um professor de disciplina do currículo escolar, desde a educação básica ao ensino médio, e os exames de larga escala que geram os dados e índices do SAEB - Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica, e o Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudante…
Práticas educativas dialógicas com análise multissemiótica de canções de denúncia
As canções de denúncia, como gênero de discurso, manifestações da linguagem viva, com enunciados completos e complexos, imbuídos de ideologias e memórias sociais, mobilizam interações discursivas multissemióticas, intergenéricas, multiculturais e cronotópicas, nas práticas educativas dialógicas de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas. Estas práticas possibilitam negociação consensual, entre professores e estudantes, na escolha de canções e temas valo…
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good is devoted to reflexive accounts of public folklore-related practice by folklorists and scholars from allied disciplines. Most of the 34 contributors have associations with the University of Wisconsin and/or research the Upper Midwest. The essays discuss actual and prospective public-sector activities, research about folklore in the public sphere, and projects centered in the academy but aspiring for wid…
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities
The "Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities" salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pand…
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