Michael Owen Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 519333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Owen Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)
Robert A. Georges died January 31, 2022, at the age of 88. Deeply committed to folklore studies, he had a tremendous impact on students, the development of the discipline of folkloristics, and the administration of a graduate program in folklore and mythology at UCLA.Bob, as he liked to be called, was born May 1, 1933, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He earned a BS degree in French and English in 1954 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a former s…
Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels: Researching Botánicas, Healing, and Power in Southern California
This essay presents results of an exploratory project from 2000-2002 on folk medicine among Latinx healers in Los Angeles, initiated because little research had been conducted on botánicas anywhere in the United States. The findings reveal that most of the healers are steeped in more than one religious and healing tradition, and that many of these specialists are not, as sometimes assumed, poorly educated, unsophisticated, or adversaries of biome…
Eating behind Bars: On Punishment, Resistance, Policy, and Applied Folkloristics
This essay examines diet, institutional control, and prisoner resistance and explores ways of improving the treatment of inmates for whom food is often a form of punishment. It addresses four questions: How does food contribute to the "pains of imprisonment"? What traditional strategies do individual prisoners employ in an effort to regain a sense of agency, autonomy, and identity? How can prisons restore their rehabilitative function by involvin…
Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual
This essay examines last meal requests by those facing execution. After surveying food and beverage selections, I explore how culinary choices are marked by ethnicity, region, class, and gender, as well as inflected by memories, the longing for certain sensory experiences, and the intent to make a moral, political, or philosophical statement. I also consider which last suppers and comments have inspired movies, TV shows, musical compositions, and…
Food Choice, Symbolism, and Identity: Bread and Butter Issues for Folkloristics and Nutrition Studies (American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2005)
Research on food abounds, from the history of differing types of fare to the relationship between provisioning and culture, gender roles, and eating disorders. In disciplines concerned with health and nutrition, few studies focus on the metaphorical aspects of alimentation; while many ethnographic works do deal with the symbolic nature of gastronomy, they tend to emphasize eating as commensality and food as an expression of identity in ethnic, re…
Food Choice, Symbolism, and Identity: Bread-and-Butter Issues for Folkloristics and Nutrition Studies (American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2005)
Research on food abounds, from the history of differing types of fare to the relationship between provisioning and culture, gender roles, and eating disorders. In disciplines concerned with health and nutrition, few studies focus on the metaphorical aspects of alimentation; while many ethnographic works do deal with the symbolic nature of gastronomy, they tend to emphasize eating as commensality and food as an expression of identity in ethnic, re…
"Tradition" in Identity Discourses and an Individual's Symbolic Construction of Self
In his eight-page introduction to The Study of American Folklore (1978), Jan Harold Brunvand employs 46 times to characterize and explain what folklorists document and analyze. From the Latin tradere - to give, deliver, hand - is crucial to all definitions of folklore. Explanations of the concept are notably missing, however, not only from Brunvand's book and most other texts but also standard references like Kenneth and Mary Clarke's A Concise F…
Folkloristics: An Introduction
Introduction Chapter 1: Folklore and Its Study Folkore As Historical Artifact Chapter 2: Folkloristics as an Historical Science Chapter 3: Survival, Continuity, Revival, and Historical Source Folklore As Describable and Transmissible Entity Chapter 4: Folklore as Genre and Type Chapter 5: The Dissemination of Folklore Folklore As Culture Chapter 6: Folklore in Cultural Contexts Chapter 7: Folklore in the Culture of Groups in Contact Folklore As B…
Introducing Folklore: A Review Essay
Folkloristics: An Introduction. By Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 336. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) The Study of American Folklore: An Introducti By Jan Harold Brunvand. (New York: Norton, 1997. 4th Edition. Originally published 1968. Pp. xxiv + 640. $31.95 cloth) The Dynamics of Folklore. By Barre Toelken. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. Revised and expanded edition. Ori…
Photocopylore at work: Aesthetics, collective creativity and the social construction of organizations
In this paper we develop a model of the photocopylore process consisting of selection, reproduction and distribution with further potential for consumption and elaboration. After explaining and illustrating these practices, which are always aesthetic and sometimes political, we discuss how our model contributes to theorizing social construction processes, both in terms of the creation and maintenance of organizational and transorganizational comm…
How Can We Apply Event Analysis to "Material Behavior," and Why Should We
In 1969, Robert A. Georges published a seminal article, Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events. The essay challenged long-standing notions about nature of stories, process of story transmission and change, and meaning and significance of stories. Georges criticized premise stories are surviving or traditional linguistic and the a priori assumption means of discovering meaning and significance of these entities is through collection and st…
The Ribbon around the Pentagon
The Ribbon Around the Pentagon. By Linda Pershing. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. $45.00 cloth, $22.50 paper) In 1985 more than 20,000 women marched on Washington, D. C., surrounding the Pentagon and other buildings with a 15-mile long ribbon of panels they had sewn in protest of nuclear armament. The Ribbon was the brainchild three years earlier of Justine Merritt, a fifty-nine-year-old former high school teacher in Denver,…
Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity
Michael Owen Jones's study of chairmaking in southeastern Kentucky focuses on rural woodworker Chester Cornett. Cornett found a sense of security, stability, and self-esteem in the structures of his chairs and the virtuosity of their design. Considering other area craftsmen for comparison, Jones explores why people value aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects. He looks deeper still into the nature of the…
The 1995 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. Why Make (Folk) Art
S'appuyant sur des etudes recentes d'art et d'artistes populaires americains, l'A. montre les raisons qui poussent a creer, a faire de l'art et de l'esthetique : les aspects du sensoriel, de l'ordre et de l'ideal sont lies a la specificite de construire a partir de la vie quotidienne quelque chose d'extraordinaire. Ces creations d'art populaire evoquent l'histoire, la famille, la communaute et le voisinage. Elles servent a former, a clarifier et …
Putting Folklore to Use
Traditions in Clay: C. J. and Cleater Meaders
Spirits in the Wood: The Chainsaw Art of Skip Armstrong
An in-depth portrait of a man, his art, his philosophy, and his creative process, this work cuts across folk and fine art boundaries to explore the energized world and works of chainsaw artist J. Chester Armstrong. Skip describes the forces that drive him: The chainsaw allows you that moment of thinking translated immediately into the act of creating
Mountain Homespun
Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics
The World of the Kalevala: Essays in Celebration of the 150 Year Jubilee of the Publication of the Finnish National Epic
Why Folklore and Organization(s)
Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity
A Folklore Approach to Emotions in Work
Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work and Aesthetics
One also gets from these essays a clearer sense of the multiple functions of play. Play not only relieves stress, boredom, and a sense of dependency, but it also allows mutual testing and the building of trust between co-workers. It humanizes the workplace. It creates a sense of community, provides an outlet for creativity, and preserves a degree of personal integrity and selfesteem. Given its importance, one can only welcome the emphasis these e…
When You're up to Your Ass in Alligators… More Urban Folklore from the Paper-Work Empire
Collects and analyzes office copier folklore and discusses how they reflect major concerns in American values and worldview
The Affecting Presence: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
Food Choice, Symbolism, and Identity: Bread and Butter Issues for Folkloristics and Nutrition Studies (American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2005)
Research on food abounds, from the history of differing types of fare to the relationship between provisioning and culture, gender roles, and eating disorders. In disciplines concerned with health and nutrition, few studies focus on the metaphorical aspects of alimentation; while many ethnographic works do deal with the symbolic nature of gastronomy, they tend to emphasize eating as commensality and food as an expression of identity in ethnic, re…
Folkloristics: An Introduction
Introduction Chapter 1: Folklore and Its Study Folkore As Historical Artifact Chapter 2: Folkloristics as an Historical Science Chapter 3: Survival, Continuity, Revival, and Historical Source Folklore As Describable and Transmissible Entity Chapter 4: Folklore as Genre and Type Chapter 5: The Dissemination of Folklore Folklore As Culture Chapter 6: Folklore in Cultural Contexts Chapter 7: Folklore in the Culture of Groups in Contact Folklore As B…
The Hand Made Object and Its Maker
European and non-European societies, in its judgments of the reliability of official documents, and in its unsentimental dissection of political motives, this book is obviously a product of its time-post-Vietnam War, post-Watergate. It is strongly recommended to specialists in culture contact, northeastern ethnohistory, and the historical roots of modern colonial politics and warfare, as well as to anthropologists concerned about interdisciplinar…
Graven Images, New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815
"Tradition" in Identity Discourses and an Individual's Symbolic Construction of Self
In his eight-page introduction to The Study of American Folklore (1978), Jan Harold Brunvand employs 46 times to characterize and explain what folklorists document and analyze. From the Latin tradere - to give, deliver, hand - is crucial to all definitions of folklore. Explanations of the concept are notably missing, however, not only from Brunvand's book and most other texts but also standard references like Kenneth and Mary Clarke's A Concise F…
Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels: Researching Botánicas, Healing, and Power in Southern California
This essay presents results of an exploratory project from 2000-2002 on folk medicine among Latinx healers in Los Angeles, initiated because little research had been conducted on botánicas anywhere in the United States. The findings reveal that most of the healers are steeped in more than one religious and healing tradition, and that many of these specialists are not, as sometimes assumed, poorly educated, unsophisticated, or adversaries of biome…
Eating behind Bars: On Punishment, Resistance, Policy, and Applied Folkloristics
This essay examines diet, institutional control, and prisoner resistance and explores ways of improving the treatment of inmates for whom food is often a form of punishment. It addresses four questions: How does food contribute to the "pains of imprisonment"? What traditional strategies do individual prisoners employ in an effort to regain a sense of agency, autonomy, and identity? How can prisons restore their rehabilitative function by involvin…
Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual
This essay examines last meal requests by those facing execution. After surveying food and beverage selections, I explore how culinary choices are marked by ethnicity, region, class, and gender, as well as inflected by memories, the longing for certain sensory experiences, and the intent to make a moral, political, or philosophical statement. I also consider which last suppers and comments have inspired movies, TV shows, musical compositions, and…
Why Folklore and Organization(s)
Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art
The Concept of "Aesthetic" in the Traditional Arts
Soda-Fountain, Restaurant, and Tavern Calls
Francis Hindes Groome: Scholar Gypsy and Gypsy Scholar
IN FRANCIS HINDES GROOME'S lifetime his fellow gypsiologists admitted their scholarly debt to him, remarking on his extensive knowledge of things Gypsy. Folklorists, however, have been less attracted to his works.' Summing up his career in I899, Groome modestly concluded: am no folklorist; I have merely dabbled in folklore as a branch of the great Egyptian Question, which includes also intricate problems of philology, ethnology, crainology, archa…
Food Choice, Symbolism, and Identity: Bread-and-Butter Issues for Folkloristics and Nutrition Studies (American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2005)
Research on food abounds, from the history of differing types of fare to the relationship between provisioning and culture, gender roles, and eating disorders. In disciplines concerned with health and nutrition, few studies focus on the metaphorical aspects of alimentation; while many ethnographic works do deal with the symbolic nature of gastronomy, they tend to emphasize eating as commensality and food as an expression of identity in ethnic, re…
How Can We Apply Event Analysis to "Material Behavior," and Why Should We
In 1969, Robert A. Georges published a seminal article, Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events. The essay challenged long-standing notions about nature of stories, process of story transmission and change, and meaning and significance of stories. Georges criticized premise stories are surviving or traditional linguistic and the a priori assumption means of discovering meaning and significance of these entities is through collection and st…
Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics
Alternatives to Local (Re-) Surveys of Incidental Depth Projects
For Myself I like a Decent, Plain-Made Chair: The Concept of Taste and the Traditional Arts in America
Early New England Gravestone Rubbings
They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore
Mustangs and Cow Horses
Folklore & Society, Essays in Honor of Benj. A. Botkin
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Soda-Fountain, Restaurant, and Tavern Calls
Early New England Gravestone Rubbings
They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore
Die Bauernhauser des Kantons Graubunden, Band I: Die Wohnbauten
Francis Hindes Groome: Scholar Gypsy and Gypsy Scholar
IN FRANCIS HINDES GROOME'S lifetime his fellow gypsiologists admitted their scholarly debt to him, remarking on his extensive knowledge of things Gypsy. Folklorists, however, have been less attracted to his works.' Summing up his career in I899, Groome modestly concluded: am no folklorist; I have merely dabbled in folklore as a branch of the great Egyptian Question, which includes also intricate problems of philology, ethnology, crainology, archa…
Graven Images, New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815
Anvil Shooting
A Collection of Folklore by Undergraduate Students of East Tennessee State University
Dear Ones at Home: Letters from Contraband Camps
Neighbor and Kin: Life in a Tennessee Ridge Community
Folk Art Production and the Folklorist's Obligation
The Concept of "Aesthetic" in the Traditional Arts
The Affecting Presence: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
For Myself I like a Decent, Plain-Made Chair: The Concept of Taste and the Traditional Arts in America
Wow-Ipits: Eight Woodcarvers of New Guinea
The Useful and the Useless in Folk Art
Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art
Why Faith Healing
Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
Alternatives to Local (Re-) Surveys of Incidental Depth Projects
The Hand Made Object and Its Maker
European and non-European societies, in its judgments of the reliability of official documents, and in its unsentimental dissection of political motives, this book is obviously a product of its time-post-Vietnam War, post-Watergate. It is strongly recommended to specialists in culture contact, northeastern ethnohistory, and the historical roots of modern colonial politics and warfare, as well as to anthropologists concerned about interdisciplinar…
Craftsmen of Necessity
American Folklife
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