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Janet Langlois

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ID5519931
NAMEJanet Langlois
GIVEN NAMESJanet
FAMILY NAMELanglois
SIGNATURELANGLOIS J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX1
  • Confessions of a Legend Hunter in the U.S.A

    Open Access•Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Cahiers de littérature orale•2008

    L’auteur décrit le terrain d’une « chasseur de légendes » aux États-Unis depuis les années 1970. Elle démontre ses différentes pratiques, en commençant par une ethnographie classique, puis une ethnographie intime, en passant par une ethnographie de l’ombre, pour aboutir à une forme d’ethnographie partagée

  • Smuggling Across the Windsor-Detroit Border

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Ethnologies•1991

    Acts of border smuggling, and the stories about them, are folk art for they reveal culturally-shared strategies for moving goods from one country to the other and for duping Customs officiais in the process. Yet they are more. A case is made here through the micro-analysis of family smuggling across the “Windsor-Detroit Funnel” that gender differences revealed in smuggling strategies ultimately articulate complex problems in border relations and …

  • Belle Gunness

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•BOOK•Belle Gunness, the lady Bluebeard•1985

    The Guinness Book of World Records has in twelve editions listed Belle Gunness under the category "Most Prolific Murderers." She earned the epithet the Lady Bluebeard because she is believed to have killed as many as twenty spouses. She settled on a farm on the outskirts of LaPorte, Indiana, in 1901. Over the next seven years it is believed that she killed a husband, children, and an indeterminate number of would-be suitors who answered her matri…

  • Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Journal of the Folklore Institute•1978•Cited by: 1

    Analyse des differentes versions d'une legende originaire d'un village d'Indiana, et concernant une femme criminelle du debut du siecle. Interpretation de cette legende en tant que metaphore des relations sociales de voisinage

  • Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Journal of the Folklore Institute•1978•Cited by: 1

    Analyse des differentes versions d'une legende originaire d'un village d'Indiana, et concernant une femme criminelle du debut du siecle. Interpretation de cette legende en tant que metaphore des relations sociales de voisinage

  • Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Journal of the Folklore Institute•1978•Cited by: 1

    Analyse des differentes versions d'une legende originaire d'un village d'Indiana, et concernant une femme criminelle du debut du siecle. Interpretation de cette legende en tant que metaphore des relations sociales de voisinage

  • Belle Gunness

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•BOOK•Belle Gunness, the lady Bluebeard•1985

    The Guinness Book of World Records has in twelve editions listed Belle Gunness under the category "Most Prolific Murderers." She earned the epithet the Lady Bluebeard because she is believed to have killed as many as twenty spouses. She settled on a farm on the outskirts of LaPorte, Indiana, in 1901. Over the next seven years it is believed that she killed a husband, children, and an indeterminate number of would-be suitors who answered her matri…

  • Smuggling Across the Windsor-Detroit Border

    Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Ethnologies•1991

    Acts of border smuggling, and the stories about them, are folk art for they reveal culturally-shared strategies for moving goods from one country to the other and for duping Customs officiais in the process. Yet they are more. A case is made here through the micro-analysis of family smuggling across the “Windsor-Detroit Funnel” that gender differences revealed in smuggling strategies ultimately articulate complex problems in border relations and …

  • Confessions of a Legend Hunter in the U.S.A

    Open Access•Janet L Langlois, Janet Langlois•ARTICLE•Cahiers de littérature orale•2008

    L’auteur décrit le terrain d’une « chasseur de légendes » aux États-Unis depuis les années 1970. Elle démontre ses différentes pratiques, en commençant par une ethnographie classique, puis une ethnographie intime, en passant par une ethnographie de l’ombre, pour aboutir à une forme d’ethnographie partagée

Art (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Legend (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Sports and Literature (1 work) · Belle Gunness (1859-1908) (1 work) · biography (1 work)

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