Timothy R Tangherlini
Biographic Data
| ID | 694413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy R Tangherlini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy R |
| FAMILY NAME | Tangherlini |
| SIGNATURE | TANGHERLINI T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1775-2052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Uncertainty in humanities network visualization
Network visualization is one of the most widely used tools in digital humanities research. The idea of uncertain or “fuzzy” data is also a core notion in digital humanities research. Yet network visualizations in digital humanities do not always prominently represent uncertainty. In this article, we present a mathematical and logical model of uncertainty as a range of values which can be used in network visualizations. We review some of the princ…
Disentangling the Folklore Hairball: A Network Approach to the Characterization of a Large Folktale Corpus
The ATU tale type index and the Motif Index of Folk-Literature have formed the basis for many comparative folktale studies. While the indices have been used extensively for the study of small groups of folktales and their associated motifs, there have been few attempts of describing a large linguistically and culturally unified corpus through its indexing. The study corpus consists of 2,606 folktales collected by Evald Tang Kristensen in nineteen…
The Social Science of QAnon: A New Social and Political Phenomenon
QAnon has emerged as the defining conspiracy group of our times, and its far-right conspiracies are extraordinary for their breadth and extremity. Bringing together scholars from psychology, sociology, communications, and political science, this cutting-edge volume uses social science theory to investigate aspects of QAnon. Following an introduction to the 'who, what, and why' of QAnon, Part I focuses on the psychological characteristics of QAnon…
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas
In an exceptionally timely book, the authors—two folklorists (John Bodner and Ian Brodie), a historian (Donald Leech), two public health experts (Anna Muldoon and Wendy Welch), and an attorney and policy expert (Ashley Marshall)—combine intellectual forces to explore the complexities of the conspiracy theories that gained enormous traction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team marshals the perspectives of these diverse fields to provide historic…
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)
Michael Chesnutt passed away in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2022.His contributions to the field of folklore are wide-ranging, and his work is well known to the readers of Folklore given his decades-long engagement with questions of narrative, diffusion, and the complex intersections of borrowing and influence in oral and written traditions
Comparative K-Pop Choreography Analysis through Deep-Learning Pose Estimation across a Large Video Corpus
The recent advent of deep learning-based pose detection methods that can reliably detect human body/limb positions from video frames, together with the online availability of massive digital video corpora, gives digital humanities researchers the ability to conduct "distant viewing" analyses of movement and particularly full-body choreography at much larger scales than previously feasible. These developments make possible innovative, revelatory d…
Conspiracy in the time of corona: Automatic detection of emerging Covid-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the COVID-19 pandemic are proliferating given the lack of scientific consensus on the virus's spread and containment, or on the long-term social and economic ramifications of the pandemic. Among the stories currently circulating in US-focused social media forums are ones suggesting that the 5G telecommunic…
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Research Article| October 01 2019 Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini SASS President Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2019) 91 (3): 421–426. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.91.3.0421 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy R. Tangherlini; Repor…
Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy
Book Review| January 01 2019 Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy. By Regina F. Bendix, Kilian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. x + 130, index.). Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American …
The Tell-Tale Hat: Surfacing the Uncertainty in Folklore Classification
Classification is a vexing problem in folkloristics. Although broad genre classifications such as "ballad", "folktale", "legend", "proverb", and "riddle" are well established and widely accepted, these formal classifications are coarse and do little more than provide a first level sort on materials for collections that can easily include tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of records. Many large collections of folklore have been classified using …
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Other| April 01 2018 Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini SASS President Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (1): 153–156. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.1.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy R. Tangherlini; Report of the Pres…
The Tell-Tale Hat: Surfacing the Uncertainty in Folklore Classification
Classification is a vexing problem in folkloristics. Although broad genre classifications such as “ballad”, “folktale”, “legend”, “proverb”, and “riddle” are well established and widely accepted, these formal classifications are coarse and dolittle more than provide a first level sort on materials for collections that can easily include tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of records
Toward a Generative Model of Legend: Pizzas, Bridges, Vaccines, and Witches
We propose a generative model of the legend. The model is elaborated based on two case studies, the first of contemporary storytelling related to vaccination on parenting blogs, and the second of historical storytelling related to witchcraft and folk healing in nineteenth century Denmark. The model reveals the interdependent levels of the multiscale model, solving a problem of poor fit related to many two level models of folklore genre structure.…
Folklore Unbound: A Concise Introduction
Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
Winkin and Leeds-Hurwitz have succeeded in presenting a succinct, eminently readable introduction to the work of Erving Goffman, whose contributions to the study of performance, interaction, and ex
Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics
Research Article| January 01 2016 Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2016) 129 (511): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.129.511.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy R. Tangherlini; Big Folklore: A Special Issu…
WitchHunter: Tools for the Geo-Semantic Exploration of a Danish Folklore Corpus
Researchers of traditional storytelling are largely limited to existing indices for the discovery of stories. These indices rarely include geo-indexing, despite a fundamental premise of folkloristics that stories are closely related to the physical environment. Consequently, it is often difficult for folklore researchers to address questions that relate story topics to geographic location. To address this problem, we propose WitchHunter, a suite …
Tang Kristensen og tidlig feltforsking In Danmark: National etnografi og folklore 1850–1920 [Tang Kristensen and early field research in Denmark: National ethnography and folklore 1850–1920]
Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929) is widely recognized as the single most prolific collector of folklore in the world. Focusing his collecting efforts almost exclusively on the Danish peninsula of
Sites of (re)Collection: Creating the Danish Folklore Nexus
We explore the scholarly concerns and technical considerations involved in creating a digital interface to the folklore collections of Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929), one of the world’s most prolific collectors of folklore. The two interfaces we designed, the Danish Folklore Nexus (DFL 1.0) and ETKSpace (DFL 2.0), represent differing approaches to the challenges inherent in curating a large collection of non-digital materials for online presen…
IceMorph: An Automated Morphological Analyzer and English-Language Lookup Tool for Old Icelandic
Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture
Trawling in the Sea of the Great Unread: Sub-corpus topic modeling and Humanities research
Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3
Book Review| October 01 2011 Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3 Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3, Mette Hjort. Timothy Tangherlini Timothy Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2011) 83 (3): 455–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/23075481 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy …
The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources
Book Review| December 01 2010 The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources, Niels Ingwersen. Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2010) 82 (4): 465–469. https://doi.org/10.2307/25769045 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Conspiracy in the time of corona: Automatic detection of emerging Covid-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the COVID-19 pandemic are proliferating given the lack of scientific consensus on the virus's spread and containment, or on the long-term social and economic ramifications of the pandemic. Among the stories currently circulating in US-focused social media forums are ones suggesting that the 5G telecommunic…
Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Tactics among Paramedics
Among paramedics, part of the working day consists of telling stories about emergency responses - rehashing the events that are the raison d'être of their profession. In the downtime between calls, the medics attempt to fit the day's events into their broader conception of their work. Among the medics in my fieldwork area, I have found a deeply cynical and self-deprecatory storytelling tradition - one that countermands the media representations o…
Trawling in the Sea of the Great Unread: Sub-corpus topic modeling and Humanities research
It Happened Not Too Far from Here: A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization
How Do You Know She's a Witch: Witches, Cunning Folk, and Competition in Denmark
In Danish legend tradition, the is perhaps the best known example of a supernatural threat in human form residing within the boundaries of the community.1 The witch, as she is presented in tradition, appears as a terrifying and at times vindictive menace, intent on wreaking economic and physical havoc on otherwise seemingly safe rural communities.2 In hundreds of accusations from seventeenth century court proceedings, in thousands of stories from…
Interpreting Legend: Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires
Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics
Research Article| January 01 2016 Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2016) 129 (511): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.129.511.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy R. Tangherlini; Big Folklore: A Special Issu…
Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945
Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945. By Kathleen Stokker. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. 273. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $17.95 paper) In this handsome paperback edition of an earlier hardback edition (1995), Kathleen Stokker introduces a fascinating aspect of Norway's history during the Second World War. Stokker illustrates how jokes and other aspects of folk culture were mobilized in r…
WitchHunter: Tools for the Geo-Semantic Exploration of a Danish Folklore Corpus
Researchers of traditional storytelling are largely limited to existing indices for the discovery of stories. These indices rarely include geo-indexing, despite a fundamental premise of folkloristics that stories are closely related to the physical environment. Consequently, it is often difficult for folklore researchers to address questions that relate story topics to geographic location. To address this problem, we propose WitchHunter, a suite …
Sites of (re)Collection: Creating the Danish Folklore Nexus
We explore the scholarly concerns and technical considerations involved in creating a digital interface to the folklore collections of Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929), one of the world’s most prolific collectors of folklore. The two interfaces we designed, the Danish Folklore Nexus (DFL 1.0) and ETKSpace (DFL 2.0), represent differing approaches to the challenges inherent in curating a large collection of non-digital materials for online presen…
Legendary Performances Folklore, Repertoire and Mapping
Maps can play an important role in understanding the close connection between individuals, their lived environment and their story repertoires. The legend genre is particularly related to local environment. Although the original historic-geographic method proposed by Kaarle and Julius Krohn has been largely abandoned by folklorists, the role the map can play in advancing our understanding of the important relationships between teller, told and th…
And the Wagon Came Rolling In: Legend and the Politics of (Self-) Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
Buried in the thousands of pages of Evald Tang Kristensen’s remarkable collection of nineteenth century Danish folklore is an amusing, yet shockingly obscene, story told by “Bitte” Jens Kristensen, a cobbler and smallholder from northern Jutland. Tang Kristensen’s decision to break the story into three parts, publishing two of those parts separately, and not publishing the most obscene section of the story, is an intriguing case of politically mo…
Who ya gonna call: Ministers and the Mediation of Ghostly Threat in Danish Legend Tradition
A la fin du XIX eme siecle au Danemark, la tradition populaire indiquait que le recours a un mediateur ou ministre s'averait une coutume lors de l'apparition d'un fantome ou d'un revenant. Mais la fonction mediatrice de ces ministres n'etait pas toujours un succes et le recours a d'autres personnes reputees savantes (diacres, etudiants, guerisseurs) montre la reevaluation du pouvoir social, politique et religieux de l'Eglise lutherienne danoise a…
Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia
This article examines the various forms the plague assumes in the legend traditions of Scandinavia. Eight new legend types are proposed in an effort to expand the existing type-index to more adequately describe the legend corpus. Common to all traditions are legends concerning the aftermath of the plague. The legends of Norway and Sweden often present the plague as a wandering woman or as a pair of children with a rake and broom. These legends ar…
It Happened Not Too Far from Here: A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization
An Initiation Kut for a Korean Shaman
Interpreting Legend: Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires
Interpreting Legend: Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires
Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945
Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945. By Kathleen Stokker. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. 273. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $17.95 paper) In this handsome paperback edition of an earlier hardback edition (1995), Kathleen Stokker introduces a fascinating aspect of Norway's history during the Second World War. Stokker illustrates how jokes and other aspects of folk culture were mobilized in r…
Talking Trauma: Storytelling among Paramedics
Camp Arirang
Who ya gonna call: Ministers and the Mediation of Ghostly Threat in Danish Legend Tradition
A la fin du XIX eme siecle au Danemark, la tradition populaire indiquait que le recours a un mediateur ou ministre s'averait une coutume lors de l'apparition d'un fantome ou d'un revenant. Mais la fonction mediatrice de ces ministres n'etait pas toujours un succes et le recours a d'autres personnes reputees savantes (diacres, etudiants, guerisseurs) montre la reevaluation du pouvoir social, politique et religieux de l'Eglise lutherienne danoise a…
Los Angeles Intersections (Folklore and the City)
Los Angeles Intersections (Folklore and the City)1* Los Angeles holds special place in the imaginations of people around the world. The global familiarity with the city is in large part attributable to the extraordinary influence that the film and television industries have had during the past eighty or so years. In these media, the city often plays significant (albeit largely uncredited) role as the backdropLos Angeles is the place where the sto…
Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Tactics among Paramedics
Among paramedics, part of the working day consists of telling stories about emergency responses - rehashing the events that are the raison d'être of their profession. In the downtime between calls, the medics attempt to fit the day's events into their broader conception of their work. Among the medics in my fieldwork area, I have found a deeply cynical and self-deprecatory storytelling tradition - one that countermands the media representations o…
How Do You Know She's a Witch: Witches, Cunning Folk, and Competition in Denmark
In Danish legend tradition, the is perhaps the best known example of a supernatural threat in human form residing within the boundaries of the community.1 The witch, as she is presented in tradition, appears as a terrifying and at times vindictive menace, intent on wreaking economic and physical havoc on otherwise seemingly safe rural communities.2 In hundreds of accusations from seventeenth century court proceedings, in thousands of stories from…
Alan Dundes (1934–2005): In Memoriam
Alan Dundes died at the University of California, Berkeley, on 30 March 2005, doing what he loved--teaching folklore theory and methods to a group of advanced folklore students. He was widely recognised as one of the most important folklorists of all time. He did not limit himself to a single aspect of folkloristic enquiry--indeed, Wolfgang Mieder noted there is no folklore genre that [Dundes] has not (Mieder 1994, 3). Professor Dundes's studies …
And the Wagon Came Rolling In: Legend and the Politics of (Self-) Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
Buried in the thousands of pages of Evald Tang Kristensen’s remarkable collection of nineteenth century Danish folklore is an amusing, yet shockingly obscene, story told by “Bitte” Jens Kristensen, a cobbler and smallholder from northern Jutland. Tang Kristensen’s decision to break the story into three parts, publishing two of those parts separately, and not publishing the most obscene section of the story, is an intriguing case of politically mo…
The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources
Book Review| December 01 2010 The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes and Sources, Niels Ingwersen. Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2010) 82 (4): 465–469. https://doi.org/10.2307/25769045 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Legendary Performances Folklore, Repertoire and Mapping
Maps can play an important role in understanding the close connection between individuals, their lived environment and their story repertoires. The legend genre is particularly related to local environment. Although the original historic-geographic method proposed by Kaarle and Julius Krohn has been largely abandoned by folklorists, the role the map can play in advancing our understanding of the important relationships between teller, told and th…
Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3
Book Review| October 01 2011 Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3 Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners. Nordic Film Classics 3, Mette Hjort. Timothy Tangherlini Timothy Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2011) 83 (3): 455–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/23075481 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy …
Trawling in the Sea of the Great Unread: Sub-corpus topic modeling and Humanities research
Sites of (re)Collection: Creating the Danish Folklore Nexus
We explore the scholarly concerns and technical considerations involved in creating a digital interface to the folklore collections of Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929), one of the world’s most prolific collectors of folklore. The two interfaces we designed, the Danish Folklore Nexus (DFL 1.0) and ETKSpace (DFL 2.0), represent differing approaches to the challenges inherent in curating a large collection of non-digital materials for online presen…
IceMorph: An Automated Morphological Analyzer and English-Language Lookup Tool for Old Icelandic
Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture
Tang Kristensen og tidlig feltforsking In Danmark: National etnografi og folklore 1850–1920 [Tang Kristensen and early field research in Denmark: National ethnography and folklore 1850–1920]
Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929) is widely recognized as the single most prolific collector of folklore in the world. Focusing his collecting efforts almost exclusively on the Danish peninsula of
Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
Winkin and Leeds-Hurwitz have succeeded in presenting a succinct, eminently readable introduction to the work of Erving Goffman, whose contributions to the study of performance, interaction, and ex
Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics
Research Article| January 01 2016 Big Folklore: A Special Issue on Computational Folkloristics Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2016) 129 (511): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.129.511.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy R. Tangherlini; Big Folklore: A Special Issu…
WitchHunter: Tools for the Geo-Semantic Exploration of a Danish Folklore Corpus
Researchers of traditional storytelling are largely limited to existing indices for the discovery of stories. These indices rarely include geo-indexing, despite a fundamental premise of folkloristics that stories are closely related to the physical environment. Consequently, it is often difficult for folklore researchers to address questions that relate story topics to geographic location. To address this problem, we propose WitchHunter, a suite …
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