Paul Jordan-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 699090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Jordan-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN-SMITH P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico (review)
Reviewed by: Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico Paul Jordan-Smith Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico. By Deidre Sklar. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, + 230, illustrations, notes, references, index.) In 1986, Deidre Sklar moved from New York City to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to engage in research on her doctoral dissertation. In Dancing Wi…
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2005 Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico, Deidre Sklar. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (470): 497–498. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137676 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Pe…
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre (review)
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre,Studia Fennica, Folkloristica, 10. By Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj. (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001. Pp. 186, bibliography, index.)
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing (review)
Diana Crane's study of fashion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, England, and America is a must-read for folklorists wishing to grapple with the dynamics of fashion and its effects on Euro-American culture. Her familiarity with clothing history is wonderfully demonstrated throughout, and she makes good use of four essential sources of data: her own case studies of Paris, London, and New York fashion industries; interviews with focus gr…
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Book Review| January 01 2004 Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, Diana Crane. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (463): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137628 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre
Book Review| April 01 2004 Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre, Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 204–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen
Perspectives on the Tales and Other North American Marchen. Edited by Carl Lindahl. (Bloomington: Folklore Institute, 2002. Pp. vii + 179, foreword, photographs, notes, bibliography. $17.95 paper) Sixty years after Richard Chase cast his spell in folklore circles and the general public with The Tales, the continues to beguile us: if, in fact, there is such an identifiable as (which in turn raises the question of whether and subgenre are still use…
An Instinct for Dragons
About That Swing: "Sleaze" Dancing and Community Norms at River Falls Lodge
It's 6:15 on a Saturday evening in late spring. You've been driving less than an hour along U.S. Highway 276 from Greenville, South Carolina, past Traveler's Rest and Marietta, looking for an F Mart store and signs for Jones Gap State Park and River Falls Road. When you come to the junction, you turn right and follow the road four miles or so. Just after you pass the fire station and Gap Creek Road, you turn right on River Falls Lodge Road and go…
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A Study of Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
About That Swing: "Sleaze" Dancing and Community Norms at River Falls Lodge
It's 6:15 on a Saturday evening in late spring. You've been driving less than an hour along U.S. Highway 276 from Greenville, South Carolina, past Traveler's Rest and Marietta, looking for an F Mart store and signs for Jones Gap State Park and River Falls Road. When you come to the junction, you turn right and follow the road four miles or so. Just after you pass the fire station and Gap Creek Road, you turn right on River Falls Lodge Road and go…
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A Study of Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
About That Swing: "Sleaze" Dancing and Community Norms at River Falls Lodge
It's 6:15 on a Saturday evening in late spring. You've been driving less than an hour along U.S. Highway 276 from Greenville, South Carolina, past Traveler's Rest and Marietta, looking for an F Mart store and signs for Jones Gap State Park and River Falls Road. When you come to the junction, you turn right and follow the road four miles or so. Just after you pass the fire station and Gap Creek Road, you turn right on River Falls Lodge Road and go…
Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen
Perspectives on the Tales and Other North American Marchen. Edited by Carl Lindahl. (Bloomington: Folklore Institute, 2002. Pp. vii + 179, foreword, photographs, notes, bibliography. $17.95 paper) Sixty years after Richard Chase cast his spell in folklore circles and the general public with The Tales, the continues to beguile us: if, in fact, there is such an identifiable as (which in turn raises the question of whether and subgenre are still use…
An Instinct for Dragons
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre (review)
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre,Studia Fennica, Folkloristica, 10. By Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj. (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001. Pp. 186, bibliography, index.)
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing (review)
Diana Crane's study of fashion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, England, and America is a must-read for folklorists wishing to grapple with the dynamics of fashion and its effects on Euro-American culture. Her familiarity with clothing history is wonderfully demonstrated throughout, and she makes good use of four essential sources of data: her own case studies of Paris, London, and New York fashion industries; interviews with focus gr…
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Book Review| January 01 2004 Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, Diana Crane. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (463): 112–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137628 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre
Book Review| April 01 2004 Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre, Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 204–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico (review)
Reviewed by: Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico Paul Jordan-Smith Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico. By Deidre Sklar. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, + 230, illustrations, notes, references, index.) In 1986, Deidre Sklar moved from New York City to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to engage in research on her doctoral dissertation. In Dancing Wi…
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2005 Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico, Deidre Sklar. Paul Jordan-Smith Paul Jordan-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (470): 497–498. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137676 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Pe…
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