John D Dorst
Biographic Data
| ID | 81834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Dorst |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorst |
| SIGNATURE | DORST J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring “Outside” Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring "Outside" Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring) John D. Dorst John D. Dorst John Dorst is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 157–162. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524.0157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Per…
Folklore's Cybernetic Imaginary, or, Unpacking the Obvious
This essay attempts to unpack a core principle of folklore's "field-Imaginary." Characterized here as a cybernetic Ideal, folklorists take for granted that the folklore process entails a tension between mechanisms of randomizing variation and counter forces of stabilizing constraint, leading to some form of dynamic equilibrium. The argument is not that this foundational idea is wrong, but that the simple form in which we receive it from the field…
Skin Remembers: Animal Trophies as Material Memory
Of those things people tend to think of as 'internal' mental processes, memory is one of the hardest to separate from their material experience in the physical world. The materiality of memory is recognized in many fields. Using as heuristics some seminal concepts from Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, this article offers a case study of the complex materiality of a particular 'memory object.' The so-called Chadwick Ram is reputed to be the most…
Museums
In its modern application, the term “museum” has become the umbrella for a bewildering array of institutions. At a minimum, these institutions share the functions of preserving and putting on display cultural goods deemed by some social group to be especially valuable, noteworthy, representative, unique, or otherwise deserving of public attention. Beyond this basic commonality, it is difficult to generalize about cultural institutions that range …
Which Came First, the Chicken Device or the Textual Egg? Documentary Film and the Limits of the Hybrid Metaphor
Though hybridity is certainly a productive theoretical metaphor, there are limits to its usefulness. In our postmodern, "telectronic" culture, we are surrounded by examples of boundary confusion between text-generating devices and texts themselves. The organic metaphor of hybridity is of limited value in theorizing these conflations. This article considers examples of such collapse between text and "apparatus" in the documentary films of Errol Mo…
In Search of the Cultural Supplement
Kathleen Stewart. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 243 pp
Folklore, Modernity, and the Postmodern: A Review Essay
Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina
A Walk Through the Shooting Gallery
The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America . Simon J. Bronner
Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales
RereadingMules and Men: Toward the Death of the Ethnographer
Saxo Grammaticus & the Life of Hamlet
Neck-Riddle as a Dialogue off Genres: Applying Bakhtin's Genre Theory
Which Came First, the Chicken Device or the Textual Egg? Documentary Film and the Limits of the Hybrid Metaphor
Though hybridity is certainly a productive theoretical metaphor, there are limits to its usefulness. In our postmodern, "telectronic" culture, we are surrounded by examples of boundary confusion between text-generating devices and texts themselves. The organic metaphor of hybridity is of limited value in theorizing these conflations. This article considers examples of such collapse between text and "apparatus" in the documentary films of Errol Mo…
Neck-Riddle as a Dialogue off Genres: Applying Bakhtin's Genre Theory
Folklore's Cybernetic Imaginary, or, Unpacking the Obvious
This essay attempts to unpack a core principle of folklore's "field-Imaginary." Characterized here as a cybernetic Ideal, folklorists take for granted that the folklore process entails a tension between mechanisms of randomizing variation and counter forces of stabilizing constraint, leading to some form of dynamic equilibrium. The argument is not that this foundational idea is wrong, but that the simple form in which we receive it from the field…
RereadingMules and Men: Toward the Death of the Ethnographer
Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring “Outside” Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring "Outside" Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring) John D. Dorst John D. Dorst John Dorst is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 157–162. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524.0157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Per…
A Walk Through the Shooting Gallery
The Written Suburb: An American site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
Neck-Riddle as a Dialogue off Genres: Applying Bakhtin's Genre Theory
Saxo Grammaticus & the Life of Hamlet
RereadingMules and Men: Toward the Death of the Ethnographer
Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America . Simon J. Bronner
Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales
The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
The Written Suburb: An American site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina
A Walk Through the Shooting Gallery
Folklore, Modernity, and the Postmodern: A Review Essay
In Search of the Cultural Supplement
Kathleen Stewart. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 243 pp
Which Came First, the Chicken Device or the Textual Egg? Documentary Film and the Limits of the Hybrid Metaphor
Though hybridity is certainly a productive theoretical metaphor, there are limits to its usefulness. In our postmodern, "telectronic" culture, we are surrounded by examples of boundary confusion between text-generating devices and texts themselves. The organic metaphor of hybridity is of limited value in theorizing these conflations. This article considers examples of such collapse between text and "apparatus" in the documentary films of Errol Mo…
Museums
In its modern application, the term “museum” has become the umbrella for a bewildering array of institutions. At a minimum, these institutions share the functions of preserving and putting on display cultural goods deemed by some social group to be especially valuable, noteworthy, representative, unique, or otherwise deserving of public attention. Beyond this basic commonality, it is difficult to generalize about cultural institutions that range …
Skin Remembers: Animal Trophies as Material Memory
Of those things people tend to think of as 'internal' mental processes, memory is one of the hardest to separate from their material experience in the physical world. The materiality of memory is recognized in many fields. Using as heuristics some seminal concepts from Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, this article offers a case study of the complex materiality of a particular 'memory object.' The so-called Chadwick Ram is reputed to be the most…
Folklore's Cybernetic Imaginary, or, Unpacking the Obvious
This essay attempts to unpack a core principle of folklore's "field-Imaginary." Characterized here as a cybernetic Ideal, folklorists take for granted that the folklore process entails a tension between mechanisms of randomizing variation and counter forces of stabilizing constraint, leading to some form of dynamic equilibrium. The argument is not that this foundational idea is wrong, but that the simple form in which we receive it from the field…
Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring “Outside” Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring)
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aliens: The Perils of Ignoring "Outside" Theory (A Response to Elliott Oring) John D. Dorst John D. Dorst John Dorst is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (524): 157–162. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.524.0157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Per…
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