Amy Shuman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3741925 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amy Shuman |
| PRENOMES | Amy |
| SOBRENOME | Shuman |
| ASSINATURA | SHUMAN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Marking Time in an Artisan Community
This account of the marble carving artisans of Pietrasanta, Italy, explores familiar assumptions about artisan time through an exploration of multiple, intersecting temporalities including geologic, historical, political, cultural, and technological time. Artisan practices are often relegated to the past, are understood to coexist more or less uncomfortably with the present, and are not even imagined as existing in the future. Like all chronotope…
Salons 3
The "Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities" salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pand…
Salons 1
Public folklore practice increasingly emphasizes enabling communities to shape and determine the direction of a project from inception through implementation. The "Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, explored how folklorists are sharing and yielding authority with community members, with an overarching objective of d…
Dan Ben-Amos (1934-2023)
Dan Ben-Amos of blessed memory, folklorist, teacher, and dear friend, passed away on March 26, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Batsheva Ben-Amos, his children, and grandchildren. He is remembered as a daring and rigorous scholar, a generous teacher and mentor, a brilliant storyteller, an engaged colleague, and a twinkle-eyed trickster known for his wry humor.As we write this memorial testimony, we hear Dan's voice engaging us in dialogue and re…
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere
Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the implication of heritage in local economies, politics, and environmental justice. This special issue encompasses multiple domains of public folklore and heritage discourse, including museums, archives, and cu…
Salons 2
The "Social Justice" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore's rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked to underlying conditions of social inequality. Exploring how the skill sets and resources of folklorists can intersect with heritage frameworks to ameliorate forms of social injustice, participants…
Folklore, Disability, and Plain Language
This is an essay about consent and the importance of using plain language. Consent means someone gives someone else permission to do something. When we do research, we ask for consent from the people we study. We explain what we are trying to understand in our research, and we ask people to agree to participate. Everyone has the right to decide whether or not to give consent. When we ask for consent, we need to explain things in ways that people …
Salons 5
The "Anticipatory Heritage" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. Wh…
Salons 4
The "Sustainabilities" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, drew together folklorists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, who were interested in frameworks for the study and stewardship of culture at the nexus of economy, ecology, nature, and the multi-species ethnographic and ontological turn. Conversations highlighted the continuing friction between public environmental policies grounded in Western instrument…
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process
The narratives that political asylum applicants tell in immigration hearings are often fragmentary, in part because people fleeing violence and discrimination are not always knowledgeable about the details of their persecution. We discuss the particular problem of narrating unanticipated events, experiences that have no precedent in people’s ordinary lives before violence. Building on earlier research on narrative coherence and trauma narrative, …
Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives
"Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women's speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "reciprocal ethnography," while growing a detailed corpus o…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Political Asylum Deceptions
The unspeakable, the unnarratable, and the repudiation of epiphany in 'Recitatif
The authors bring together feminist-narratological methodologies from literary studies and linguistic anthropology in a reading of Toni Morrison’s short story, ‘Recitatif’. Both authors self-identify as ‘feminist narratologists’, but their two fields seldom interact. They ask what insights their combined approaches bring to interpreting this radically ambiguous fictional text that distinguishes two characters as being ‘black’ and ‘white’ without …
The Afterlife of Stories
Proverbs can be considered the debris of prior talk, reused in different media and contexts, as part of or disaggregated from narratives. They are the speech of others, inserted into a new context where they can support, contradict, or shift the speaker’s stance in relation to the people and objects under discussion. Calling attention to the gap between present and prior speaker, they negotiate the terrain between cliché and authoritative discour…
Writing American Cultures
Book Review| July 01 2017 Writing American Cultures: Studies of Identity, Community, and Place Writing American Cultures: Studies of Identity, Community, and Place. Ed. Sam Schrager. (Olympia, WA: Evergreen State College Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 249, introduction, bibliographies, 9 art reproductions, 9 black-and-white photographs.). Amy Shuman Amy Shuman The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
Discursive entanglements, diffractive readings
Building on Barad’s (2007) discursive entanglements, we explore discussions about weight-loss surgery among Girth & Mirthers, a nationwide social club of big gay men ostracized from the larger gay community because of their size. They promote size acceptance, but are suspicious of surgeons promising social normality through gastric bypass. In interviews, they revealed positions regarding weight-loss surgery such as respect for others’ personal ch…
Narrative and the Transmission of Traditions
Getting Out
As part of an emerging field of films documenting the obstacles faced by sexual minorities fleeing persecution and seeking political asylum, the film Getting Out documents both the persecution of sexual minorities in Uganda and the obstacles individuals face in their attempts to get political asylum in South Africa. Using the film as a springboard, we assess the larger issues of recognition, visibility, hypervisibility, and performativity in enco…
Gender and cultural silences in the political asylum process
Individuals claiming persecution on the basis of gender or as sexual minorities have faced many obstacles in the political asylum process including additional burdens of proof of identity and of persecution. Based on our own work with political asylum applicants, on legal reports, and on reports by groups providing assistance to asylum seekers, we review the law and the obstacles and consider the conditions underlying and supporting suspicion of …
Brief Treatment of Co-Occurring Post-Traumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms by Use of Accelerated Resolution Therapy®
This uncontrolled prospective cohort study evaluated the use of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) for treatment of comorbid symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder. Twenty-eight adult subjects, mean age of 41 years (79% female, 36% Hispanic), received a mean of 3.7 ± 1.1 ART treatment sessions (range 1-5). ART is a new exposure-based psychotherapy that makes use of eye movements. Subjects completed a ran…
Normalizing Desire
Girth & Mirth (G&M) is a social group for big gay men who face exclusion and discrimination from both mainstream and gay communities. Based on extensive ethnographic research and interview data, we consider a variety of the group's activities, including gatherings at coffeehouses, participation in a gay pride parade, and a national carnivalesque weekend retreat. The group engages in performances that are complicit with both heteronormative gender…
Positioning the interviewer
The structure and function of a sociolinguistic interview sets up a context that affords informants the opportunity to achieve their own goals. We examine how an informant manipulates the reception format of the speech event, using embedded orientation to characterize information as alternately given or new, and the interviewer consequently as an insider or outsider. Whereas previous analyses have examined how embedded orientation highlights or s…
On the Verge
Using a phenomenological approach to questions about empathy and stigma, this essay explores stories told by parents of children with disabilities. In a close reading of "Welcome to Holland," an allegorical account of discovering that one's child has Down syndrome, I explore the concepts of narrative alignment (and positionality) and the politics of recognition in narratives about disability. In addition, this autoethnographic account describes m…
Contradictory Discourses of Protection and Control in Transnational Asylum Law
For immigration authorities, the goal of asylum hearings is to differentiate between economic migrants and legitimate political asylum seekers. However, in the stories asylum seekers tell, these categories often blur. Nevertheless, the asylum process uses this differentiation to conceal inequities in the system, and to justify denials. This article examines political asylum as a transnational and culturally local process and argues that contradic…
Storytelling Rights
Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions
Representing Trauma
The trauma narratives told by refugees in their appeal for asylum status in the United States are culturally constructed, based not only on local cultural discourses for talking about grief, tragedy, struggle, and displacement, but also on the legal and bureaucratic cultures of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (B.C.I.S.). On the basis of interviews with asylum seekers and with immigration lawyers and B.C.I.S. officials, we discu…
Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative
My review of the past thirty years of narrative scholarship returns to the work of Harvey Sacks and Erving Goffman, situated in Dell Hymes’ ethnography of communication, to examine where their interactive model for understanding narrative has taken us. Although in some disciplines, narrative research is used as empirical evidence of how people interpret their experiences, Sacks’ work points more to the ways that personal narrative destabilizes th…
The Rhetoric of Portions
Dismantling Local Culture
L'A. analyse l'apport essentiel du concept de culture locale dans les etudes folkloriques en tant que culture locale marquee s'opposant a une culture non-marquee. Il propose trois discussions sur les perspectives locale et globale de la culture : comment la culture locale est-elle devenue le centre des etudes folkloriques ? Comment la culture locale (et le relativisme culturel) a-t-elle ete concue comme une correction de l'ethnocentrisme ? Discus…
Text, Play, and Story
On the Verge
Using a phenomenological approach to questions about empathy and stigma, this essay explores stories told by parents of children with disabilities. In a close reading of "Welcome to Holland," an allegorical account of discovering that one's child has Down syndrome, I explore the concepts of narrative alignment (and positionality) and the politics of recognition in narratives about disability. In addition, this autoethnographic account describes m…
Positioning the interviewer
The structure and function of a sociolinguistic interview sets up a context that affords informants the opportunity to achieve their own goals. We examine how an informant manipulates the reception format of the speech event, using embedded orientation to characterize information as alternately given or new, and the interviewer consequently as an insider or outsider. Whereas previous analyses have examined how embedded orientation highlights or s…
Contradictory Discourses of Protection and Control in Transnational Asylum Law
For immigration authorities, the goal of asylum hearings is to differentiate between economic migrants and legitimate political asylum seekers. However, in the stories asylum seekers tell, these categories often blur. Nevertheless, the asylum process uses this differentiation to conceal inequities in the system, and to justify denials. This article examines political asylum as a transnational and culturally local process and argues that contradic…
Food Gifts
Food exchanges often produce excesses of meaning, and those excesses can be spaces for maintaining or renegotiating social relationships. The Jewish festival of Purim enacts symbolic inversions of everyday cultural practices that produce excesses of food and food exchanges that symbolically threaten religious, social, and interpersonal social categories. Building on theories of gift exchange, from Marcel Mauss to Annette Weiner, I explore the lim…
Normalizing Desire
Girth & Mirth (G&M) is a social group for big gay men who face exclusion and discrimination from both mainstream and gay communities. Based on extensive ethnographic research and interview data, we consider a variety of the group's activities, including gatherings at coffeehouses, participation in a gay pride parade, and a national carnivalesque weekend retreat. The group engages in performances that are complicit with both heteronormative gender…
Salons 1
Public folklore practice increasingly emphasizes enabling communities to shape and determine the direction of a project from inception through implementation. The "Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, explored how folklorists are sharing and yielding authority with community members, with an overarching objective of d…
Dan Ben-Amos (1934-2023)
Dan Ben-Amos of blessed memory, folklorist, teacher, and dear friend, passed away on March 26, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Batsheva Ben-Amos, his children, and grandchildren. He is remembered as a daring and rigorous scholar, a generous teacher and mentor, a brilliant storyteller, an engaged colleague, and a twinkle-eyed trickster known for his wry humor.As we write this memorial testimony, we hear Dan's voice engaging us in dialogue and re…
Folklore, Disability, and Plain Language
This is an essay about consent and the importance of using plain language. Consent means someone gives someone else permission to do something. When we do research, we ask for consent from the people we study. We explain what we are trying to understand in our research, and we ask people to agree to participate. Everyone has the right to decide whether or not to give consent. When we ask for consent, we need to explain things in ways that people …
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process
The narratives that political asylum applicants tell in immigration hearings are often fragmentary, in part because people fleeing violence and discrimination are not always knowledgeable about the details of their persecution. We discuss the particular problem of narrating unanticipated events, experiences that have no precedent in people’s ordinary lives before violence. Building on earlier research on narrative coherence and trauma narrative, …
Reticence and Recuperation
Research Article| July 01 2007 Reticence and Recuperation: Addressing Discursive Responsibility in Feminist Ethnicity Research Amy Shuman Amy Shuman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 81–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543201 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Shuman; Reticence and Recuperation: Addressing Dis…
He-Said-She-Said
Salons 3
The "Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities" salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pand…
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere
Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the implication of heritage in local economies, politics, and environmental justice. This special issue encompasses multiple domains of public folklore and heritage discourse, including museums, archives, and cu…
Salons 2
The "Social Justice" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore's rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked to underlying conditions of social inequality. Exploring how the skill sets and resources of folklorists can intersect with heritage frameworks to ameliorate forms of social injustice, participants…
Salons 5
The "Anticipatory Heritage" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. Wh…
Salons 4
The "Sustainabilities" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, drew together folklorists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, who were interested in frameworks for the study and stewardship of culture at the nexus of economy, ecology, nature, and the multi-species ethnographic and ontological turn. Conversations highlighted the continuing friction between public environmental policies grounded in Western instrument…
The Effects of Preparing Parents for Child Psychotherapy on Accuracy of Expectations and Treatment Attendance
The Rhetoric of Portions
Collaborative literacy in an urban multiethnic neighborhood
Ways with Words
Playful Uses of Literacy Among Urban Adolescents
One of the least studied domains of literacy is its artistic and playful use in everyday life. In this folkloric domain, oral and written forms co-exist as part of a larger system of communication. Although literacy studies have been decidedly inter-disciplinary, combining cross-cultural cognitive psychology, education, history, classic literature, and ethnography, only the ethnography of communication approach enlarges the scope from a study of …
Storytelling Rights
Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions
Text, Play, and Story
Everyday Life
He-Said-She-Said
Dismantling Local Culture
L'A. analyse l'apport essentiel du concept de culture locale dans les etudes folkloriques en tant que culture locale marquee s'opposant a une culture non-marquee. Il propose trois discussions sur les perspectives locale et globale de la culture : comment la culture locale est-elle devenue le centre des etudes folkloriques ? Comment la culture locale (et le relativisme culturel) a-t-elle ete concue comme une correction de l'ethnocentrisme ? Discus…
Food Gifts
Food exchanges often produce excesses of meaning, and those excesses can be spaces for maintaining or renegotiating social relationships. The Jewish festival of Purim enacts symbolic inversions of everyday cultural practices that produce excesses of food and food exchanges that symbolically threaten religious, social, and interpersonal social categories. Building on theories of gift exchange, from Marcel Mauss to Annette Weiner, I explore the lim…
The Effects of Preparing Parents for Child Psychotherapy on Accuracy of Expectations and Treatment Attendance
Representing Trauma
The trauma narratives told by refugees in their appeal for asylum status in the United States are culturally constructed, based not only on local cultural discourses for talking about grief, tragedy, struggle, and displacement, but also on the legal and bureaucratic cultures of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (B.C.I.S.). On the basis of interviews with asylum seekers and with immigration lawyers and B.C.I.S. officials, we discu…
Other People's Stories
In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling. Drawing on innovative research and contemporary theory, she describes what happens when one person's story becomes another person's source of inspiration, or when entitlement and empathy collide." "The resulting analyses in Other People's Stories are diverse, integrating narrative studies…
Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative
My review of the past thirty years of narrative scholarship returns to the work of Harvey Sacks and Erving Goffman, situated in Dell Hymes’ ethnography of communication, to examine where their interactive model for understanding narrative has taken us. Although in some disciplines, narrative research is used as empirical evidence of how people interpret their experiences, Sacks’ work points more to the ways that personal narrative destabilizes th…
Rejecting Refugees
Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as persecution? How do applicants translate their stories of suffering and trauma into a narrative acceptable to the immigration officials? How can asylum officials weed out the fake from the genuine without resorting to ina…
Producing Epistemologies of Ignorance in the Political Asylum Application Process 1
The granting of political asylum is implicated in other often competing agendas and discourses, including national security, the obligation to provide safe haven, the histories of past immigrants and asylum seekers, and the criminalization of people who cross borders illegally, for whatever motive. Political asylum serves two sometimes contradictory ends: protection of the state and refuge for the applicant. This contradiction is at the root of t…
Reticence and Recuperation
Research Article| July 01 2007 Reticence and Recuperation: Addressing Discursive Responsibility in Feminist Ethnicity Research Amy Shuman Amy Shuman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 81–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543201 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Shuman; Reticence and Recuperation: Addressing Dis…
Social Smoking
Social smokers manage the conflicting aspects of their liminal identities by negotiating complex roles of performance and exchange. Using a combination of methods, including both participant observation of cultural performances and informal interviews, to elicit lay theories and accounts of self-conscious practices, this project examines social actors, self-defined as nonsmokers (or reformed smokers), who engage in recreational tobacco use. Throu…
Contradictory Discourses of Protection and Control in Transnational Asylum Law
For immigration authorities, the goal of asylum hearings is to differentiate between economic migrants and legitimate political asylum seekers. However, in the stories asylum seekers tell, these categories often blur. Nevertheless, the asylum process uses this differentiation to conceal inequities in the system, and to justify denials. This article examines political asylum as a transnational and culturally local process and argues that contradic…
Positioning the interviewer
The structure and function of a sociolinguistic interview sets up a context that affords informants the opportunity to achieve their own goals. We examine how an informant manipulates the reception format of the speech event, using embedded orientation to characterize information as alternately given or new, and the interviewer consequently as an insider or outsider. Whereas previous analyses have examined how embedded orientation highlights or s…
On the Verge
Using a phenomenological approach to questions about empathy and stigma, this essay explores stories told by parents of children with disabilities. In a close reading of "Welcome to Holland," an allegorical account of discovering that one's child has Down syndrome, I explore the concepts of narrative alignment (and positionality) and the politics of recognition in narratives about disability. In addition, this autoethnographic account describes m…
Brief Treatment of Co-Occurring Post-Traumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms by Use of Accelerated Resolution Therapy®
This uncontrolled prospective cohort study evaluated the use of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) for treatment of comorbid symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder. Twenty-eight adult subjects, mean age of 41 years (79% female, 36% Hispanic), received a mean of 3.7 ± 1.1 ART treatment sessions (range 1-5). ART is a new exposure-based psychotherapy that makes use of eye movements. Subjects completed a ran…
Normalizing Desire
Girth & Mirth (G&M) is a social group for big gay men who face exclusion and discrimination from both mainstream and gay communities. Based on extensive ethnographic research and interview data, we consider a variety of the group's activities, including gatherings at coffeehouses, participation in a gay pride parade, and a national carnivalesque weekend retreat. The group engages in performances that are complicit with both heteronormative gender…
Getting Out
As part of an emerging field of films documenting the obstacles faced by sexual minorities fleeing persecution and seeking political asylum, the film Getting Out documents both the persecution of sexual minorities in Uganda and the obstacles individuals face in their attempts to get political asylum in South Africa. Using the film as a springboard, we assess the larger issues of recognition, visibility, hypervisibility, and performativity in enco…
Gender and cultural silences in the political asylum process
Individuals claiming persecution on the basis of gender or as sexual minorities have faced many obstacles in the political asylum process including additional burdens of proof of identity and of persecution. Based on our own work with political asylum applicants, on legal reports, and on reports by groups providing assistance to asylum seekers, we review the law and the obstacles and consider the conditions underlying and supporting suspicion of …
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