Folklore's Nature and the Sun's Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2806479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dell Hymes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 350 |
| Pages | 345 |
| Publication date | 1975-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/538651 |
| OpenAlex | W2318809372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 92 |
AN OUTGOING PRESIDENT SHOULD TAKE NOTE of the state of the discipline; a hometown boy should take note of his own state. I speak to you [tonight) in both roles. That we meet in Portland is for me a lucky, significant coincidence, for I was born, raised, and introduced to folklore in Portland, and most of my work in folklore is devoted to languages and cultures of the Oregon country.1 I shall try to address both contexts-folklore, Oregon-in a way that is meaningful to both. My first concern is a conception of the discipline; my second is a text. The interpretation of each has relevance to the future of the other, in Oregon, and in general
Rendering the Popular as "Tradition"
AFS Now and Tomorrow
Toward an Assessment of Verbal Art as Performance
Spirited Choreographies
Folklore
Snap Shots
Voices of Modernity
Return to the Future
Stories Which I Know to Be True”
Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1
Mütevazı Teori
Geleneği̇ Açiklamak
Utendajipepe wa Fasihi Simulizi
Folklore and Sociolinguistics
Note on Documents
Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
Caminoization at Sea
Swedish Folklife Research in the 1980s
Language, Memory, and Selective Performance
Politics on the Pavement
I'm a Folklorist and You're Not
Mai '68 and the Traditionalization of French Shadow Theater
Marius Barbeau et l’ethnologie des Amérindiens
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
To Explain Tradition
Dynamics of ganji
Jezik govora, jezik pesmi
The “Impure” Poetry of Dell Hymes
Traditionalisation for Revitalisation
Young Children as Wayfarers
The Oral Literature Researcher as a Foreign Expert
Introduction
Narratiiv kui ravi
Aesthetic Is the Opposite of Anaesthetic
Changing Dresses
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
What('s) Theory
The Traditionalization of Women's Dancing, Hegemony, and Politics in Malawi
Moving beyond “the Media”
Humble Theory
Aesthetic Ecologies
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Doing Good Physics
Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions
America's Antitheoretical Folkloristics
Mexican Retablos
Materializing the Everyday
A new look at performance
Memory-Theater As Cultural Generativity
Tradition
A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’
Variable data and linguistic convergence
The Paradox of Traditionalization
"Ch'angguk Opera and the Category of the "Traditionesque
Narrative and folklore as methodologies for studying emotions, embodiment, and water during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill in West Virginia
Varieties of Authenticity in Contemporary Jewish Identity
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind
Elderly women in a Hungarian village
Negotiating Tradition
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes
Among the Palms1
Tradition through Modernity
Register and artefact
The Foundation of All Future Researches
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization
Stirring Up Skyr
Neighborliness and Decency, Witchcraft and Famine
Look at Us Now
Vernacular Turns
Values and Value in Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2007)
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes
Handspinning Tradition in the United States
"Urgencies" in the Field
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair
Tradition, Genuine or Spurious
Cultural Sustainability
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia
States of the Folklore Profession in China and the United States
What We Know and What We Do
After the Revolution
Indigenous Voices on the Web
Folklore and Cultural Heritage
Salvaging the Salvage Anthropologists
Doing Culture Work
Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power
"The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the "Invention of Tradition
Voices around the Text
Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
Erecting the submerged tree trunk
| Unique citing works | 92 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2025 (49) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |