Theorizing folklore from the margins : critical and ethical approaches /

By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.

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Other Authors: Otero, Solimar (Editor), Martinez-Rivera, Mintzi Auanda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2021
Series:Activist encounters in folklore and ethnomusicology.
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Table of Contents:
  • White traditioning and bruja epistemologies: rebuilding the house of US American folklore studies / Rachel V. González-Martin
  • Un tumbe Ch'ixi: incorporating afro-descendant ideas into an Andean anticolonial methodology / Juan Eduardo Wolf
  • Disrupting the archive / Miriam Melton-Villanueva and Sheila Bock
  • Afrolatinx folklore and representation: interstices and antiauthenticity / Solimar Otero
  • Behaving like relatives: or, we don't sit around and talk politics with strangers / Rhonda R. Dass
  • Political protest, ideology, and social criticism in Wolof folk poetry / Cheikh Tidiane Lo
  • Sugar Cane Alley: teaching the concept of "group" from a critical folkloristics perspective / Katherine Borland
  • Movimiento armado / armed movement / Itzel Guadalupe Garcia
  • Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba / Mabel Cuesta
  • "¿Batata? ¡Batata!": examining Puerto Rican visual folk expression in times of adversity / Gloria M. Colom Braña
  • Forming strands and ties in the knotted Atlantic: methodologies of color and practice of beadwork in Lucumí religion / Martin A. Tsang
  • Of blithe spirits: narratives of rebellion, violence, and cosmic memory in Haitian Vodou / Alexander Fernández
  • "No one would believe us": an autoethnography of conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone / Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera
  • "La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": the inaugural Oaxacan philharmonic bands audition on a university campus / Xóchitl Chávez
  • Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities / Cory W. Thorne
  • Complexifying identity through disability: critical folkloristic perspectives on being a parent and experiencing illness and disability through my child / Phyllis M. May-Machunda