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Children's Folklore Review CHILDREN’S FOLKLO RE REVIEW VOLUME 38 2017 PUBLISHED BY THE CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE SECTION OF THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY VOLUME 38 2017 CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR 5 ARTICLES Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: AMY K. MILLIGAN 7 Upsherin, Alef-Bet, and the Childhood Navigation of Jewish Gender Identity Symbol Sets “There’s An App For That”®: ELIZABETH TUCKER 27 Ghost Hunting with Smartphones “Little Pitchers Have Big Ears”: WOLFGANG MIEDER 39 The Intricate World of Children and Proverbs Wrestling with Masculinity ANDREW DELFINO & 57 JAY MECHLING Growing Little Traditions: DAVID PUGLIA 79 Baltimore’s Little Miss Hon Contest Finding New Monsters in Old Places: CORY THOMAS HUTCHESON 93 A Review of the Works of Simon J. Bronner Through an Age-Intersectional Lens BOOK REVIEW Children’s Games in the New Media Age: ANNA BERESIN 99 Childlore, Media and the Playground (Burn and Richards) FILM REVIEW Let’s Get the Rhythm (Chagall) CORY THOMAS HUTCHESON 103 MINUTES FROM CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE SECTION: 2016 ANNUAL MEETING 107 NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 109 INFORMatION ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS 111 FROM THE EDITOR BRANT W. ELLSWORTH I am proud to present the thirty-eighth volume of Children’s Folklore Review, a special issue honoring the distinguished career of Simon J. Bronner, who, among many other accolades, is a prolific scholar of cultural history, psychological ethnology, material culture and folklife; a master educator and program builder; a tireless public heritage consultant; a past convener and long-time executive board member of the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society; and, to those who have contributed to this issue, a colleague, a mentor, and a friend. The essays found within this issue were penned by those who know Simon and his scholarship best: his colleagues and his students, past and present. Each essay is illustrative of the tremendous influence his scholarship continues to have in shaping the theoretical orientations and methodology within the study of children’s folklore. It is a great honor to pay tribute to his career, legacy, and, most importantly, to his character. It is this last part—character—that I wish to address in this introduction as the contributors do a splendid job illustrating the import of his “career” and “legacy.” I first met Simon—er, Dr. Bronner—about ten years ago when I was a newly enrolled graduate student at Penn State Harrisburg. He was the director of the graduate program and was leading a summer seminar in folklore. One night the class gathered at a nearby historic building to conduct hands-on field work. After the work had ended, Simon pulled me aside happy to announce he had found funding to award me a graduate assistantship that would cover my tuition and provide a meager monthly stipend. Simon did not know me well enough to know that I was newly married, my wife was expecting, and that I was prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuit of my dream of becoming a college professor. He did not know that this offer financially paved the way for me to pursue this dream. I was Simon’s student and, as I have learned over the past decade and my colleagues in this issue can attest, Simon frequently goes out of his way to find or create opportunities for his students that they may become successful in pursuit of their academic and professional goals. He arms his students with the knowledge and tools requisite for success and then ensures they have opportunities—as instructors, researchers, and writers—to apply them. On behalf of your students, past and present, I thank you for caring. This volume has been a tremendous undertaking, simplified by the authors’ outpouring of interest and willingness to meet impossible deadlines. Given a short window, the authors dropped their individual projects and enthusiastically accepted the opportunity to pay tribute to Simon. Some of the authors—Wolfgang Meider and Libby Tucker—even volunteered to subvent the costs of publication and shipping when concerns arose about the size and cost of the issue. Wolfgang and Libby: thank you for making this volume possible. After making your way through this issue, remember that back issues of Children’s Folklore Review are available through our digital repository, hosted by 5 FROM THE EDITOR Indiana University’s ScholarWorks. I invite you to go back and read through some of Simon’s publications over the years, including “The Shooter has Asperger’s”: Autism, Belief, and “Wild Child Narratives” (2014), “Fathers and Sons: Rethinking the Bar Mitzvah as an American Rite of Passage” (2009), and “Expressing and Creating Ourselves in Childhood: A Commentary” (1992). Finally, I would like to express my appreciation for Trevor Blank, who, under extremely challenging circumstances, needed to relinquish his editorial position with the journal this past year. During his two-year tenure as editor of the Children’s Folklore Review, Trevor tirelessly endeavored to promote scholarship in children’s folklore and propelled the journal forward into the digital age (rightfully so). He is a rising star in the field, though I am not sure how much longer we can or should use that qualifying adjective. I am confident the Children’s Folklore Review will continue to benefit from his scholarship, vision, and leadership for years to come. I would also like to express my immense gratitude to Elizabeth (Libby) Tucker, who has been so incredibly kind and helpful in providing advice, insights, and encouragement as I transitioned into my new role as editor of the journal. Her correspondences exude positivity and never fail to make me smile. Thanks, too, are due to Kathy Buchta, Sheridan Press, Priscilla Ord, the CFR editorial board, peer reviewers, and contributors. 6 HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: UPSHERIN, ALEF-BET, AND THE CHILDHOOD NAVIGATION OF JEWISH GENDER IDENTITY SYMBOL SETS AMY K. MILLIGAN, PHD But these hairs, all and singular, radiate into four hundred and ten worlds. (Zohar vii:67) In my first semester of my doctoral program, Dr. Simon J. Bronner, my academic idol, agreed to do an independent study course with me on hair. Acutely aware that the great folklorist’s time was valuable, I selected Charles Berg’s The Unconscious Significance of Hair (1951) as our first reading. This seemed fitting, as it was one of the earliest comprehensive hair studies texts. At our first meeting, I sat across from Simon in a nervous sweat. What I hadn’t realized was that the book was largely about the phallic motivations of men who shave their heads. Simon ran his hand over his shaved head, a twinkle in his eye, and said, “Well, where do you want to start?” Years later, Simon remains my most trusted and cherished mentor, and I am lucky to also count him as a friend. As I have established myself as a bodylorist working in hairlore, Simon has been an unwavering voice of support and encouragement, reminding me time and again that if the research isn’t there that I need to write it. As I worked on this essay for this journal commemorating his retirement from teaching—because we all know that it does not mark his retirement from writing—I emailed Simon to ask if, in his encyclopedic memory, he could recall any studies mentioning upsherin (a ritual in which an Orthodox Jewish boy’s hair is cut for the first time at the age of three) that I might be overlooking, as my research was turning up scant results. His response? He encouraged me to get writing. Truly, a finer mentor has never been. Simon, I continue to learn from and be inspired by you. Thank you for believing in me and my crazy hair-brained ideas (and for sharing a mutual love of word play); I can only hope to make you proud and to build my students up as you taught me through your example. In this essay, I introduce the theoretical framework of hairlore, discussing its challenges when applied to the hair of infants and very young children. I contextualize the ritual of upsherin, reviewing its history, describing contemporary applications, and discussing variations of the practice. Finally, I offer an analysis of upsherin, considering its role in the shifting relationship between mother and son, as well as in the maintenance of a gendered Orthodox symbol set, and discuss the possibility of egalitarian parallels for young girls. I ultimately argue that upsherin is ripe for adaptation by liberal Jewish communities in its celebration of Jewish core values. 7 HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW MILLIGAN Theoretical Basis for Childhood Hair Studies Bodylorists and hairlorists tend to focus their attention on the adult body (Crane 2000; DeMello 2000; Farrell 2011; Grosz 1994; Hagen and Giuntini 2007; Luciano 2002; Pitts 2003; Thompson 2015; Young 1993). In many ways, this makes sense: adults are able to make choices about their self-presentation and engage autonomously with their bodies in ways in which children are unable. Attention is also given to teens and young adults, who interact with their bodies as they cultivate their identities, often in contrast to parental wishes, but this consideration tends to have a health and medical scope (Montgomery and Parks 2001; Carroll, Riffenburgh, Roberts, and Myhre 2002; Benjamins, Risser, Cromwell, Feldmann, Bortot, Eissa, and Nguyen 2006; Silver, Silver, Siennick, and Farkas 2011). Other body studies of the pubescent and pre-pubescent body focus on general body image satisfaction (Ballentine and Ogle 2005; Tiggemann and Slater 2014; Malachowski and Myers 2013; Coffey, Budgeon, and Cahill 2016). However, small children and babies also warrant the attention of bodylorists. While their engagement with their bodies is different than that of adults, indeed, it is this very difference that merits consideration.
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