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The American Folklore Society THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY PROGRAM FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 11-14, 1971 HOTEL WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA AVE. AT 15TH STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 7:30-9:00 A.M. REGISTRATION (Lobby) 9:00-10:30 A.M. AMERICAN ETHNIC ENCLAVES APPLIED FOLKLORE MYTH AND LEGEND (Washington Room) (Sky Room) (Capital Room) Chairman: JOHN O. WEST, University Chairman: PATRICK B. MULLEN, Ohio Chairman: EDWARD D. IVES, of Texas at El Paso State University University of Maine 1. Esoteric-Exoteric Folklore of 1. Applied Folklore, A Comparative 1. The Structural Analysis of Bradford County Pooles. BONITA View. BENJAMIN A. BOTIaN, Genesis as Myth: A Response FREEMAN EDE, University of Croton-on-Hudson, New York to Edmund Leach. JOSEPH ARPAD, Pennsylvania University of California, 2. Folklore and Black Dialect. Los Angeles 2. The Origin of the "Jackson DARNELL WILLIAMS, Ohio State Whites": Legend and History University 2. The Importance of Salt in the among the Racially Mixed Cosmology of the Rama Indians People of the Ramapo Mountains. 3. Folklore and Minority Group of Eastern Nicaragua. FRANKLIN DAVID STEVEN COHEN, Rutgers Education. PATRICK B. MULLEN, o. LOVELAND, Duke University University Ohio State University ,­ 3. Science Fiction as Myth. DELL R. 3. Urban Black Folk Culture in SKEELS, University of Washington Late Nineteenth Century Cincin­ nati. ROBERT C. TOLL, Univer­ 4. The Gypsy Lane Explosion. MARIE sity of California, Berkeley A. CAMPBELL, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania 4. Recent Italian Folktales from the Niagara Falls Area. CATHERINE AINSWORTH, Niagara County Community College 10:30-11:00 A.M. COFFEE BREAK THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 (cont.) 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. NORTH AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC AFRICAN FOLKLORE THE STUDY OF FOLKLORE (Washington Room) (Sky Room) (Capital Room) Chairman: NEIL V. ROSENBERG, Memo­ Chairman: BERNTH LINDFORS, Uni­ Chairman: WILLIAM HUGH JANSEN, rial University of Newfoundland versity of Texas at Austin University of Kentucky 1. Black Fife and Drum Music in 1. The Relation between Oral and 1. Folk Music and Social Conscience: Mississippi. DAVID EVANS, Cali­ Written Literatures in Africa. The Musical Odyssey of Charles fornia State College, Fullerton KOFI AWOONOR, State University Seeger, 1912-1942. RICHARD REUSS, of New York at Stonybrook Wayne State University 2. C. A. Tindley and the Black Gos­ pel Tradition. WAYNE D. SHIRLEY, 2. Structuralism in Folklore and 2. The Study of Romanian Folklore. Library of Congress Mythology: An Approach to the JAN BRUNVAND, University of Utah . Study of African Vernacular 3. The Fiddling Traditions of Cape and Oral Literatures. SUNDAY 3. The Influence of British Folklore Breton and Texas: A study in ANOZIE, University of Texas Theories on the Editorial Policies Parallels and Contrasts. EARL V. at Austin of JAF 1888-1914. ESTHER K. BIRD­ SPIELMAN, University of Hawaii SAL~University of Maryland 3. The Tale Repertory of Southern 4. Fiddles and Friendship: The Ghana. DANIEL J. CROWLEY, Uni­ 4. Some Current Possibilities for Structuring of Traditional Dance versity of California, Davis Folklore Research in England. Performance in Northern New VEN~rIA NEWALL, The Folk-Lore York. ROBERT D. BETHKE, Univer­ 4. East African Oral Narrative: Society, London, England sity of Pennsylvania Progress Report of a Survey. LEE HARING, Brooklyn College 5. The Necessity of Scepticism. 5. The Problem of Validity in Com­ KATHARINE M. BRIGGS, Oxford, paring Ballad Tunes. JEROME 5. South African Bantu Folktales. England WENKER, Indiana University HAROLD SCHEUB, University of Wisconsin, Madison THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 (cont.) 2:30-4:00 P.M. ETHICS, SECURITY, AND FOLKLORE AND THE EPIC FOODWAYS COPYRIGHT: PEOPLE, (Sky Room) (Capital Room) ARCHIVES, AND THE LAW (Washington Room) Chairman: BRUCE A. ROSENBERG, Chairman: JAY A. ANDERSON, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University State University Chairman: ELLEN J. STEKERT, Wayne State University 1. Roland and Cu~ter. BRUCE A. 1. Food of Slaves as Reflected in the ROSENBERG, Penns~lvania State WPA Slave Narrative Collection. CHARLES Panel: University W. JOYNER, St. Andrews Presbyterian BRUCE R. BUCKLEY, Coopers­ College town Graduate Programs, 2. Irish Heroic Sagas. SAMUEL P. State University College BAYARD, Pennsylvania State 2. Holiday Breads and Cookies of Southern at Oneonta, Cooperstown, University Germany and Switzerland. AGNES HOSTETTLER, New York Queens College EDWARD D. IVES, University 3. Serbocroatian Heroic Songs. ~ of Maine ALBERT B. LORD, Harvard Univer-3. Meatless Dishes among the Catholic German- ALAN JABBOUR, Library of sity Russians of Ellis and Rush Counties, Congress Kansas. MARJORIE SACKETT, Fort Hays GEORGE LIST, Indiana 4. Arthurian Romances. FRANCIS Kansas State College University LEE UTLEY, Ohio State Univer­ PHILIP MASON, Wayne State sity 4. The Organic Food Movement. DAVID HUFFORD, University Memorial University of Newfoundland D. K. WILGUS, University of California, Los 5. Food and Social Status in Tanzania. Angeles PETER SEITEL, Princeton University 4:30-6:00 P.M. AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATIONS (T~1n~h';Y'I""'+"""'" 'Q""",....."..,' FESTIVALS FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE PEOPLES OF EUROPE, ASIA, AND NORTHERN (Washington Room) (Sky Room) AFRICA (Capital Room) Chairman: HERBERT HALPERT, Mem­ Chairman: GERALDINE JOHNSON, orial University of Newfound­ University of Maryland Chairman: FELIX J. OINAS, Indiana land University 1. From Sumer to Babylon: The Con­ 1. Carnival in the Caribbean. struction of the Gilgamesh Epic. 1. The Role of the Devil in Supersti­ ROGER ABRAHAMS, University CHARLES GORDON ZUG III, Univer­ tion, Vice, and Social Injustice in of Texas at Austin sity of North Carolina at Chapel Reformation Germany. RIA STAMBAUGH, Hill University of North Carolina at 2. Afro-American Festivals. Chapel Hill MORTON MARKS, City Univer­ 2. Folklore and the Folk in Mrs. sity of New York, City Stowe's Fiction. MICHAEL OWEN 2. The Historical Reality and the College, and JOHN SZWED, JONES, University of California, Russian Supernaturals. FELIX J. University of Pennsylvania Los Angeles OINAS, Indiana University 3. Peruvian Festivals. ROBERT 3. William Dean Howells, Empirical 3. Pain and Suffering in Arabic Folk­ J. SMITH, University of Folklorist. GEORGE KUMMER, Case lore. SAMI A. HANNA, University of Kansas Western Reserve University Utah 4. Belsnickles in Nova Scotia. 4. The Function of Legend, Belief, 4. Stereotypes in Urban Egyptian Humor. RICHARD BAUMAN, University and Custom in Precious Bane. NADIA I. ATIF, University of Cali~· of Texas at Austin W. K. r-lcNEIL, Indiana Univer­ fornia, Berkeley sity 5. The Uniqueness of the Ballads of 5. Folklore Motifs in Contemporary the Outlaw Lore of Saurashtra, Indian Poetry. PRISCILLA SHAMES, India. V. GOPALAN, Indiana State California State College, Fuller­ University ton 10:30-11:00 A.M. COFFEE BREAK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 (cont.) 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. ~IGRANT FOLKLORE EPISTOMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL AMERICAN INDIAN FOLKLORE (Washington Room) PRINCIPLES IN FOLKLORE STUDIES (Capital Room) (Sky Room) Chairman: LINDA D~GH, Indiana Chairman: DAN BEN-AMOS, University of Chairman: J. BARRE TOELKEN, University Pennsylvania University of Oregon Panel: 1. The Role of Hypotheses in Folkloristics. 1. Hopi Adaptation of Western LARRY DANIELSON, University KENNETH L. KETNER, Texas Tech University Technology to Traditional of Illinois, Chicago Circle Mythology. CHERYL THURBER RICHARD M. DORSON, Indiana ~ . Models of Inquiry in Folkloristics. EVANS, University of University ROBERT A. GEORGES, University of Cali­ California, Riverside BARBARA KIRSCHENBLATT­ fornia, Los Angeles GIMBLETT, University of 2. The Shaker Church and the Texas at Austin -~. The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore. Modern Indian Community. ROBERT B. KLYMASZ, National ALAN DUNDES, University bf California, D. ANITA BROWN, University Museum of Man, Ottawa, Berkeley of Washington Canada PHILIP V. R. TILNEY, Indiana 4. Epistomological Implications of Mali­ 3. Calumet Ceremonialism and University nowsky's Functional Analysis of Narra­ the Symbolism of the Vision SHOU-HUA YEARWOOD, Indiana tives. ELLI K~NG~S MARANDA, University Quest. JOHN WITTHOFT, Uni~ University of British Columbia versity of Pennsylvania FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 (cont.) 2:30-4:00 P.M. AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKLORE FOLK NARRATIVE PEOPLES OF EASTERN ASIA AND (Washington Room) (Sky Room) THEIR AMERICAN DESCENDANTS (Capital Room) Chairman: GLADYS-MARLE FRYE, Chairman: DUNCAN EMRICH, American University of Maryland University Chairman: WILLIAM A. WILSON, Brigham Young University Panel: 1. The Story in Its Natural Setting. J. R. RAYFIELD, York University 1. Magico-Religious Origins of Games ( S;ERLING BROWN, Howard and Sports in Formosa. TING-JUI HO, ~uni versity 2. Tribulations with Thompson: A New Florida State University Tool for the Analysis of Narratives. JOHN LOVELL, Howard FRANK GOODWYN, University of Maryland 2. The Californians' Attitude toward University the Chinese in the 1800's. JAMES L. 3. An Early French Liars' Club: Philippe EVANS, Pan American College ORLANDO TAYLOR, Center d'Alcripe's La Nouvelle Fabrique (ca. for Applied Linguistics, 1579). GERALD THOMAS, Memorial Univer­ 3. Japanese-American Health Customs Washington, D.C. sity of Newfoundland and Their Transmission. WINIFRED DAHL, University of California, From Reality to Fantasy: Opening Berkeley and Closing Formulas in American Tall Tales. J. RUSSELL REAVER, Florida State University Tall Tales and Tellers: Toward a New Methodology. RICHARD S. TALLMAN, Memorial University of Newfoundland 8:00 P.M. ETHNOGRAPHIC
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