What Folklorists Do
Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Published:5th Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£31.00(9780253058423)
What can you do with a folklore degree? Over six dozen folklorists, writing from their own experiences, show us.
What Folklorists Do examines a wide range of professionals—both within and outside the academy, at the beginning of their careers or holding senior management positions—to demonstrate the many ways that folklore studies can shape and support the activities of those trained in it. As one of the oldest academic professions in the United States and grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, folklore has always been concerned with public service and engagement beyond the academy. Consequently, as this book demonstrates, the career applications of a training in folklore are many—advocating for local and national causes; shaping public policy; directing and serving in museums; working as journalists, publishers, textbook writers, or journal editors; directing national government programs or being involved in historic preservation; teaching undergraduate and graduate students; producing music festivals; pursuing a career in politics; or even becoming a stand-up comedian.
A comprehensive guide to the range of good work carried out by today's folklorists, What Folklorists Do is essential reading for folklore students and professionals and those in positions to hire them.
Audio book narrated by Walter Brown. Produced by Speechki in 2021.
Timothy Lloyd, former Executive Director of the American Folklore Society, has assembled a valuable compendium of 76 short essays by folklorists, mostly North Americans, exploring an impressively broad range of professional options and careers. . . . What Folklorists Do is an important, exciting and accessible book that I would recommend to anyone with any interest in folklore.
- Timothy H. Evans (Journal of Folklore and Education)What Folklorists Do is certainly a useful book for budding folklorists who wonder what they might do after the diploma is earned and the paychecks need to start rolling in.
- Hilary-Joy Virtanen, Finlandia University (Western Folklore)Timothy Lloyd's book is a useful collection on a number of levels, helping the reader understand the working world of the professional folklorist. Taken as a whole, the collection is, in a sense, an occupational folklife ethnography of a particular academic subject, albeit almost exclusively in the United States.
- Gerald Pocius (Journal of Folklore Research Reviews)But the message of the collection is a positive and proud one: we as folklorists have a great amount to offer society. The value of studying folklore is indisputably laid out in seventy-six different ways, which is why I will be recommending What Folklorists Do to my Folklore Studies students—who I hope will be inspired to become ambassadors themselves.
- Ceri Houlbrook (Folklore)What Folklorists Do identifies an important and pressing conversation that will undoubtedly engage scores of researchers from academic, public, and government sectors. It is a crucial topic that will necessitate reimagining as we find ourselves in new phases of post-pandemic life and work.
- Vyta Pivo, University of Michigan (Journal of American FolklISBN: 9780253058430
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Weight: 567g
268 pages