Sentences with word «folklorist»
A folklorist is someone who studies and explores the traditional stories, customs, and beliefs of a particular culture or community. They are interested in preserving and understanding a culture's folklore, which includes legends, myths, songs, dances, and other forms of art passed down through generations. Full definition
«Folklorist of the Brush and Palette»: Rare Winold Reiss Exhibition Features Distinct, Illuminating Portraits of Harlem Figures
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The «Ask an Astrophysicist» section of the Web site of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center dismisses this story, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunand has documented the evolution of the legend.
About Site - Cunning Folk is a folk singer, musician, storyteller & folklorist who administers the South East London Folklore Society & also organizes the annual Bermondsey Folk Festival.
The Baroque fantasy is based on three stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile.
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Violeta Went to Heaven (from Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain), directed by Andrés Wood — A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
And as for relating to institutional art world structures, she sees the work of public folklorists concentrating in the arts as having anticipated «relational aesthetics» and «social practice,» but «done so on its own terms and by privileging the voice of the artistic tradition - bearer rather than the curator or artist / interpreter.»
The contributions made to black women's literary tradition by the pioneering folklorist / storyteller Zora Neale Hurston and contemporary novelist Alice Walker are assessed.
But even if there weren't, I think we'd have to play the game as though there were»; and «I'm afraid, Gringo, I must agree, with our distinguished folklorist and foremost witness to the ontological revelations of the patterns of history... and [I] have come to the conclusion that God exists and he is a nut» (pp. 167.68).
For example, there is a number, probably a fixed and limited number — archetypal, Jung would say — to which we can reduce the mass of themes in the universe as they might be catalogued by such folklorists as Aarne - Thompson.
Mayor, a classical folklorist, recounts in lively, sometimes darkly comic detail the diabolical stratagems devised by devious warriors for tactical ends: arrows dipped in toxins; jewel - encrusted urns booby - trapped with plague - laden garments; and a host of dirty tricks involving snakes, stinging beetles, and venomous frogs.
As recorded by regional labels and collected by enterprising folklorists like Alan Lomax and Harry Smith, the American vernacular music of the 20's and 30's retains an indelible, uncanny intensity.
Ostensibly based on a lost folklorist's collected works, it acts like a Guy Maddin, looks like early Jim Jarmusch, and really doesn't work at all, because if the film is a variation on a theme, it's a riff that goes on way, way too long.
As a sort of freelance folklorist, I am enormously interested in the stories cultures tell about themselves.
O'Sullivan tells the great Irish writer's story in concert with those of Wilde's physician, archaeologist, antiquarian, and folklorist father, William; translator, poet, and mythographer mother, Jane; and brother, William, a gifted and troubled society journalist.
The Guardian reports that 500 long - lost fairy tales, collected in the mid-19th century by German folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, have been rediscovered.
Taking its title from folklorist William Ferris's seminal text on Thomas's work, «The Devil and His Blues» will be the first major institutional solo presentation of James «Son Ford» Thomas's sculpture to take place since the artist's death in 1993.
It focuses on the story of a whitethorn bush in west Ireland and folklorist Eddie Lenihan, who successfully campaigned to have a motorway redirected in order to save the bush, which he claims is an important meeting place for belligerent fairies of the region.
Bruce Jackson: On the Inside A folklorist's 1970s - era chronicle of prisons in Texas and Arkansas By Brian Wallis
Thunderbird Jewelry of Santo Domingo Pueblo, curated by folklorist J. Roderick Moore and by Wheelwright Museum curator Cheri More...
Receipt of a Magical Agent employs the structure of the fairy tale as a curatorial approach, drawing from the morphology devised by twentieth - century Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp.
Somewhat biographical in origin, Fish's storylines simultaneously rekindle folklorist oral tradition and respond to mass culture in a nostalgic visual language, enveloping viewers in its fantastical, mythical environment.
The 1979 original, directed and co-written by Fred Walton, was presumably an adaptation of the well - known urban legend that folklorist Jan Harold Brunwand traced back as early as 1971.
About Blog Cunning Folk is a folk singer, musician, storyteller & folklorist who administers the South East London Folklore Society & also organizes the annual Bermondsey Folk Festival.
«Violeta Went to Heaven» (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos): (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain) A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Jasper explains that as a public folklorist, she works to utilize some of the existing standard presentational formats (gallery or museum exhibitions, staged performances, etc.), when and if appropriate, for sharing artistic traditions with a larger public.
With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.
So we have left the job to the literary scholars and linguists, to the folklorists and anthropologists.
Folklorists, rhetoricians, and theatre directors have followed Turner's leads to study the variety of ways that humankind «performs.»
In spite of the best efforts of rhetoricians, communication scholars, anthropologists and folklorists, «performance» is conventionally but narrowly associated with theatrical imagery.
Born in 1943 in Valparaiso to famous singer, composer, folklorist and songwriter Violeta Parra, the singer was «not only the member of a dynasty of incomparable creators» but was also a «charismatic and generous personality,» Covarrubias said.
Folklorists, including the Brothers Grimm, have long assumed the story, as well as other tales such as Rumpelstiltskin and Beauty and the Beast, is ancient.
About Blog Blog by Brandon Weston, I'm a spiritual healer, native plant herbalist, folklorist, and writer living in the beautiful Arkansas Ozark mountains.
Proverb 2: Professor Archer Taylor (1890 - 1973), a folklorist, writes about a Roman proverb.
«World over, we seem intent on splintering ourselves into as many sub-groups as it will take for us to feel comfortable in our skins again,» writes Harmony Siganporia, who in the aftermath of Brexit revisits the teachings of poet, folklorist, scholar and grammarian AK Ramanujan to further explore the meanings of context - free and context - sensitive cultures.
The famous Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist is portrayed in a spirited biography spiced with quotes from her work.
Jane Yolen is a novelist, poet, fantasist, journalist, songwriter, storyteller, folklorist, and children's book author who has written more than three hundred books.
Not an anthropologist, not a folklorist, and I have never eaten a bug or played the pipe organ in Bohemia.
Savannah ghost walking tours are conducted by The Storyteller, a historian - sensitive, folklorist, paranormal researcher, and licensed Savannah tour guide with over 30 years of research and first - hand encounters with what is commonly called psychic or paranormal phenomena.
This exhibition curated by Raymond Foye presents the visual art of Harry Smith (1923 - 1991) painter, filmmaker, folklorist, anthropologist, and practicing magician; seen in the light of two of his most dedicated and influential admirers, Philip Taaffe (b. 1955) and Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956).
Three enlightening texts round out this compact publication: Luc Steels is a scientist specializing in artificial intelligence; Shin «Ichi Nakazawa is a theologist and folklorist; and Itsuko Hasegawa weighs in with a curatorial perspective.
Lisa Wilson is a folklorist and self - taught painter currently working as a graveyard conservator in the ghost town of Port Royal, in Newfoundland.
Jeremy Deller is an anthropologist of the ordinary, a field recorder of the overlooked, and a folklorist of the popular.
«Art is an expression that every human has — whether mentally ill, indigent, imprisoned, hobbyist or folklorist,» he added.