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2011 Annual Report

Folklore Society


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The Years Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

International Engagements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Publications and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

From the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Committee Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cultural Diversity Committee

Committee on International Issues

Membership Committee

Nominating Committee

Journal of American Folklore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

From the Editors Book Reviews

Exhibit and Event Reviews

Sound Recording Reviews

Website Reviews

AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Open Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Section Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Childrens Folklore Review Digest

The Folklore Historian

Jewish Cultural Studies

New Directions in Folklore

Archives Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Delegate Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

American Council of Learned Societies

National Recording Preservation Board World Intellectual Property Organization

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2011 Annual Report

The Years Highlights

The historic Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, siof the 2012 annual meeting. ( 2012 Oyster.com

Santa Fe Community Convention Center, site of the 2014annual meeting. ( 2011 Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau

MembershipAs of August 31, 2011, AFS membership was up 7%from ve years ago. Student membership was up 45%from ve years ago.

We received 410 responses to our 2011 membersurvey, up 33% from the number of 2006 responsesand up 60% from those of 2002. Well be reporting onthose responses in early 2012.

Meetings

The 2011 annual meeting in Bloomington was one ofthe largest ever, with 753 registrants, including a recordnumber of international participants.

The sites for the next three AFS annual meetings are NewOrleans (October 2012), Providence (October 2013), andSanta Fe (November 2014).

Bylaws

In June 2011, the membership approved a proposalby the Executive Board to amend the AFS Bylaws tocreate a permanent Cultural Diversity Committee toreplace the ad hoc Cultural Diversity Task Force thatthe Society had maintained for a number of years.

CommunicationsJournal of American Folklore editors Thomas DuBoand James P. Leary successfully petitioned the AFExecutive Board to approve the creation of a JAmultimedia site, onto which authors can publish audand visual materials to supplement and evidence thJAF-published work. This site will debut in spring 201

The AFS Executive Board approved a change in thauthor deposit policy forJournal of American Folkloauthors that will make JAFmaterials more wideaccessible and will encourage academic folklorisuse of their home universities institutional repositorie


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US participants in the rst China-US Cultural Policy Conference (L to R): Willie Smyth, Ted Fischer, Robert Baron,William Ivey, Timothy Lloyd, Michael Ann Williams, and Charles H. Seemann. Not pictured: Daniel Sheehy.

2011 Annual Report

The AFS-Indiana University Libraries Open Folkloreteam received an Outstanding Collaboration Citationfrom the American Library Association in June.

Late in the year, the AFS staff completed a designupdate for theAFS website.

Special Projects

During 2011, AFS received the following grants andcontracts for special projects to benet the eld:

From the National Endowment for the Humanitiesfor the design and testing phase of the newNational Folklore Archives Initiative, a project AFSis undertaking in collaboration with academic,governmental, and public folklore organizationsacross the country.

From the Henry Luce Foundation for the rst twyears of the China-US Forum on Intangible CultuHeritage, to produce four conferences comparing Uand Chinese ICH policies, and a series of professiondevelopment exchanges for younger academic, publand independent folklorists from the two countries.

From the National Endowment for the Arts for ththird and fourth years of the AFS Consultanand Professional Development Program. Repofrom consultancies and professional developmeexperiences carried out in this program are availabon the AFS website.

From the American Folklife Centers Veterans HistoProject for the tenth year of an AFS-managed nationprogram of community-based workshops abocollecting oral histories from military veterans.
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AFS is also continuing work ona fourth two-year grant from theNational Endowment for theHumanities to create a scholarlyedition of the James MadisonCarpenter Collection, a majorcollection documenting folksong,

folk drama, folk music, andcustoms in the United Kingdom(and, to a lesser extent, the US)in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Folklore and Public Policy

In 2011, AFS began supportingthe activities of a working group onfolklore and historic preservationpolicy. In 2012, this working groupwill undertake a number of effortsintended to provide meaningfulopportunities for folklorists to join current dialoguesabout historic preservation policies of the future.

2011 Election

The following AFS members were elected to ofce inthe 2011 AFS election:

Executive Board(for a three-year 2012-14 term)

David Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas,St. Paul, Minnesota

Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Juwen Zhang, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon


(for a three-year 2012-14 term)

Sally Van de Water, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation,Baltimore, Maryland

The number of members casting votes rose from 210in the last non-presidential election in 2009 to 262 in2011a 25% increase.

Prize Recipients

AFS awarded the following honors in 2011:

The Kenneth S. Goldstein Award for LifetimAcademic Leadership to Barre Toelken, Utah StaUniversity, emeritus.

The Chicago Folklore Prize (for the years be

book) to Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto, fDreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of thImagination (University of California Press).

The Benjamin A. Botkin Prize (for achievementpublic folklore to Peggy A. Bulger, American FolklCenter, Library of Congress, and Amy E. SkillmaIndependent, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The Zora Neale Hurston Prize (for the best studework on African or African diaspora folklore) to VinceJoos, University of North Carolina, for the pap

The Natchez Fire: A Prole of African AmericaRemembrance in a Small Mississippi Town.

The Amrico Paredes Prize (for achievemein the study of ones own culture or encouraginsuch study) to Olga Njera-Ramrez, University California, Santa Cruz.

The Carpenter Collection team at work at the University of Aberdeen (L to R): Robert Y.Walser, David Atkinson, Julia Bishop, Thomas McKean, Eddie Cass, and Elaine Bradtke

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International Engagements

MembershipScholars from outside the US total about 15% of th

AFS membership.

Six AFS interest-group sections (African Folklore, BritiFolk Studies, Eastern Asia Folklife, MediterraneaStudies, Nordic-Baltic Folklore, Socialist and PosSocialist Area Studies) focus on international arestudies. AFSs other 24 sections all include internationdimensions in their work.

Communications

From 2001 to 2011, international scholars authore32 (15%) of the 212 articles and substantial notpublished in the Journal of American Folklore.

93 (49%) of the 191 articles appearing in the JAbetween 2001 and 2011 examined traditional culturactivities outside the US. Of the slightly more tha8,000 libraries and other institutions worldwide th

subscribe to the JAFin hard copy or online, just ov4,000 are outside the US.

Since 2008, AFS has partnered with the Folklore StudiAssociation of Canada/Association canadienndethnologie et de folklore, the International Society fFolk Narrative Research, The Folklore Society (UKthe National Folklore Support Centre (India), and thSocit internationale dethnologie et de folklore (thNetherlands) on the management and editing of thH-Folk Listserv for International Folklore Scholarshi

AFS is planning an effort, led by incoming PresideDiane Goldstein, to provide hard-copy and onlinaccess to scholarly books and journals in our eld fscholars and institutions worldwide that presently lathe technological or nancial resources to gain thaccess on their own.

Detail of a Zen Buddhist temple in Kunming, China.


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Annual Meetings

Scholars from outside the US deliver approximately 1 in6 (17%) of the 500 presentations delivered each year atour annual meeting.

In the last 10 years, AFS has provided nancialsupport for more than 60 international scholars from 24

countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and SouthAmerica to participate in our meeting.

AFS held a joint annual meeting in Qubec in 2007with the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/

Association canadienne dethnologie et de folklore.

We are discussing a possible 2016 joint annual meetingin the eastern US with the International Society for FolkNarrative Research.

Partnerships

Since 2002, AFS has been recognized as an accreditednon-governmental organization member of theIntergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Propertyand Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, andFolklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

In 2010, AFS was accepted as a non-governmentalorganization member of UNESCOs IntergovernmentalCommittee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible

Cultural Heritage.

In 2011, AFS received a major grant from theHenry Luce Foundation to lead the rst phase of amultiple-year partnership (involving conferences andprofessional exchanges) that brings together AFS, theChina Folklore Society, ve universities and museumsin China, and four universities and museums in the US.

In 2011, AFS signed memoranda of agreement withthe Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia of

Mexico and the Folklore Society of Japan, indicatingour mutual interests in pursuing opportunities forcooperative activities.

Top and Center: Calligraphy and traditional clothing ondisplay at the Yunnan Nationalities Museum in Kunming,

China. Bottom: AFS President C. Kurt Dewhurstwith Suga Yutaka, representing the President of the

Folklore Society of Japan, at the signing of the AFS-FSJmemorandum of agreement in Bloomington, IN.

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Publications and Communication

1. The Journal of American Folklore, currently inits 124th year as part of the core canon of our eld,edited by Thomas DuBois and James P. Leary of theUniversity of Wisconsin, published for AFS by theUniversity of Illinois Press, and distributed in hardcopy and online by the Press, JSTOR, and ProjectMUSE.

2. A JAFmultimedia site, onto which authors canpublish audio and visual materials to supplement andevidence their JAF-published work, which the JAFeditors and the Press are now populating with contentfor a spring 2012 debut.

3. The AFS website,AFSnet.org, edited by LorraineWalsh Cashman, which provides information aboutthe Society and eld and many information servicesincluding job notices, a calendar of events in the eld,and discussion forumsto members, and which is

the home for periodic email communications from theSociety to its members.

4. Embedded in the website, the online publicationthe AFS Review, edited by John Laudun of theUniversity of Louisiana, Lafayette, which containsannouncements, news, essays, and opinion pieces.

5. TheAFS Ethnographic Thesaurus, an open-accessonline controlled vocabulary tool for the descriptionof ethnographic research and collections, edited by a

committee based at the American Folklife Center andmaintained by the Indiana University Librarys DigitalLibrary Program.

6. The Open Folklore web portal to a variety of usefresources for folklore studiesincluding many bookwebsites, an increasing number of folklore journals, aa wealth of gray (unpublished) literaturemaintaineby an AFS partnership with the Indiana UniversLibraries and its Digital Library Program.

7. The publications of seven of the Societys section

Childrens Folklore Review, Digest, The Folklore anEducation Section Newsletter, The Folklore HistoriaJewish Cultural Studies, New Directions in Folklorand the Public Programs Bulletin.

8. The folklore volume of the annual MLA InternationBibliography, the result of a partnership involvin

AFS, Indiana Universitys Department of Folklore aEthnomusicology, whose graduate students indmaterials for the volume, and the Modern Languag

Association, which publishes it.

9. The H-Folk International Listserv for FolkloScholarship, maintained by a partnership of six folklosocieties worldwide, including AFS.

10. This annual report.

The Societys active and growing publications and communications program now comprises ten elementmade possible by fruitful AFS partnerships with other organizations:
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From the President

In a world that seems to be evolving at an increasing rate, in 201the American Folklore Society stayed abreast of the changinlandscape for academic societies and non-prot organizationand forged new initiatives and collaborative partnerships wigovernment agencies, academic programs, scholarly societieand non-prot organizations that have advanced our elThese partnerships have led to success in securing fundinfrom several foundations and federal agencies. Through thwork, AFS, its members, and other institutions in the eld are c

creating research, educational, and professional programs thare changing our eld and dramatically increasing the visibiliand understanding of our work.

AFS has taken formal steps to establish global collaborations wifolklore organizations in China, Japan, and Mexico during thpast year. There is also a growing and lively discussion within thSociety about how to build equitable and sustained relationship

in other parts of the worldin many of which we have had limited formal collaboration a topic special importance since our international membership is growing.

With the advent of international treaties and conventions, such as the UNESCO Convention fthe Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, AFS has become deeply involved in intangiband tangible cultural policy and practice: documenting, preserving, and presenting oral traditionperforming arts, social practices, rituals, festivals, and the knowledge and skills to productraditional craft. Society leaders and members have played an active role in this dialogue and ashaping the way that intangible and tangible cultural heritage will be protected and sustained the years ahead.

Finally, we have invested in our own future by adding new members (especially a growing numbeof student members), receiving a record amount and number of contributions to our Sustainer

Fund, and accruing a growing number of planned gifts to build the Societys Endowment FunThanks to the exceptional leadership of our staff and of a dedicated and inspired board, the AFS in a strong strategic position. It has been an honor to serve as President during the past two yearand I am condent that the Society will grow in exciting and innovative ways in the coming year

C. Kurt Dewhurst, President


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Financial Report for FY 2011

Revenue:

Expenses:

Total Revenue: $732, 20

Total Expenses: $722, 91

Net Income: $9,29

Grants and Contracts $400,714 55%

Publications $121,372 17%

Annual Meeting (Nashville) $78,635 11%

Membership $75,320 10%

Investment Income $26,714 4%

Other Revenue $29,453 4%

Programs $355,066 49%

Management andAdministration $219,790 30%

Publications $76,219 11%

Annual Meeting (Nashville) $71,843 10%

* The AFS scal year runsfrom September 1 to August 31.

** All gures are unaudited.


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Committee Reports

Cultural Diversity CommitteeThis has been a notable year for this new AFS standingcommittee. At the April 2012 meeting of the ExecutiveBoard of AFS, there was lengthy discussion about thethen-named Cultural Diversity Task Force, as a resultof which the Executive Board voted unanimously toask the membership to vote on changing the Bylawsof the Society to transform this ad hoc committee intoa standing (i.e., permanent) committee, the CulturalDiversity Committee. The question to change the

Bylaws was put to the membership of AFS, and in June2011, it was announced that the great majority of thosevoting had voted in the afrmative.

At the Executive Boards meeting in Bloomington, andwith the advice and consent of the Executive Board,President Kurt Dewhurst appointed Amy Skillman,Bill Westerman, and me (as chair) to serve on thecommittee beginning in 2012. 2012 AFS PresidentDiane Goldstein, again working with the Board, willappoint three more members in early 2012. The Board

also conducted an in-depth discussion of the initialpriorities for the Committee, and voted to approve thefollowing initial charge to the Committee:

The Board initially charges the committee to focusits attention on increasing diverse participation inthe Society and eld by people of color, with theunderstanding that this focus may change over time.The Board initially recommends that the committeeattend to four areas of actionSociety membership,annual meeting, journal, and portals into the eld

and to focus rst on the annual meeting, with theunderstanding that this focus may change over time.Based on guidelines provided by the Board, thecommittee will bring back initial recommendationsfor action, and a timeline for those actions, to theBoard at its April 2012 meeting.

The Committee held its annual open meeting later inthe schedule of the Bloomington annual meeting. Therewere approximately 20 in attendance: one of the largergatherings in recent years. I provided an overview of

recent developments of the Committee, and then thoor was opened for general discussion. Key poinin this discussion were the following: 1) engagemewith stakeholders of all levels, both in the disciplinand those with whom we work; 2) looking at othdisciplines and other organizations that might be natural t with folklore; 3) understanding the barriethat might hinder our work, including terminology our discipline and our personal barriers that might limwhat we are able to do.

Marilyn M. White, ChairKean University, retired


The committee has had a slow year. We awardestipends to two scholars from abroad to attend thannual meeting in Bloomington: Professor Fekad

Azeze of Addis Ababa University and Dr. Amene(Saghi) Gazerani of Tehran. The committee will ma

awards for American members traveling to foreigconferences after our competition closes in Decembe

We were a bit surprised to receive so few applicatiothis year, the more as both colleagues were alreaknown to us and we could not practice a blind reviewThere is certainly an argument that the committee, anindeed AFS itself, is so small a group that it is virtuaimpossible to isolate a selection process for our smstipends.

Therefore we have decided to try to take advantag

of whatever prior knowledge of applicants is availabfrom members of the committee or other AFSerWe urge the membership to be active in referrininternational scholars to the stipend program, anto remember that they themselves can apply to gabroad. We are particularly eager to build our netwoin Latin America and Africa. The growing relationshbetween AFS and Chinese folklorists will doubtlebring us more stipend applications from China, with thusual difculties of evaluation.


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We thank members Maria Teresa Agozzino, MarkBender, JoAnn Conrad, Merrill Kaplan, Peter JanMargry, Tok Thompson, and past chairs TimothyTangherlini and Dorothy Noyes for their devoted serviceto this committee and to AFS.

Lee Haring, ChairBrooklyn College, emeritus


In 2011 the major activity of the MembershipCommittee (my fellow members were Ray Cashmanof The Ohio State University, Tim Evans of WesternKentucky University, Lisa Gabbert of Utah StateUniversity, Ruth Olson of the University of Wisconsin,Patricia Sawin of the University of North Carolina,and Dan Wojcik of the University of Oregon) was

to help the AFS staff decide upon and articulate thequestions for the Societys 2011 member survey. Inthe end, 410 members responded to the survey, up33% from the number who responded in 2006 andup 60% from the number who responded in 2002.The staff is now compiling and analyzing the surveyresults, and will be reporting on them shortly after thebeginning of 2012.

Margaret (Peggy) R. Yocom, ChairGeorge Mason University


This year, the committee (on which I was joined Christina Barr of Nevada Humanities, Amy E. Skillmaindependent folklorist and member of the AFS ExecutiBoard, and Stephen D. Winick of the American FolklCenter) nominated six candidates for the Executive Boa(one of whom had to withdraw from the election) and twcandidates for the Nominating Committee, as follows:

Executive Board:

Nadia De Leon, Western Kentucky University

David Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas

Jerrilyn McGregory, Florida State University

Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University

Juwen Zhang, Willamette UniversityNominating Committee:

Sally Van de Water, Mid Atlantic Arts Alliance

Patricia Sawin, University of North Carolina

Thank you to all of the candidates for their willingness serve AFS.

Suzanne K. Seriff, ChairUniversity of Texas, Austin

New AFS Board members David Todd Lawrence, Juwen Zhang, and Solimar Otero, and Nominating Committee member Sally Van de Wa



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Journal of American Folklore

From the EditorsJAF is a quarterly publication. Issues 491-494contained four addresses, ten articles, four creativewriting pieces, and a variety of obituaries and reviewsof different sorts. The editors were gratied especiallyby adding a website review section (see report byNicole Saylor) and by establishing a section for poetryand short ction on matters fundamental to the eld.

JAF received a total of 40 submitted articles duringthe calendar year of 2011. Of these, we rejected 20,accepted 8, and still had 12 under review at the endof the year. The Journalstaff, along with the Universityof Illinois Press, also developed the framework for anonline multimedia site that will debut in the springissue of 2012 (496).

Our thanks go to the Journals Division at the Universityof Illinois Press, and to our production editor HeatherMunson in particular, for their assistance.

Thomas DuBois and

James P. Leary, EditorsUniversity of Wisconsin

Book Reviews

Between January 1 and November 1, 2011, I tookover book review editor duties from Carolyn Ware ofLouisiana State University. During this time, I receivedover 30 new books for review. I also received over 200books from Carolyn. I submitted 14 complete reviewsto the editors of the Journal, and 26 book reviews were

published. 34 books are currently out for review.

I would like to thank Carolyn Ware as well as previousbook reviewer Jill Terry Rudy, the general editors ofJAF,and all of the reviewers who have completed reviews.

A backlog of books written by folklorists and in need ofreview continues to exist; I encourage prominent andactive members of the eld to contribute to the importantscholarly task of evaluating research and contributionsto knowledge through book reviews. If you are solicited

to write a review, please consider every possibility agree or be prepared to suggest the name of an evemore qualied colleague. If you are interested in titleposted on the website, or in others of signicant intereto the eld, please contact me.

Gregory Hansen, EditorArkansas State University

Exhibit and Event Reviews

The year 2011 was slow for reviews of exhibits anevents. One review was published, and one review wsubmitted. Drafts of two reviews of two installations one traveling exhibit are due before the year close

A number of inquiries (by the review editor and potential reviewers) have been volleyed back and fortresulting, to date, in little action. I welcome many mosuggestions for both potential reviews and reviewers

Lisa L. Higgins, EditorMissouri Folk Arts Program

Sound Recordings Reviews

In 2011 theJAFsound recording reviews were expandeto include recordings of Native American storytellers anHeritage Tour Guides in addition to more conventioncollections of music and song.

Seven recordings were reviewed, edited, and submitteto the JAFeditorial ofce. These included:

Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore: A Sampler Songs, Narrations and Tunes, 2006. Produced Peter Narvez and MMaP, Memorial University Newfoundland, St. Johns.

Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Le

Collection (1954-1961): Anthology of Music Traditio

in Israel, 14, 2001. Selections and commentariby Francesco Spagnolo. Jewish Music ResearcCentre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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Cascade Loop Heritage Tour South: Tour Guide,2010. Directed by Jill Linzee; researched andwritten by Jill Linzee, Jens Lund, and Kay Norton.Northwest Heritage Resources, Booklet and CDs.

If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings

Reverend Gary Davis, 2003. Recorded and

produced by John Cohen, annotated byJohn Cohen and Horace Boyer. SmithsonianFolkways Recordings.

Willie Smyth, EditorWashington State Arts Commission

Website Reviews

In 2011 I received six web review contributions, ofwhich six were approved for publication. Website

reviews, a new feature in JAF, focus primarily onthe utility of the site for research and teaching. Whilereviews often talk about the scholarship and how it tswithin the standards of the cultures addressed, thereviews must also address issues of navigation andinterface design. The review should be up to 1,000words long, including the title of review, bibliographicinformation that runs at the top of the review, and thebody of the review itself.

Nicole Saylor, Editor

University of Iowa Libraries


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AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus

The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFSET) is asearchable online vocabulary that can be usedto improve access to information about folklore,ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and relatedelds. Supported by a generous grant from theScholarly Communications Program of the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, and early planning-grant fundingfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities, the

American Folklore Society developed the Thesaurusin cooperation with the American Folklife Center of theLibrary of Congress.

TheAFSETis now out of its beta-testing phase and isfully operational and usable as a controlled vocabularytool for folklore studies and related ethnographicdisciplines. TheAFSETis live and accessible from adedicated tab at the Open Folklore portal site. Now thatit is available as a stable resource, the AFSETwillalso begin to gure more prominently in the publishingand database work of various projects afliated withOpen Folklore, including IUScholarWorks and theJournal of American Folklorethe agship journal of

the AFS. In 2012, we will develop tutorial resourcesto help scholars and project teams in their use oftheAFSET. The incorporation of theAFSETinto theOF portal was made possible through the combinedefforts of theAFSETeditorial team and the IU DigitalLibrary Program.

Catherine Hiebert Kerst, Margaret Kruesi,and Michael Taft, Editorial Team

American Folklife Center,Library of Congress

The interactive tree view of theAFSETallows users to see hierarchical categoriesof standardized terms that they might use

to describe their subject matter.
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Open Folklore

On October 13, 2010, the American Folklore Societyand the Indiana University Libraries launched theOpenFolklore (OF) project and its associated web portal,located at www.openfolklore.org. Open Folklore is anonline open-access scholarly resource that is makinga greater number and variety of useful resources, bothpublished and unpublished, available for the eld offolklore studies and the communities with which folklorescholars partner.

Outstanding Collaboration AwardIn June 2011, Open Folklore received the OutstandingCollaboration Award presented by the Association forLibrary Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Inhighlighting the project, ALCTS noted:

In a noteworthy collaborative effort, the OpenFolklore Project has fullled a scholarly need byestablishing an online portal to provide open onlineaccess to many useful, but heretofore difcult to

access, research materials in the eld of folklorestudies. Research materials include books, journals,gray (unpublished) literature, and websites. TheOpen Folklore Project serves as a new model forcollection development and scholarly communicationfor building discipline-based digital collections.Besides providing open access to researchmaterials, the portal offers full-text searching andallows folklore scholars and enthusiasts to identifyand select reliable scholarly content, differentiatingit from popular, and sometimes, unreliable, online

search engine content. This project actively worksto encourage partnerships to collaboratively digitizematerials, place them in open-access digitalrepositories, and share them with the folklorecommunity. The Open Folklore Project can proudlyserve as a model for collaborative projects in otherscholarly disciplines.

The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus

TheAFS Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFSET) is now oof its beta-testing phase and is live and accessible froa dedicated tab at the OF portal site. For details, pleasee theAFSETreport on page 13.

New Scholarly Content from AFS, the

IUScholarWorks Repository, and Google Books

Over the past six months, a large body of new scholacontent has been incorporated into the Open Folklouniverse. Most prominent in this additional scholamaterial are publications issued over many decades the AFS. Much new AFS material has been includein the IUScholarWorks Repository as part of threpositorys AFS community.

A key addition to the AFS community in IUScholarWorRepository is a large corpus of syllabi develope

The 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Awardpresented to the Open Folklore project team.
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for folklore and folklife courses at all levels by AFSmembers. This is a collection that will continue to growin the years ahead. The Folklore Teaching ResourcesCollection presently includes 55 contributions from adiversity of folklore scholars. These resources are fullydiscoverable via Open Folklore search. They are alsobrowsable in IUScholarWorks Repository.

A remarkable addition to the group of AFS materialsbeing made available through the IUScholarWorksRepository is a nearly complete set of documentschronicling the Societys annual meetings goingback to 1889. For recent years, these are the printedmeeting programs but, for the early years, rich narrativeaccounts of the meetings that were originally publishedin The Journal of American Folklore are now freelyavailable. These meetings-related materialspricelessresources for both the history of the eld and for the

pursuit of current researchare fully discoverable viaOpen Folklore search. They are also browsable inIUScholarWorks Repository. A few small gaps in thecontinuous record remain and the OF team is nowworking toward providing access to annual meetingprogram books for those missing from the 1950s andfor the 1975-2003 period.

Among the other new AFS content additions are thebackles of a key journal, Childrens Folklore Review(1990-2006) and its predecessor the Childrens

Folklore Newsletter(1979-1990). This content is nowfully accessible in IUScholarWorks Repository andsearchable at the issue level via Open Folklore search.

Continued progress is being made toward the goalof making the backles of all of the AFSs section

journals freely available online, either as part of theIUScholarWorks Repositoryor the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Some folklore journal titles, including others among thecorpus of AFS section publications that are availablewithin the HathiTrust Digital Library, are now also availablevia Google Books. The content newly accessible viaGoogle Books includes Keystone Folklore, JewishFolklore and Ethnology Review, Folklore Historian,and some issues ofDigest. Finding aids to assist usersin accessing these journals within Google Books willbe made available in IUScholarWorks and the OpenFolklore Portal soon. Stay tuned for details.

New Scholarly Content Added to the OF Archive

Collection

Since the projects last report on additional OF contein Archive-It, a number of additional folklore studiwebsites have been permanently archived and madaccessible via this unique service. The newest additioto the OF Archive-It Collection are the Center for thStudy of Upper Midwestern Culture and SmithsoniaFolkways Recordings. Inclusion of The Quilt Index wbe completed soon. Access to the archived websitecan be gained from the Websites tab at the OpeFolklore portal or directly within Archive-It.

A New OF Screencast

The second in a series of OF tutorial screencasts hbeen produced and released. Focusing on accessin

open access journals in folklore and ethnology via thOF portal site, the video can be found embedded in thOF portal site, downloadable from Indiana Universiand on YouTube. We will be producing additionscreencasts in the year ahead.

Julianne Bobay, Jennifer Laherty,Moira Marsh, Sherri Michaels, and Garrett

Montanez, Indiana University Libraries

Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana University

Timothy Lloyd, American Folklore Society

Project Team

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Section Publications

Childrens Folklore ReviewAs this 33rd volumeof Childrens FolkloreReview goes topress, I feel excitedabout its high level ofachievement. This yearwe have two winners ofthe William Wells NewellPrize: Spencer Green,

author of DisastrousAlternatives: Boy ScoutDisaster Stories andLegends and Imaginingthe Natural World, andSteve Stanzak, author of Manipulating Play Frames:The Yo Momma Joke Cycle on YouTube. Both of theseoutstanding essays would have delighted William WellsNewell, who held childrens creativity and traditionconservation in such high esteem. Because of spacelimitations, this issue contains Greens essay; Stanzaks

will appear in Volume 34.

Besides one of the two Newell Prize-winning essays,this volume of Childrens Folklore Review containsother extremely interesting essays. Katharine R. M.Schramms Nascent Folklore explores the emerginginterdisciplinary eld of communication and aestheticsin infant behavior; Neal Lesters Fathers and Their

African American Daughters: Hair Pieces CreatingTies That Bind explicates the signicance of African

American girls hair; Mona Lisa Saloys Sidewalk

Songs, Jump-Rope Rhymes, and Clap-Hand Gamesof African American Children examines the wealthof childrens folklore among children in New Orleansbefore Hurricane Katrina; and Robert MacGregorsThe Appropriation of a Commercial Trademark:The Golliwog as a Cultural Marker traces contestedrepresentation of a cultural symbol in the UnitedKingdom. I am proud to add that the two short essayson dangerous games, Karin Phillipss Genetic BubbleWrap and Pamela Weintraubs Failing to Fly but Free

Falling: Jumping as a Form of Childhood Releasewere written by two outstanding undergraduastudents in my Childrens Folklore class at BinghamtoUniversity last spring.

This fall we celebrate the acceptance of all back issueofChildrens Folklore Reviewinto the IUScholarWoronline repository, where they are completely texsearchable through the AFS-IU Open Folklore portI want to thank Jennifer Laherty of the IU Libraries fall of her help in making this possible. Now scholars

childrens folklore have access to all of our publishematerial. We will continue to send each new issue ScholarWorks, with a one-year lag between publicatioof an issue and its appearance on the ScholarWorWeb site.

I want to thank the Deans Ofce at Harpur College Binghamton University, which generously covers all thexpenses ofChildrens Folklore Review. I am also vegrateful to Kathy Buchta for her ne work on layoudesign and to Sheridan Press for its excellent work.

Li Cornfeld, our new book review editor, is starting work on reviews for our next issue. Anyone who woulike to review a book on childrens folklore or a relatesubject can contact her at [email protected].

Elizabeth Tucker, EditorBinghamton University

Digest

Diane Tye (Memorial University of Newfoundland) anMichael Lange (Champlain College) are the new ceditors of the AFS Foodways Sections journal Diges

They will be using an innovative editorial modedrawing on the disciplinary expertise at Memorial anthe skills in graphic design and digital publication Champlain to create and maintain an online journDiane will handle the peer reviewing and contenrelated editing processes, while Mike will handle thgraphic design, web design, and digital publicatio
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processes necessary to turn the content into anaccessible journal. This editorial arrangement willboth distribute the workload and allow for maximumexibility and sustainability for the journal, assuring itscontinued success. Champlain and Memorial haveboth given their institutional support, with Champlainallotting some nancial support as well.

The new Digest will include a variety of offerings,from peer-reviewed articles to smaller pieces suchas reviews, news and notes, reports from the eld,recipes, photography, updates from section members,conference info and announcements. The goal is tocontinue to provide much of what Digesthas offered tothe section members, while broadening and deepeningthe journals offerings.

Diane I. Tye, EditorMemorial University of Newfoundland

Michael A. Lange, EditorChamplain College


The past year has seenthe completion of thetransition from NanMcIntire to Jill Terry

Rudy as editor. Volume27, the 2010 issue of thejournal, was printed anddelivered in September2011. This volumeincluded two articlespreviously acceptedbefore the transition:the 2007 Richard ReussPrize winner Tilting theIvory Tower: The Life, Works, and Legacy of Gershon

Legman by Sarah Lash, and Political and TheoreticalFeminisms in American Folkloristics by JeanaJorgensen. Bridget K. ORourkes Highpockets andBottom Dogs: Chicago Industrial Lore of the FederalWriters Project was also published.

The journal has a new cover design, including a glosnish, photography on the cover, and a statemedescribing the journal on the back cover. Sandy Doland Jeannie Thomas completed service as advisoeditors. Michael Dylan Foster and Ellen McHale agreeto serve as advisory editors along with continuineditors Ronald L. Baker, W.F.H. Nicolaisen, Simon

Bronner, and Nan McIntire.

With the move from Indiana State University, thadvisory editors agreed that members of the HoosiFolklore Society no longer will receive the journal as paof their membership. Because this included institutionmemberships, we are working with AFS througLorraine Walsh Cashman and journal subscriptioservices to assure that libraries receive the journal.

We received approximately ten queries about publishinin the journal and three to ve submissions. Onauthor will be encouraged to submit to another journand two others were given suggestions for revisiobefore making another submission. The manuscripfor Volume 28 were all solicited from panels at th2010 AFS meeting in Nashville--two from the GreateGeneration panel, and one from the panel announcinthe AFS Oral History Project. Volume 28 will include aexcerpt from a transcript of Fife Folklore Archivist RanWilliams interviewing Barre Toelken for the project. Ware currently in the pre-production stage, copyeditin

and source checking manuscripts. Volume 28 shoube printed in January 2012.

Volume 29 will include papers from the 2011 AFmeeting in Bloomington from the Folklore and Historpanel organized by Thomas Carter. Several othpanels featured topics pertinent to the journal, so theare possibilities for papers for future volumes in additioto those received from queries or other submissions.

The journal receives support from the Brigham YounUniversity (BYU) College of Humanities as well afrom the Folklore and History section and Indiana StaUniversity for Volume 27. Editing and production suppois provided by the BYU Humanities Publication Grouwith Mel Thorne as director and Caitlin Schwanger alead editorial assistant on this project.

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Early in 2011, TheLittman Library of JewishCivilization, the publisherof the Jewish CulturalStudies series (http://www.littman.co.uk/jcs/),and the American FolkloreSociety received thenews that Jews at Home:The Domestication of

Identity, volume 2 of theseries, was honored as analist for the prestigious2010 National JewishBook Award in the category of anthologies and collections.

The third volume, titled Revisioning Ritual: JewishTraditions in Transition, was published in September2011 and was nominated for the 2011 NationalJewish Book Awards. The new volume, edited bySimon Bronner, examines modern adaptations andinventions of Jewish rituals and features contributionsfrom an international cast of scholarsmany of whomare American Folklore Society membersincluding

Alanna E. Cooper (US), Jean R. Freedman (US),Sander L. Gilman (Hong Kong), Harvey E. Goldberg(Israel), Jillian Gould (Canada), Michael Hoberman

(US), Agnieszka Jagodziska (Poland), Shaul Kelner(US), Irit Koren (Israel), Gail Labovitz (US), Vanessa L.Ochs (US), Hagar Salamon (Israel), Rachel Sharaby(Israel), Nina S. Spiegel (US), and Seth Ward (US).

The fourth volume, now in preparation with the tentativetitle of Framing Jewish Culture: Boundaries andRepresentations, is expected to be published in late2012. In addition to another notable list of internationalcontributors, it will include the winning essay of thePatai Prize competition, administered by the Jewish

Folklore and Ethnology Section of the AmericanFolklore Society. JCS board members Haya Bar-Itzhak(Haifa University and in 2011-2012, Indiana University)and Steve Siporin (Utah State University) served onthe prize committee.

A fth volume in the series is also in the works on thetopic of Jewish cyberculture; Andrea Lieber of DickinsonCollege has been invited to co-edit the volume withSimon Bronner. Members of the Jewish Folklore andEthnology Section of the AFS receive the volumes as

a benet of membership. Volumes are sold separateat a higher cost to institutions and individuals; thpublication is distributed widely in North America (oof Portland, Oregon), Europe (out of Oxford, Englandand Israel (out of Jerusalem).

Simon J. Bronner, Editor

Pennsylvania State University


Published bi-annually,

New Directions inFolklore (NDiF) is therefereed, open-accesse-journal of NewFolk@

AFS, an AFS section constituting a communof over one hundred scholars, professionals, angraduate students dedicated to pushing the envelopof scholarship in the exploration of contemporaculture. NDiF is dedicated to providing vital, up the minute and rigorous scholarship to an informescholarly audience of non-specialists. We invite wide range of articles, written in an accessible stythat examine contemporary culture through thhumanities or social sciences. Additionally, we invischolars who wish to utilize the unique opportuniti

presented by an exclusively online journal, whicinclude experimentation with unorthodox gures angraphics, such as embedded videos, active URL linkand animated pictures, in addition to more traditionarticle embellishments.

New Directions in Folklore was rst published onlinas the Impromptu Journal in July 1997. In 2000, thname was changed to New Directions in Folklore, it remains today. In 2010, after a nearly seven-yehiatus, the journal resurfaced online in partnership w

Indiana University Libraries, IUScholarWorks, and thAmerican Folklore Society.

In October 2010, New Directions in Folklore published rst issue in over seven years, volume 8, no. 1/2. In additioto an editorial introduction, two Notes essays by TyronYarbrough and Julia Kelso, respectively, and three booreviews, the volume also featured B. Grantham Aldredessay, Identity in 10,000 Pixels: LiveJournal UserPics anFractured Self Identity in Web 2.0, which has recordeover 1,300 views/downloads since its publication.

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In July 2011,NDiFpublished volume 9, no. 1, a specialissue on Quiltmaking in the Digital Age, which wasguest edited by Amanda Grace Sikarskie (MichiganState University). The issue included new inquiriesinto the intersection of technology and material culturein contemporary society, and featured the work ofMarsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Amanda Grace

Sikarskie, Justine Richardson, and Rhiannon Gainor,as well as four book reviews.

NDiFis currently in the process of publishing volume9, no. 2; the journal also anticipates the publication of aspecial monograph on folklore and 9/11 in Spring 2012.

Another promising development forNew Directionsin Folklore can be found in the perpetual increaseof article submissions to the journal. Since the rstcall for papers was posted for volume 8, no. 1/2 in

April 2010, NDiFhas consecutively garnered nearlytwice as many submissions in response to eachsuccessive Call for Papers announcement (now atotal of three, spanning Spring 2010, Fall 2010, andSummer 2011). While the total number of submissionsto date has not been particularly overwhelming, wenevertheless see this trajectory as a positive sign thatNew Directions in Folklore is solidifying its reputationwhile successfully encouraging scholars to considerthe burgeoning journal for sharing their research. Todate, our acceptance rate for article submissions is

approximately 55%.

As New Directions in Folklore continues to solidify itsvisibility and reputation within the folklore community,the journals editor and supporting personnel plan toaccomplish several important goals over the nextyear in order to ensure the journals continued growth.First and foremost, we intend to continue solicitingand publishing top-notch folkloristic research froma diverse body of scholars. To that end, we will bereaching out to veteran folklorists in an effort to

provide readers with new insights on contemporaryfolklore from respected minds; in doing so, we hopeto also help dispel any potential concerns of genreexclusivity, given the journals heavy emphasison topics pertaining to folklore and the Internet,computer-mediated communication, etc.

While we acknowledge that our bread and buttespecialization certainly rests with folklore in thDigital Age, we are most committed to encouraginprovocative and thoughtful submissions from branches of folkloristic inquirytechnocentor not. In heightening the prole of contributoremboldening the journals reputation and scop

hosting a student paper competition, and producinhigher quality journal issues, we hope to also witnethe subsequent citation of materials published in NeDirections in Folklore elsewhere. This is perhaps omost coveted goal and also the most difcult goto accomplish and/or measure. Nevertheless, wremain optimistic that an increasingly and reliabhigh quality journal publication will inevitably yiegreater attention as we continue to progress. Oeditorial team remains strong and active, and athe NewFolk@AFS section also grows and r

establishes its credentials among members, we acondent that our journal will benet accordingly.

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Archives

The AFS archives, housed graciously by the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah StateUniversity, contain materials collected through AFS projects, as well as Societydocuments--including some of the original papers of AFS founder William Wells Newell.

During 2011, Utah State University Special Collections and Archives provided reference support for the papeof the American Folklore Society. Under the direction of new manuscript curator Clint Pumphrey, USU begaadding recent accruals to the collection. This process instigated a change in collection policy, which statethat AFS should not archive rejected JAFsubmissions. USU also worked with members of AFS to facilitathe donation of ofcial organization records. Those wishing to donate materials may do so by contacting ClPumphrey at [email protected].

Randy Williams, Archival LiaisonUtah State University
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Delegate Reports

American Council of Learned SocietiesThis year ACLS chose to meet in Washington, wheredelegates from the member societies gathered at theLEnfant Plaza Hotel to meet with the ofcers and Boardof Directors. After the chair, Kwame Anthony Appiah,called us to order, he asked us to stand for a minutein memory of members now departed. The report ofthe Nominating Committee brought a bright spot forfolklore studies: Donald Brenneis, the Santa Cruzanthropologist and a long-time friend to folklore, was

nominated and elected to the ACLS Board of Directors.James J. ODonnell and Nancy Vickers were renamedas the Boards secretary and treasurer; Terry Castle,professor of English at Stanford, was elected to theBoard. Then came election to the Executive Committeeof the Delegates, which has responsibility for choosingthe annual Charles Homer Haskins Award Lecturer.

A geographer and a musicologist were added to theExecutive Committee this year. The application of onenew society for membership in ACLS was approved:this was the World History Association, which publishes

theJournal of World History. Because the WHA studiesphenomena like contact, communication, connections,and exchanges between and among cultures, its scopeand its comparative approach should be congenial tofolklore studies. The welcome to WHA brought ACLSsmembership to 72 learned societies.

The heart of an ACLS meeting, unless you arefascinated by nancial data, is the opportunity tohear about the Fellowship Programs. Again this year,through unusually skillful management of its nances,the organization managed to increase the number offellowships it offered. 4,000 applications were received;awards totaled $15,000,000; the number of applicationsgrows every year. Folklorists, who never seem toapply for ACLS Fellowships, may become interestedin a new program of awards for completing a doctoraldissertation. One interesting innovation is that somefellowship awards now include research funds, thusconnecting ACLS more closely with the universitiesto which awardees are connected. The New Faculty

Fellows program, about which I reported to you last yeand which has involved 96 universities and collegenow comes to an end, with 64 awardees out of th700 applicants. We heard from one awardee, MattheWalker, who works primarily in ancient philosophy. new Public Fellows program will be placing successfapplicants in government work for two years, beginninin September 2011; public folklorists please take note

ACLS is nancially healthy, though no one denies through times lie ahead for us all. President Pauline Y

spoke of the decline of public nance in Washington: thbudget for the National Endowment for the Humanitiehas been cut in favor of the National SciencFoundation. Thus Washington re-enacts its anciesubservience to science, as if (said President Yu) thhumanities were not research enterprises, as if they dnot produce new knowledge of national usefulness animportance, and as if no one has learned from the 198report The Humanities in American Life. She noted thtendency to view higher education as a private gooand an investment in the work force, instead of thpublic imperative that it rightfully is.

The always enlightening discussion with ACLFellows this year brought onstage (along with MattheWalker) Rebecca E. Keegan, who is investigating thconnection between the idea of Africa and authentic(that favorite subject of ours) in the work of artist LoMailou Jones, and Mary Flanagan, who directs thTiltfactor game research laboratory at DartmouCollege. Her project Metadata is an open sourcinternet-based computer game system for augmentinaccess to archival records; its relation to other studieof gaming is relevant to folklore studies, and the gamthemselves are riveting. As before, this years luncheospeaker was James (Jim) Leach, chair of the NationEndowment for the Humanities, whose warming anhumanizing perspective on Washington life was vewelcome. The afternoon session focused on GlobPerspectives on U. S. Higher Education. Chaireby Thomas Bender, professor of history at New YoUniversity, it featured Lisa Anderson, president of th


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American University in Cairo; Peter Lange, professorof political science at Duke; and the authoritativelyimpressive John Sexton, president and professor oflaw at New York University.

For many delegates, the high point of ACLS meetingsis the annual Charles Homer Haskins Award Lecture,always titled A Life of Learning and presented by asenior scholar. For the eld of folklore studies and yourdelegate, the choice of lecturer this year was a majorachievement in recognition. Active encouragementfrom our Executive Director, Tim Lloyd, and fromme when I was on the Executive Committee of theDelegates, effected the choice of Henry Glassie.When Henrys colleagues and students imagine whathis presentation in Washington must have been like,they are wrong: he didnt show a single slide. Instead,from his deep and tender heart came the narrative of

his learning, his teachers, and his conception of thebreadth of the study of folklore--a point that will not havebeen lost on members of other disciplines. Predictablyhe was received with great, great acclaim. The lecturehas been placed on theACLS website in video and inPDF for you and others to see or read. More than ever,I was grateful this year to be your delegate to ACLS.Our membership there reminds folklorists that amongour multifarious activities, we are a scholarly societythat continually traverses disciplinary boundaries andopens possibilities for other scholars.

Lee Haring, DelegateBrooklyn College, emeritus

National Recording Preservation Board

The National Recording Preservation Act, passed byCongress in 2000, established the National RecordingPreservation Board. The Librarian of Congress appointsboard members as mandated by the legislation, and,by law, AFS has a seat on the board, along with theSociety for Ethnomusicology. The board is chargedwith heightening public awareness of the cultural,historical, aesthetic, and technical signicance ofsound recordings, with particular attention to the needfor preservation and access. It has commissioneda number of reports, most recently The State ofRecorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A

National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Agereleasedin August 2010 and available, with the NRPBs otherreports, online at the website of the Council on Library

and Information Resources (clir.org). I urge folkloriswho work with sound recordings to have a look at threport and the other NRPB publications.

As a means of increasing public awareness of thematters, the Board creates an annual NationRecording Registry, a list of signicant sounrecordings, highlighting preservation issues. As the AFdelegate, Ive worked to ensure that eld recordingand other sound recordings of interest to folklorisbe included every year. Now the plea: I want to urgcolleagues to contact me with recommendations frecordingsarchival, commercial, and otherwisespecial signicance to our work. Ive issued requesbefore, and I cant say that Ive been overwhelmed the response from the eld. But this is one importaway to highlight the importance of our work, and yoinvolvement is crucial.

Since my last report, the board has met once, wanother meeting scheduled for late in November 201Board membership has shifted considerably; thoriginal members terms all ended, and the Librariaof Congress, who is charged with creating the boarreappointed some of us and made a number of neappointments.

For more information, including criteria for nominatioto the annual Registry, please see http://www.loc.gorr/record/nrpb/nrpb-home.html or contact me direc([email protected]).

Burt Feintuch, DelegateUniversity of New Hampshire

World Intellectual Property Organization

In 2011 I attended four WIPO meetings on behalf of thAmerican Folklore Society:

In December 2010, the 17th session of t

Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) on IntellectuProperty and Genetic Resources, TraditionKnowledge, and Folklore at the World IntellectuProperty Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerlan

An Informal Session by conference call on the Protectioof Traditional Cultural Expressions in late March 2011

In May, the 18th IGC session on Intellectual Properand Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, aFolklore at WIPO in Geneva.

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In July, the 19th IGC session on Intellectual Propertyand Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, andFolklore at WIPO in Geneva.

The 17th session of the IGC arrived fresh on the heelsof the First Intersessional Working Group in July 2010,where a deliberate and intensive effort was made topare down and edit language within the TraditionalCultural Expressions/Expressions of Folklore draft. Asseems the custom, however, for every edit there are tennew additions and, despite appeals of the chair, withina short two days the TCE/EoFdraft grew considerably.So much so, in fact, that the chair scheduled an informaldrafting group night session to whittle back down whatwas recently added.

Two items of signicance occurred at the night session.First, the clunky term Traditional Cultural Expressions/Expressions of Folklore was simplied to a moremanageable Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs).Second, a clause added to Article 5, Exceptions andLimitations, that would have allowed continued accessto TCEs for the purpose of non-commercial academicresearch, was not supported by the delegate from theUnited States. (A condition of the night session is thatany addition inserted during the plenary session, byeither a Member State or NGO, must be supported by aMember State to remain a part of the draft.) In the blinkof an eye, responsible ethnographic work was once

again at risk of possible overprotective TCE programs.

At the end of March and with little over a monthbefore the 18th IGC in May, an informal meeting wasarranged by the head of the US delegation to discussthe protection of TCEs with like-minded allies from bothNGOs and academia within the United States. Fromthe Library Copyright Alliance to Knowledge EcologyInternational, from the Electronic Frontier Foundationto the American University College of Law, there wereno shortage of opinions and strong feelings about the

working draft version of TCE protection. As far as AFSis concerned, the language in Article 5 about accessto and protection of responsible ethnographic workremained intact and a part of the draft. In addition, therewas an agreement among the participants to rene andfurther dene this important exception including thesame head of the US delegation who failed to supportthe language the rst time around. Hope prevailed justin time for the 18th IGC.

As many issues that folklorists and other cultuethnographers might have with language and usof terms within the IGC text, the only red ag left wave is found in Article 5, Exceptions and Limitationsand specically in paragraph 4. After a healthy rounof support to ensure responsible access and limoverprotection of TCEs during the informal meeting

March, the head of the US delegation pledged his owsupport for Article 5, paragraph 4. So it was that by thtime the 18th IGC rolled around mid-May all languagthat stood a chance of deletion was returned to thdraft. For the time being the issues that most concethe American Folklore Society remained clear and xewithin the text.

During the 18thsession, a large part of the weeks debacentered on the Traditional Knowledge (TK) aspect the IGC draft. In terms of the American Folklore Socie

the TK document does not appear to include languagthat would exclude folklorists or other ethnographefrom their work. Instead, the debates surrounding thTK document are more philosophical than concretwhich makes for fascinating discussions but leavit problematic as a legal text. As a folklorist, I am suncertain as to how TK is dened apart from TCEDuring the week several of the delegations expressetheir own confusion about the differences between Tand TCEs, noted the similarities in denitions and ideaand wondered what purpose is served by separatin

the two. These questions might seem more relevantthe IGC was not into its tenth year of deliberations.

Tensions abounded during the 18th session. Halfwthrough the week delegates from nearly eveindigenous group registered a formal complaint againthe Member States for unfair and unequal treatmenfor denying the indigenous delegates access anownership of their ancestral TK and TCEs, and for thsubsequently being treated as mere representativof folklore. As expected, implicated Member Stat

simply rolled their eyes at yet another round complaints about the rich neighbors in the NorthHowever, when the statement by the indigenogroups was supported by Member States includinVenezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala, the chawas forced to listen.

At issue was the process of deliberations and rulof proceedings, specically the rule that dictates th



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automatic deletion of language added by delegates butnot supported by Member Statesthe same blink of aneye process that eliminated text relevant and crucial tothe AFS. Points were made, the complaint formalized,and the United States proposed to reinstate all deletedtext by Member States only. This was supported byCanada and, thus, made ofcial. Somehow, though,

the sleight of hand was not noticed by the indigenousgroups whose additions not supported by MemberStates remain deleted.

Tensions remained high throughout the week andexpectations were that they would remain high asthe calendar moved toward July and the 19th sessionof the IGC. The cause for tensions? At some level,presumably, uncertainty. Two months after the 19thICG the WIPO General Assembly was scheduledand expected to take important decisions on the

future of the IGCs work. The IGC was running on aten-year mandate and produced lengthy but far fromcomplete documents. Under consideration at theGeneral Assembly, then, would be whether to renewthe mandate, scrap the IGC, or something in between.With the pressure to submit to the General Assemblyproof of substantive text-based progress, the Chairproposed to identify key outstanding issues and focusthe negotiations on those issues. In essence, theemphasis throughout the 19th session was to streamlineand edit rather than add new text.

During TCE discussions, Peggy Bulger, acting astemporary head of the US delegation in the absenceof Justin Hughes, proposed an alternative to Article 5,paragraph 4. Her proposal follows in italics:

4. Regardless of whether such acts are alreadypermitted under paragraph 2 or not, the followingacts should be permitted: The use of TCEsin libraries, museums, archives, and cultural

institutions, including for purposes of preservation,

display, research, and presentation.

This focused and edited version improves on theprevious version in that it includes aspects ofpreservation, display, research, and presentationcrucial to the work of ethnographers and not mentionedspecically in the prior form. The alternative wassupported by Australia and Canada which, as Iunderstand the proceedings, means the changebecomes permanent.

Kim Connolly-Stone, head of New Zealands delegatioand elected Facilitator of the TCEdocument, callea nal informal meeting to assess key issues anattempt to consolidate the text. Both Valdimar Hafstedelegate to the Societ Internationale dEthnologet de Folklore (SIEF), and I attended the meetinand submitted our written support for Peggy Bulge

alternative proposal. As of this writing I have not seennew version of the TCEdocument.

In September, without much surprise, the WIPGeneral Assembly decided to renew the mandate the IGC for the 2012-2013 biennium. Under the termof the General Assembly the IGC will push to reaan agreement on a text(s) of an international leginstrument(s) which will ensure the effective protectioof GRs, TK and TCEs. Also,

[t]he Committee is requested to submit to the 20General Assembly the text(s) of an internationlegal instrument(s) which will ensure the effectivprotection of GRs, TK and TCEs. The Gene

Assembly in 2012 will take stock of and considthe text(s), progress made and decide on convenina Diplomatic Conference, and will consider thneed for additional meetings, taking account of thbudgetary process.

For 2012, the three IGCs to take place will eacaddress a single aspect of the document, wdeliberations on TCEs scheduled for July. According the WIPO website, the 22nd IGC in July will focus ofour key articles: Subject Matter of Protection (Artic1), Beneciaries (Article 2), Scope of Protectio(Article 3), and Limitations and Exceptions (Article 5Peggy Bulger is set to retire from her position at th

American Folklife Center at the end of 2011 whichassume, means at least a temporary unlled chaon the US delegation, a seat that for ten years halooked after the interests of folklorists, anthropologist

and other ethnographers. Though difcult to imaginif events at the 2012 IGCs proceed at the breaknespeed theyre planned, it will be necessary for AFS, awell as other cultural NGOs, to maintain some sort representative presence.

Steven Hatcher, DelegateGeneva, Switzerland



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Acknowledgments

In AppreciationThe Executive Board and staff of AFS are grateful for the belief and support of our partners and contributors.

TheAFS Endowment Fund uses the income from long-term gifts and pledges to support AFSs future activitieTheAFS Sustainers Fund offers contributors the opportunity to support AFSs present activities directly.

We welcome your contributions to both of these funds at any time. To discuss a long-term gift or pledge to thEndowment Fund, please contactAFS Executive DirectorTimothy Lloyd.

AFS Endowment Fund Contributors

Roger D. AbrahamsJane BeckJan and Judy BrunvandPeggy BulgerWilliam M. ClementsJohn DorstDiane GoldsteinJoseph GoodwinLee HaringJoyce A. Ice

Bill IveyMichael Owen JonesRosan Jordan and Frank de CaroBarbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettElaine Lawless and Sandy RikoonBarbara and Timothy LloydJudith McCullohWolfgang and Barbara MiederPatrick B. MullenDorothy Noyes

Elliott OringMaida OwensJo RadnerSusan RoachPolly StewartElaine ThatcherKay TurnerPatricia A. TurnerMargaret R.YocomSteve ZeitlinRosemary Lvy Zumwalt and Isaac Jack Lvy

2011 Sustainers Fund Contributors

Mary Katherine AldinRobert BaronIna C. BeckEllis BoalPaddy Baker BowmanSimon J. BronnerPeggy BulgerLorraine and Ray CashmanLuisa Del GuidiceKurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell

James R. DowElaine EffSusan EleuterioHasan El-ShamyMichael R. EvansBill and Marcie FerrisMarcia GaudetDiane E. GoldsteinNancy GroceLee Haring

Jo Farb HernandezJoseph HickersonWilliam Ivey

Alan A. and Karen S. JabbourJason Baird JacksonJeanne Harrah JohnsonRosan Jordan and Frank de CaroJames P. LearyBarbara and Timothy LloydWolfgang MiederStephen Mitchell
http://www.afsnet.org/donations/http://www.afsnet.org/donations/http://www.afsnet.org/donations/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.afsnet.org/donations/http://www.afsnet.org/donations/


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Tom MouldJustin NolanDorothy NoyesVirginia M. NoyesLaura Sauer PalmerMichael J. PrestonJohn Price

Frank ProschanAnne PryorJo RadnerTom RankinRachelle SaltzmanCharles H. SeemannDaniel SheehySharon R. Sherman

Amy E. SkillmanWillie SmythGary Stanton

Polly StewartLarry SyndergaardJacqueline S. ThursbyJohn M. VlachThomas U. WalkerMarilyn M. WhiteJohn R. WilliamsZora ZimmermanJuwen Zhangand one anonymous donor

In addition, the following partners helped to supportAFSs activities during 2011:

AFS SectionsAmerican Council of Learned SocietiesAmerican Folklife Center, Library of CongressAmerican Folklore Society Executive BoardAssociation of African and African American

FolkloristsCenter for Folklore Studies, The Ohio State

University

China Folklore SocietyDepartment of Folklore and Ethnomusicology,

Indiana UniversityFellows of the American Folklore SocietyThe Folklore Society of JapanThe Hoosier Folklore Society

INAH: Institutio Nacional de Antropologa e HistorLocal Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts

in EducationThe Henry Luce FoundationMershon Center for International Security Studies

The Ohio State UniversityNational Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the HumanitiesPACT: Preserving Americas Cultural TraditionsSchool of Journalism, Indiana UniversityThe Society for EthnomusicologyThe Teagle FoundationTraditional Arts IndianaVeterans History Project, American Folklife Cente

Publications

Journal of American Folklore

Editors

Thomas A. DuBois, University of WisconsinJames P. Leary, University of Wisconsin

Associate Editors

Christine Garlough, University of WisconsinJanet Gilmore, University of WisconsinRichard March, Wisconsin Arts Board, retiredJohn D. Niles, University of Wisconsin

Ruth Olson, University of WisconsinAnne Pryor, Wisconsin Arts Board

Editorial Assistants

Jillian Jacklin, University of WisconsinHilary Virtanen, University of Wisconsin

Editorial Board

Robert Baron, New York State Council on the ArtsOlivia Cadaval, Smithsonian InstitutionMetin Ekici, Ege UniversityPauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg

Elissa R. Henken, University of GeorgiaFrank Korom, Boston UniversityKristin Kuutma, University of TartuJonathan Roper, University of TartuTimothy R. Tangherlini, University of California,

Los Angeles



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Review Editors

BookGregory Hansen, Arkansas State UniversityCarolyn Ware, Louisiana State University

Exhibit and EventLisa L. Higgins, Missouri Folk Arts Program

Film and VideoGuha Shankar, American Folklife Center

Sound RecordingWillie Smyth, Washington State Arts Commission

WebsiteNicole Saylor, University of Iowa Library

AFSnet.org

EditorLorraine Walsh Cashman, American Folklore Society

AFS Review

Editor

John Laudun, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Editorial Board

Susan Eleuterio, Company of Folk

Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana UniversityDebora Kodish, Philadelphia Folklore ProjectDorothy Noyes, The Ohio State UniversityGuha Shankar, American Folklife CenterRory Turner, Goucher College

Open Folklore

Project Team

Julianne Bobay, Indiana University Libraries

Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana UniversityJennifer Laherty, Indiana University LibrariesTimothy Lloyd, American Folklore SocietyMoira Marsh, Indiana University LibrariesSherri Michaels, Indiana University LibrariesGarret Montanez, Indiana University Libraries

AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus

Editorial Committee

Catherine H. Kerst, American Folklife CenterMargaret Kruesi, American Folklife CenterMichael Taft, American Folklife Center

Childrens Folklore Review

Editor

Elizabeth Tucker, Binghamton University

Digest

Editors

Michael Lange, Champlain CollegeDiane Tye, Memorial University of Newfoundland

The Folklore and Education Section Newsletter

Editors

Gregory Hansen, Arkansas State UniversityRosemary Hathaway, West Virginia University


Editor

Jill Terry Rudy, Brigham Young University


Editor

Simon J. Bronner, Pennsylvania State University


Editor

Trevor Blank, Pennsylvania State University

Public Programs Bulletin

Editor

Timothy H. Evans, Western Kentucky University



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Standing Committees

Cultural Diversity Committee

Chair

Marilyn M. White, Kean University, retired

Members

Katherine Borland, The Ohio State UniversityOlivia Cadaval, Smithsonian InstitutionXochitl Chavez, University of California,

Santa CruzNorma E. Cant, University of Texas,

San AntonioDebora Kodish, Philadelphia Folklore ProjectEnrique Lamadrid, University of New Mexico,Albuquerque

Rebecca Morse, Independent, Fairbanks, AlaskaSolimar Otero, Louisiana State University,

Baton RougeGuillermo de los Reyes, University of HoustonJan Rosenberg, Heritage Education ResourcesCynthia L. Vidaurri, Smithsonian Institution


Chair

Margaret R. Yocom, George Mason University

MembersRay Cashman, The Ohio State UniversityTimothy H. Evans, Western Kentucky UniversityLisa Gabbert, Utah State UniversityRuth Olson, University of WisconsinPatricia Sawin, University of North CarolinaDaniel Wojcik, University of Oregon


Chair

Suzanne K. Seriff, University of Texas, Austin

Members

Christina Barr, Nevada HumanitiesAmy E. Skillman, Independent, Harrisburg,

PennsylvaniaStephen D. Winick, American Folklife Center

Publications Committee

Chair

Judith McCulloh, University of Illinois

Members

Erika Brady, Western Kentucky UniversityAnn Hoog, American Folklife Center

Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife CenterJohn Laudun, University of Louisiana, LafayetteMoira Marsh, Indiana University

Ad Hoc Committees/Working Groups


Chair

Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, emeritus

MembersMaria Teresa Agozzino, Independent, Stornoway,

United KingdomMark Bender, The Ohio State UniversityJoAnn Conrad, Berkeley City CollegeMerrill Kaplan, The Ohio State UniversityPeter Jan Margry, Meertens InstituteDorothy Noyes, The Ohio State UniversityTimothy Tangherlini, University of California,

Los Angeles

Tok F. Thompson, University of Southern Californi

Communications in Folklore Working Group

Coordinator

Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana University

Members

Harris M. Berger, Texas A&M UniversityGiovanna P. Del Negro, Texas A&M UniversityC. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University

John Miles Foley, University of MissouriBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York UniversiJohn Laudun, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Amber Ridington, Independent, Vancouver,British Columbia

Dorothy Noyes, The Ohio State UniversitySteven Zeitlin, City Lore



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Folklore and Historic Preservation Policy

Working Group

Coordinators

Laurie Sommers, Independent, Okemos, MichiganMichael Ann Williams, Western Kentucky University

Members

Jill Breit, Traditional Arts in Upstate New YorkThomas Carter, University of UtahNancy Solomon, Long Island TraditionsJohn M. Vlach, George Washington UniversitySteven Zeitlin, City Lore

Media and Public Information Committee

Chair

Elliott Oring, California State University,Los Angeles

Members

Michael R. Evans, Indiana UniversityRussell Frank, Pennsylvania State UniversityTom Mould, Elon University

Delegates and Liasons

American Council of Learned Societies

Delegate

Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, emeritus

National Humanities Alliance

Representative


National Recordings Preservation Board

Representative

Burt Feintuch, University of New Hampshire

UNESCO

Representative


World Intellectual Property Organization

Representatives

Steven Hatcher, Independent, Geneva, SwitzerlanJ. Sandy Rikoon, University of Missouri

American Folklore Society Archives

Liaison

Randy Williams, Utah State University

Oral History Association

Liaison

Elaine Eff, Independent, Cantonsville, Maryland

Modern Language Association

Liaison

Camilla Mortensen, Independent, Eugene, Orego

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Liaison

Margaret R. Yocom, George Mason University

AFS Executive Board

President

C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University

President-Elect

Diane Goldstein, Indiana University

Board Members

Ray Cashman, The Ohio State UniversityLisa Gabbert, Utah State UniversityJason Baird Jackson, Indiana University

Sabina Magliocco, California State University,Northridge

Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini CollegeRachelle Saltzman, Iowa Arts Council

Amy Shuman, The Ohio State UniversityAmy E. Skillman, Independent,

Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaWilliam Westerman, Princeton UniversityMarilyn M. White, Kean University, retired



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Section Conveners

African Folklore

Johnston A.K. Njoku, Western Kentucky University

Archives and Libraries

Randy Williams, Utah State University

British Folk StudiesThomas A. McKean, University of AberdeenStephanie Smith, Smithsonian Institution

Chicano and Chicana Folklore

Rachel V. Gonzalez, Indiana University

Childrens Folklore

Spencer Green, Pennsylvania State University,Harrisburg

Dance and Movement Analysis

Nadia D. De Leon, Western Kentucky University

Eastern Asia Folklife

Jessica A. Turner, Indiana UniversityZiying You, The Ohio State University

Folk Arts and Material Culture

Martha Sims, The Ohio State University

Folk Belief and Religious Folklife

Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini CollegeMargaret Kruesi, American Folklife Center

Folklore and Creative Writing

Darcy E. Holtgrave, University of Missouri

Folklore and Education

Lisa L. Higgins, Missouri Folk Arts ProgramLisa Rathje, Independent, Oak Park, Illinois

Folklore and Literature

David A. Allred, Snow College

Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, y Caribeo

Nadia D. De Leon, Western Kentucky UniversityMintzi Martinez-Rivera, Indiana University

Folklore and Oral History

Kathryn Wilson, Georgia State University

Folk Narrative

Linda J. Lee, University of PennsylvaniaAdam D. Zolkover, Indiana University

Foodways

Eve Jochnowitz, New York UniversityLuAnne K. Roth, University of Missouri

Graduate StudentsMatthew Hale, Indiana UniversityKatrina S. Wynn, Western Kentucky University

History and Folklore

Simon J. Bronner, Pennsylvania State University,Harrisburg

Independent Folklorists

L. Dyann Arthur, MusicBox ProjectAmber Ridington, Independent, Vancouver,

British ColumbiaJewish Folklore and Ethnology

Simon J. Bronner, Pennsylvania State University,Harrisburg

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer and Allies

Eileen Condon, New York Folklore Society

Medieval Folklore

Katie L. Peebles, Marymount University

Mediterranean StudiesLuisa Del Giudice, Independent, Los Angeles,California

Sabina Magliocco, California State University,Northridge

Music and Song

Stephen D. Winick,

American 2011 Annual Report Folklore Society

Documents

Transcript of American 2011 Annual Report Folklore Society