The Individual and Tradition

Introduction: The Individual and Tradition
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla

Entering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley Potter
Charles G. Zug

Delight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' Art
Marjorie Hunt

The "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
Richard Bauman

Chief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All Times
Philip M. Peek

Place Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First Century
Maggie Holtzberg

A Backdoor into Performance
Tom Mould

The Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Björklöf and Swedish Folk Costume
Pravina Shukla

The World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, Japan
Takashi Takahara

Bringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at Acoma
Karen M. Duffy

Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country
Michael Robert Evans

Navigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the Material
Greg Kelley

Fluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale History
Jennifer Schacker

Counting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious Boat
John Laudun

On Middle-Range Structures in Heroic Epic
William Hansen

The Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrath
Ray Cashman

Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public
John Holmes McDowell

David Drake: Potter, Poet, Rebel
John Michael Vlach

The Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish Lullabies
Ilhan Başgöz

Contested Performance and Joke Aesthetics
Elliott Oring

Vernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, Three
Gregory Hansen

Georgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His Work
John A. Burrison

Rapid Transportation
Lee Haring

Working Through Tradition: Rug Farming In Anatolia
George Jevremović

A Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina Pottery
Mark Hewitt

That's Where I Came In: Henry and His Teachers
Robert Cochran

At the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and Tradition
Vincent Woods

A Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the Field
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla

Acknowledgments

Tabula Gratulatoria

Contributors

Index