Articles

Foreword: Lessons of Work and Workers, Western Folklore (2006)

McCarl discusses, primarily through his own personal experiences, how the oppositional techniques of cultural work...

 

Shoshone-Paiute “Pakkiata” in the Great Basin, Idaho Issues Online (2004)

Ranching is a rich part of Shoshone-Paiute culture and tradition, yet the tribes' contributions to...

 

Books

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Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura, Faculty Authored Books (2003)

The essays are written in partial fulfillment of a "Model Initiatives" grant to the IHC...

 

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The District of Columbia Fire Fighters' Project: A Case Study in Occupational Folklife (1985)
 

Contributions to Books

Confluence of Rivers: The Indigenous Tribes of Idaho (with Rodney Frey), Idaho’s Place: Rethinking the Gem State’s Past (Forthcoming) (2012)
 

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Black Butte Jump, Forged in Fire: Essays by Idaho Writers (2005)

Instead of wearing peace signs or shoulder-length hair and making a pilgrimage to Haight Ashbury,...

 

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Eva Castellanoz: "A Healing...It Just Comes Your Way, Unless You Say No" (with Eva Castellanoz), Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura (2003)

Eva Castellanoz is a curandera -- a healer-- who has raised ten children, labored as...

 

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Visible Landscapes/Invisible People: Negotiating the Power of Representation in a Mining Community, Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself (2000)

On May 26 1996, two demolitions experts from Morrison-Knudsen set charges under the gigantic stacks...

 

Presentations

Lana Turner, Cold Toads, Why Cedars Need Cottonwoods, Stoplights a Mile Underground and that Damn Superfund!: Pedaling Idaho’s Silver Valley in Search of the Resource Commons, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (2010)
 

Documenting the Culture of Work: Occupational Folklore in the 21st Century (with Nancy Groce, Peggy Bulger, Betsy Peterson, Nicholas R. Spitzer, and Steve Zeitlin), American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (2010)

This forum highlights the state of occupational folklore research in 2010. It features updates on...