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Article
Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Folklore Studies
CUR Quarterly
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2010
Disciplines
Abstract
Cookie traditions? Family reunions? Snipe hunting? Jell-O recipes in Utah? Undergraduates’ folklore research projects cover an amazing variety of offbeat subjects. These topics may seem superficially unimportant to many scholars in other fields, and they usually are overlooked in the serious halls of academe (although undergraduate research in folklore often finds its way into professional books and publications as scholars use materials deposited in folklore archives, a recent example of which is Elizabeth Tucker’s 2007 book Haunted Halls).
Citation Information
Gabbert, Lisa. “Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Folklore Studies.” CUR Quarterly, 30/4 (2010):37–42.
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