Theorizing Folklore from the Margins : : Critical and Ethical Approaches.

• Superior document: Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ser.
• Author: Otero, Solimar.
• TeilnehmendeR: Martínez-Rivera, Mintzi Auanda.; González-Martin, Rachel V.; Wolf, Juan Eduardo.; Melton-Villanueva, Miriam.; Bock, Sheila.; Dass, Rhonda R.; Tidiane Lo, Cheikh.; Borland, Katherine.; Garcia, Itzel Guadalupe.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)

By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Critical Paths -- Introduction: How Does Folklore Find Its Voice in the Twenty-First Century? An Offering/Invitation from the Margins / Solimar Otero and Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera -- 1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies / Rachel V. González-Martin -- 2. Un Tumbe Ch'ixi: Incorporating Afro-Descendant Ideas into an Andean Anticolonial Methodology / Juan Eduardo Wolf -- 3. Disrupting the Archive / Miriam Melton-Villanueva and Sheila Bock -- Part II. Framing the Narrative -- 4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Representation: Interstices and Antiauthenticity / Solimar Otero -- 5. Behaving like Relatives: Or, We Don't Sit Around and Talk Politics with Strangers / Rhonda R. Dass -- 6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry / Cheikh Tidiane Lo -- 7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of "Group" from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective / Katherine Borland -- 8. movimiento armado / armed movement / Itzel Guadalupe Garcia -- Part III. Visualizing the Present -- 9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba / Mabel Cuesta -- 10. "¿Batata? ¡Batata!": Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversity / Gloria M. Colom Braña -- 11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic:Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in LucumíReligion / Martin A. Tsang -- 12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian Vodou / Alexander Fernández -- Part IV. Placing Community -- 13. "No One Would Believe Us": An Autoethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict Zone / Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera.

14. "La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition on a University Campus / Xóchitl Chávez -- 15. Hidden Thoughts and Exposed Bodies: Art, Everyday Life, and Queering Cuban Masculinities / Cory W. Thorne -- 16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness and Disability through My Child / Phyllis M. May-Machunda -- Index.