Now available for the first time in paperback, Discovering American Folklife is a classic sampling of Don Yoder's massive body of work in Folklife studies. The essays cover folk religion, folk medicine, sectarian costume, traditional cookery, and the Folklife of the Pennsylvania Dutch, specifically Harvest Home, witch tales, Fraktur, and sauerkraut for New Year's.
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"The breadth and depth of Don Yoder's 50-plus years of contributions to the study of folklife is impressive and inspiring . . . This collection will whet our appetites and make us want more." -James C. Moss, Journal of American Folklore
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Don Yoder was cofounder of the Pennsylvania Folklife Society, longtime editor of its journal Pennsylvania Folklife, and Professor of Folklife Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1996. He currently resides in Devon, Pennsylvania, and is the acclaimed author of countless works on Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture, including Pennsylvania Spirituals and Hex Signs (0-8117-2799-8).
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Professor Don Yoder has produced the consumate authority on all things Pennsylvania German. If you don't know who they are, here you will learn. If you don't know their food, their dress, their customs, their architecture; their folk religion and folk crafts, here you will learn. Everyone with the slightest interest in this culture must have this book. It will never lose its existential importance.
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The folklife studies movement is a twentieth-century addition to scholarship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harvest sermon, outdoor bakeoven, folklife research, folklife studies movement, sectarian costumes, folk hymnody, folklife society, religious folk music, plain sects, regional ethnology, harvest meeting, costume research, plain costume, traditional cookery, folk religiosity, religious folk art, material folk culture, costume elements, folk religion, harvest home, rye straw, folklore research, folk level, folk medicine, folk life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pennsylvania German, United States, New York, Central Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch, New England, Eastern Pennsylvania, Mountain Mary, Civil War, British Isles, Don Yoder, North Carolina, Richard Weiss, Middle Ages, Old Order, Adams County, George Pullen Jackson, Berks County, Ethnologia Europaea, Frank Eckert, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Lancaster County, University of Pennsylvania, Dutch Country, Folklore Research New!
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The folklife studies movement is a twentieth-century addition to scholarship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harvest sermon, outdoor bakeoven, folklife research, folklife studies movement, sectarian costumes, folk hymnody, folklife society, religious folk music, plain sects, regional ethnology, harvest meeting, costume research, plain costume, traditional cookery, folk religiosity, religious folk art, material folk culture, costume elements, folk religion, harvest home, rye straw, folklore research, folk level, folk medicine, folk life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pennsylvania German, United States, New York, Central Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch, New England, Eastern Pennsylvania, Mountain Mary, Civil War, British Isles, Don Yoder, North Carolina, Richard Weiss, Middle Ages, Old Order, Adams County, George Pullen Jackson, Berks County, Ethnologia Europaea, Frank Eckert, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Lancaster County, University of Pennsylvania, Dutch Country, Folklore Research New!
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- American Folklife by Don Yoder on 6 pages
- Pennsylvania Dutch & Other Essays by Phebe Earle Gibbons on 6 pages
- American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by Richard M. Dorson on 5 pages
- White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands by George Pullen Jackson on page 66, page 173, and page 179
- Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Publications of the American Folklore Society) by Henry Glassie in Front Matter, page 59, and page 192
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- Groundhog Day by Don Yoder in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life by Jack Santino in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landis Valley Museum: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide (Pennsylvania Trail of History Guides) by Elizabeth Johnson on page 42
- Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace by Frank Hoffmann in Back Matter
- Country Scrapple by William Woys Weaver in Back Matter
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