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At American
Folklore Society annual meetings, Polly Stewart and
I moderate a seminar-like forum, "Text and Community."
Note: There will be no Text and Community session at AFS 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky. Visit the Folklore and Creative Writing Section page to see the other activities planned for this conference.
For Quebec City, October 2007, we discussed Julie Cruikshank's new book:
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial
Encounters, & Social Imagination
(University of Washingtion, 2005). Forum participants
presented brief statements, followed by open discussion about this text about folk narrative, environment,
Native storytelling, fieldwork, and more. We advised attendees to read the book beforehand if you can, but to come even if you haven't.
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AFS Folklore and Creative Writing Section, founded in 2005 by
Peggy Yocom and Amy Skillman: our activities, our
listserve, our plans for upcoming AFS meetings, and minutes from
our previous meetings.
Peggy's work with the Association
of Writers and Writing Programs: folklore panels at
AWP conferences.
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The American Folklore Society is an
association of people who communicate knowledge about
folklore throughout the world. Our more than 2,200
members and subscribers are scholars, teachers, and
libraries at colleges and universities; professionals
in arts and cultural organizations; and community
members involved in folklore work. Many of our members
live and work in the U.S., but their interests in
folklore stretch around the world, and we are home
to a large and growing number of international members.
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