Box 42
Contains 27 Results:
Anderegg, Michelle
"Folksongs"; Oral Tradition--words of songs the author's family treasured for several generations.
Aagaard, Kevin
"Spiritual Warriorship: The Teachings of an Arapaho Pipe--Carrier"; Customary--the ritual of becoming a warrior; Material Culture--use of sweat lodge and pipe; Southern Utah.
Aoyagi, Jennifer
"Clerk Narratives"; Oral Tradition--department store clerk terminology, inconsiderate customer stories; Human Condition--occupational: relationships of clerks with one another, management, customers; Salt Lake City, Utah (1 cassette).
Barlow, Jill
"An Analysis of the Personal Narratives of Abraham Marion Bergeson"; Human Condition--personal narratives of Bergeson in which he relates military experiences of World Wars I and II, Mormon missionary experiences, and mining and agricultural experiences in Utah; Bountiful, Utah (2 cassettes).
Blackerby, Marci
"Fortune Telling in Two Cultures"; Customary--card reading from Wales and coffee grounds reading from America; (Informants in) Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bull, Fred William
"Practical Jokes As Folklore"; Oral Tradition--jokes; Customary--pranks; Salt Lake City, Utah.
DeYoung, Dawn
"Folklore of Mormon Missionaries"; Oral Tradition--pranks, stories; Human Condition--daily frustrations, experiences; Salt Lake City, Utah (2 cassettes).
Dudman, Darcia
"Occupational Folklore of Railroad Employees in Ogden, Utah"; Oral Tradition--glossary; Customary--beliefs, pranks, signals; Material Culture--railroaders' clothing; Human Condition--railroad employees; Ogden, Utah.
Enderton, Rochelle
"The Role of Women in the teaching of ritual beliefs in a Greek home"; Material Culture--Greek goods, preparation; Customary--foodways, festivals; Human Condition--second generation Greeks in America and a convert to Greek religion in America; (Informants in) Salt Lake City, Utah (1 cassette).
England, Janell
"The Slumber Party: A Folk Event for Teen Women"; Oral Tradition--storytelling; Customary Behavior--games, pranks, atmosphere; Material Culture--snack food, must be finger food; Salt Lake City, Utah (2 cassettes).
Ford, Christine
"Superstition and Folk Belief"; Oral Tradition--informant's manner of telling stories, advising; Customary--beliefs as silverware dropped means company is coming, foretelling death, good luck-bad luck; (Informant in) Salt Lake City, Utah (2 cassettes).
Foss, Deborah
"Jody Foss--Folk Heroine"; Human Condition--family stories and impressions Author's sister is an inspiration in free-living to her family; (Informants in) California.
Fuller, Eric G.
"Ramp Rat"; Oral Tradition--terminology and definitions used by airline baggage employees; Customary--pranks; Human Condition--airport occupational lore; Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gasperini, Joy
"Personal Narratives--Thrift and Secondhand Shopping"; Human Condition--how financial necessity developed into a family tradition of thrift shopping. Experiences, techniques. Personal traits which mean success; Salt Lake City, Utah and Washington D.C. (2 cassettes).
Gold, DeAnn R.
"Graveyards and Headstones"; Material Culture--headstones, carvings; Customary--superstitions, beliefs, ceremony, symbolic meanings; Oral Tradition--inscriptions, symbols, epitaphs; Park City, Helper, Vernal, and Roosevelt, Utah (21 slides).
Grimaila, Patricia L.
"Greek Wedding Rituals"; Customary--the ceremony, beliefs, dance; Material Culture--the rings, crowns, almonds; Oral Tradition--hymns chanted, prayers, names; (Interview in) Sandy, Utah (1 cassette).
Hopkins, Ann
"Marriage in Japan--Pre-Arrangement and Ceremony"; Human Condition--marriage arrangements in Japan, past and present; Customary--ceremony, formalities; (Interview in) Salt Lake City, Utah (1 cassette, also includes holidays).
Miller, Erika
"The Value of Graffiti"; A discussion of private (as opposed to exterior public) graffiti in bathrooms on the University of Utah campus; Salt Lake City, Utah.
Moulton, Tina M.
"The Traditional Performer"; Human Condition--occupation: knife sharpener. Informant learned his skill as an apprentice in Germany. He has his shop in a van which he drives to clients in order to sharpen tools; Oral Tradition--jokes; Customary--European (German) way of conducting business; Material Culture--built own machinery, wears traditional hat of his craft; Salt Lake City, Utah (slides).
Pimentel, Ursula
"Dynamic Variation in the Folk Art of Tatting"; Material Culture--tatting and note cards. As a young girl the informant learned tatting from a neighbor; Logan, Utah (photos, tatting samples).