Cultural brokerage and the public sector: response to Roger Abrahams

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The public's relationship to folklore during the 1970s is examined, focusing on the author's own personal experience with teaching folklore at the university level. Topics include changes in folklore teaching standards, society's acceptance of public folklore, and impact of cultural and social mobility.

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Response to Charles L. Briggs

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The differences between US and German folklorists' techniques of studying culture are examined. The author analyzes the social meaning of German festivities, and discusses the impact of tradition on folklore.

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Provinces of knowledge; or, can you get out of the only game in town?

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The folklorists' role in German and US societies are examined. Topics include folklorists serving as mediators between the public and government, and public folklore's impact on a nation-state.

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