Below is a selected list of essays in books, magazines, and journals. Many can be found in full-text within on-line databases such as JSTOR, Literature Online, and Project Muse (e.g., Western Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research).

BOOK  CHAPTERS

“Attempted Desecration of the Remu’s Grave and Its Punishment: A Holocaust Belief Legend among Yiddish-Speaking Survivors.” In Masoret Haya: 33 Essays in Folklore in Honor of Professor Haya Bar-Itzhak,  edited by Tsafi Sebba-Elran, Haya Milo, and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, vi-xxii. Haifa: Israel Folktale Archives, University of Haifa, and Pardes Publishing House, 2020.

“The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg.” In Folklore in the United States and Canada: An Institutional History, ed. Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, 48-62. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

“Introduction: Definition, Concepts, and Questions of Folklore and Folklife in a Diverse, Mobile Nation,” “American Folk Buildings, Constructions, and Landscapes,” “Regions, Borders, and Nation in American Folklore and Folklife,” “Schools and Colleges in American Folklore and Folklife,” “Folklore and Folklife of American Organizations and Networks,” “Folklore and Folklife of American LGBTQIA+ Communities and Queer Culture.” In The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 3-37, 367-95, 509-538, 643-668, 888-916. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Rethinking the Song and Dance Celebration” [Par Dziesmu un deju svētkum]. In Dziesmu un deju svētki: Tradīcijas anatomija [The Song and Dance Festival: An Anatomy of a Tradition], ed. Rūta Muktupāvela, 22-29 [English] and 453-457 (Latvian, trans. E. Salipa). Riga: Latvijas Kultūras Akadēmija, 2018.

“A Quantitative Cross-Cultural Analysis of Folk Crafts in Relation to Foreign Aid in Developing Countries.” In Contexts of Folklore: Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos, ed. Wolfgang Mieder and Simon J. Bronner, 179-192. New York: Peter Lang.

“Attempted Desecration of the Remu’s Grave and Its Punishment: A Holocaust Belief Legend among Yiddish-Speaking Survivors.” In Massoret Haya: Living Tradition, ed. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, Haya Milo, and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg. Haifa: Pardes, 2019.

“Telling Jokes: Connecting and Separating Jews in Analogue and Digital Culture.” In Connected Jews: Expressions of Community in Analogue and Digital Culture, ed. Simon J. Bronner and Caspar Battegay, 181-214. London: Liverpool University Press, 2018.

  “Amerika-no bunka ni-okeru bouryoku to asobi-no furemu-ka” [Framing Violence and Play in American Culture]. In Vanakyura bunka to gendai shakai/Vernacular Culture and Modern Society, ed. Keiko Wells, 3-31. Japan. Kyoto: Shibunkaku-shuppan, 2018. [In Japanese].

“From Warrior Prince to Religious Prophet: The Mythologization of Alan Dundes.” In Psycho-Cultural Analysis of Folklore, ed. P. Chenna Reddy and M. Sarat Babu, 69-90. Delhi, India: B.R. Publishing, 2018.

“American Folk Museums Redux.” In Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century       Perspectives, ed. Kurt Dewhurst, Patricia Hall, and Charles H. Seemann, Jr., 221-43.   Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

“Folklore and Folklife” and “Popular Culture and Media.” In Pennsylvania Germans: An  Interpretive Encyclopedia, ed. Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, 361-89, 441-68. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

“Folklore in the United States.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, ed. Paula    Rabinowitz. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization of Jewish Folklore Studies.” In Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse, ed. Jeffrey Veidlinger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.

“’Drawing to Represent’: Lewis Miller Redux.” In Lewis Miller’s People, ed. June Burk     Lloyd  and Lila Fourhman-Shaull, 7-10. York, PA: York County Heritage Trust, 2014.

“Psychological Ethnology: Psychoanalysis, Folklore, and Folk Art.” In Whirligigs: The Art of  Peter Gelker by Lynn Gamwell and Simon J. Bronner, 64-84. Fullerton, CA:       Grand  Central Press, 2014.

“The ‘Handiness’ of Tradition.” In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present, ed. Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard, 186-218. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2013.

“The Jewish Joke Online: Framing and Symbolizing Humor in Analog and Digital Culture.” In Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction, ed. Trevor J. Blank, 119-49. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2012.

 “Jewish Naming Ceremonies for Girls-A Study in the Discourse of Tradition.” In Jewish Lifeworlds and Jewish Thought, ed. Nathanael Riemer, 211-20. Wiesbaden,               Germany:  Harrassowitz Publishing House, 2012.

“Ritualizing Jewishness.” In Revisioning Ritual: Jewish Traditions in Transition, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 1-42. Oxford, UK: Littman, 2011.

“‘This is Why We Hunt’: Social-Psychological Meanings of the Traditions and Rituals of Deer Camp.” In Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America, ed. Dennis Cutchins and Eric A. Eliason, 65-104. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010.

“De Economie van Volkscultuur” [The Economics of Folk Culture]. In Splitsen of knopen? Over Volkscultuur in Nederland [Splitting of Knots: On Folk Culture in the Netherlands], ed. Hester Dibbits, Richard Hermans, Jan Jaap Knol, Gitta Luiten, Taco de Neef, and Ineke Strouken, 130-38. Antwerp: Thonik. [in Dutch]

“Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore.” In Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World, ed. Trevor Blank, 21-66. Logan: Utah State Press, 2009.

“The Chutzpah of Jewish Cultural Studies.” In Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 1-26. Oxford: Littman, 2008.

“The Analytics of Alan Dundes.” In The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytic Essays of Alan Dundes, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 1-50. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007.

“‘Heile, Heile, Hinkel Dreck’: On the Earthiness of Pennsylvania German Folk Narratives.” In Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam, ed. Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr., 77-100. Lawrence, Kansas: Society for German-American Studies, 2006.

“Building Tradition: Control and Authority in Vernacular Architecture.” In Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century, ed. Marcel Vellinga and Lindsay Asquith, 23-45. London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2005.

“Plain Folk and Folk Society: John Hostetler’s Legacy of the Little Community.” In Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John Hostetler, ed. David Weaver-Zercher, 55-94. University Park: Penn State Press, 2005.

“Introduction,” “Menfolk,” and “Hidden Erections and Sexual Fabrications: Old Men Crafting Manliness.” In Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 1-60, 274-314. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

“‘Letting Out Jack: Sex and Aggression in Adolescent Male Recitations.” In Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities, ed. Simon J. Bronner, 315-50. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 (with Ronald L. Baker).

“Woodhull’s Old Tyme Masters: A Hillbilly Band in the Northern Tradition.” In Exploring Roots Music , ed. Nolan Porterfield, 127-34. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

“Folklore and Folklife.” In Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth, ed. William Pencak and Randall Miller, pp. 454-76. University Park: Penn State Press, 2002.

“Amerika no Folklore to Folklife: Amerika No Kodomo Tachi No Seikatsu Bunka” [Folklore and Folklife of America: Everyday Life and Culture of American Children]. In Dramatic America, ed. Hisashi Ishida, pp. 175-91. Tokyo: Eihosya, 2002. [translated by Youji Sawari into Japanese]

“Legendary Explanations: The Protection of the Remu Cemetery during the Holocaust.” Markers XIX, ed. Richard E. Meyer, pp. 50-63. Greenfield, Massachusetts: Association for Gravestone Studies, 2002.

“Amerika Ni Okeru Amerika-Kenkyu To Sono Kyoiku-Hoho” [American Studies Pedagogy in the United States].  In Amerika Shin-Kenkyu  [American Studies: A New Perspective], ed. Keijiro Unoki, pp. 330-39. Tokyo: Hokuju-Shuppan, 1997. [In Japanese]

“Material Folk Culture of Children.”  In Children’s Folklore: A Source Book, ed. Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia McMahon, pp. 251-72.  New York: Garland, 1995. Reprinted, Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999.

“‘Your Mother’s Like…’: Formula in Contemporary American Ritual Insults.” In Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words, ed. Reinhold Aman, 166-77. New York: Marlowe, 1996.

“From Nature to Culture and Object to Image: Challenges for the Preservation of the Past for the Future.”  In Conserving Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century, ed. Marilyn Kisly, pp. 15-22.  Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan, 1994.

“Introduction” and “Elaborating Tradition: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Artist Ministers to His Community.”  In Creativity and Tradition in Folklore: New Directions, ed. Simon J. Bronner, pp. 1-40, 277-326.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 1992.

“Cane Making as Symbol and Tradition.”  In American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture, ed. George H. Meyer.  Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Sandringham Press, 1992, pp. 219-21.

“Introduction” and “Reading Consumer Culture.”  In Consuming Visions:  Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920, ed. Simon J. Bronner, pp. 1-53.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1989.

“Object Lessons:  The Work of Ethnological Museums and Collections.”  In Consuming     Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920, ed. Simon J. Bronner, pp. 217-54.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1989.

“Folklife Starts Here:  The Background of Material Culture Scholarship in Pennsylvania.”  In The Old Traditional Way of Life:  Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts, ed. Robert E. Walls & George H. Schoemaker, pp. 230-43.  Bloomington, Indiana:  Trickster Press, 1989.

“Background of the Blues:  Afro-American Folklore.”  In The Blues:  A Bibliographic Guide, ed. Mary L. Hart, Brenda M. Eagles, Lisa N. Howorth, pp. 11-30.  New York:  Garland, 1989.

“Folk Objects.”  In Folk Groups and Folklore Genres, ed. Elliott Oring, pp. 99-124.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 1986.

“The House on Penn Street: Conflict and Creativity in Folk Art” and “Introduction.”  In Folk Art  and Art Worlds, ed. John Michael Vlach and Simon J. Bronner, pp. 123-49, 1-10.  Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

“Visible ProofsÌ: Material Culture Study in American Folkloristics.”  In Material Culture: A Research Guide, ed. Thomas Schlereth, pp. 127-53.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.

“The Idea of the Folk Artifact” and “Researching Material Folk Culture in the Modern American City.”  In American Material Culture and Folklife, pp. 3-39, 221-37.  “Idea of the Folk Artifact” reprinted in Academic and Public History: A Synthesis, ed. Phyllis Leffler.  Melbourne, Florida: Krieger Publishing, 1989.

“Toward a Philosophy of Folk Objects.”  In Personal Places: Perspectives on Informal Art Environments, ed. Daniel Franklin Ward, pp. 171-77.  Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984.

“Folklore in the Bureaucracy.”  In Tools for Management, ed. Frederick Richmond and Kathy Nazar, pp. 45-57.  Harrisburg: PEN Publications, 1984.

“Let Me Tell It My Way: Joketelling by a Father and Son.”  In Humor and the Individual, ed. Elliott Oring, pp. 18-36.  Los Angeles: California Folklore Society, 1984.

“The Paradox of Pride and Loathing, and Other Problems.”  In Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for Research, ed. Michael Owen Jones, Roberta Krell, Bruce Guiliano, pp. 115-24.  Los Angeles: California Folklore Society, 1983.

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

“Nation-Thinking, the State, and the ‘Fruitbearing Field’ of Folklore.” Cultural Analysis 19, no. 2 (2021): 159-65.

“Ready to SOAR: An Americanist Journal.” SOAR: Society of Americanists Review 1 (2018): 3-9.

“The Death of American Studies?” European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 1-26.

“Toward a Definition of Folklore in Practice.” Cultural Analysis 15, no. 1 (2016): 6-27.Translated by Ahmet Erman Aral into Turkish as “Uygulamadaki Folklorun Bir Tanimina Doğru.”  Millî Folklor  29, no. 113 (2017): 93-116. Translated by Lei Cai into Chinese as “Zouziang Shijian Zhong de Minsu Dingyi.” Folklore Studies, Issue 155 (2021): 5-17.

“Halk Nesneleri” [Folk Objects], trans. Süheyla Saritaş, Millî Folklor 28, no. 110 (2016): 125-39 [Turkish].

“Folklora Özgü Bir Zihin Kurami Tanimlamasina Doğru: Geleneğe Yönelik Psikanaliz ve Sembolist Yaklaşimiarin Rolü.” [Toward the Formulation of a Folkloristic Theory of Mind: The Role of Psychoanalysis and Symbolist Approaches to Tradition], trans. Anahtar Kelimeler.  Millî Folklor 27 (2015): 18-30.

“’The Shooter Has Asperger’s’” Autism, Belief, and ‘Wild Child’ Narratives.” Children’s Folklore Review 36 (2014): 35-54.

“Retrospect and Prospect for the Historiography of Folkloristics.” Folklore Historian 31 (2014): 31-42.

“The Proverbial and Psychological Meanings of ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’” Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 31 (2014): 109-32.

“Mike Jenkins (1982-2013): The Life and Death of a Strongman.” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 12-13 (August 2014): 54-66.

“Folklore and Folklife Studies: The Discipline of Analyzing Traditions.” Choice: Current           Reviews for Academic Libraries 50, no. 9 (May 2013): 155-65.

“‘Sort of a Hero’: Jack Fasig and the Strongman Theme in American Legendry.” Contemporary Legend series 3, 2 (2012): 1-26.

“Practice Theory in Folklore and Folklife Studies.” Folklore 123, no. 1 (2012).

“Framing Violence and Play in American Culture.” Journal of Ritsumeikan Social Sciences and Humanities 3 (2011): 145-60.

“The Rise and Fall–and Return–of the Class Rush: A Study of a Contested Tradition.” Western Folklore 70, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 5-67.

“Framing Folklore: An Introduction.” Western Folklore 69, nos. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 2010): 5-27.

“The Problem and Promise of Tradition.” Levend Erfgoed: Vakblad voor public folklore & public history 6, no. 1 (2009): 4-11.

“Fathers and Sons: Rethinking the Bar Mitzvah as an American Rite of Passage.” Children’s Folklore Review 31 (2008-2009): 7-34.

“Hare Coursing and the Ethics of Tradition.” Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies 46 (2008): 7-38.

“Analyzing the Ethnic Self: The Hinkeldreck Theme in Pennsylvania-German Folk Narrative.” Columbia Journal of American Studies, 8, no. 1 (2007): 19-53.

“Folk Logic: Interpretation and Explanation in Folkloristics.” Western Folklore 65, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 401-34.

“The Year of Folklore, and Other Dutch Lessons in Public Heritage.” Volkskunde 107, no. 4 (2006): 343-60 [Dutch summary on pp. 379-81].

“Folklore and the Quest for Meaning.” Levend Erfgoed: Vakblad Voor Public Folklore and Public History     3, no. 2 (2006): 4-8. [English with Dutch Summary]

“Contesting Tradition: The Deep Play and Protest of Pigeon Shoots.” Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 470 (Fall 2005): 409-52.

“‘Gombo’ Folkloristics: Lafcadio Hearn’s Creolization and Hybridization in the Formative Period of Folklore Studies.” Journal of Folklore Research 42, no. 2 (May-December 2005): 141-84.

“Narrating and Racializing Urban Black Folklife in Nineteenth-Century America: Lafcadio Hearn’s Cincinnati Stories.” Folklore Historian 21 (2004): 35-71.

“‘This is Why We Hunt’: Social-Psychological Meanings of the Traditions and  Rituals of Deer Camp.” Western Folklore 63 (2004): 11-50.

“Whither Pennsylvania-German Studies?” Der Reggeboge: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society 38, no. 1 (2004): 3-8.

“The Lieberman Syndrome: Jewishness in American Political Culture.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 2, no. 1 (2003): 35-58.

“Ideas for Inquiry: ‘Exhibiting Children.'” Children’s Folklore Review 25, nos. 1-2 (2002-2003): 101-4.

“Questioning the Future: Polling Americans at the Turn of the New Millennium.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 665-86.

“Folklore Responds to Columbine and Adolescence.” Children’s Folklore Review 24, nos. 1-2 (2002): 7-20.

“From Landsmanshaften to Vinkln: Mediating Community Among Yiddish Speakers in America.” Jewish History 15, no. 2 (2001): 131-48.

“The American Concept of Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of Traditional Values.” Western Folklore 59, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 87-104.

“The Meanings of Tradition: An Introduction.” Western Folklore 59 , no. 2 (Winter 2000): 87-104.

  “Inventing and Invoking Tradition in Holocaust Memorials.” Newfolk: New Directions in Folklore 4, no. 2 (October 2000). http://www.temple.edu/english/isllc/newfolk/memorials1.html.

“Cultural Historical Studies of Jews in Pennsylvania: A Review and Preview.” Pennsylvania History  66, no. 3 (Summer 1999): 311-38.

“Eulogy for Pennsylvania Folklife (1957-1997).” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania       German Studies 6, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 4-7.

“History and Organization of Children’s Folklore in the American Folklore Society”
Children’s Folklore Review, 20, nos.1-2  (1997-1998): 57-65.

“Consumer Culture and Ethnicity in the Literature of Realism during America’s Gilded Age.”  Kansai American Literature 34 (1997): 59-71.

“‘Me’yin Kesem Afaf Ota’: Retorika Shel Folklor V’historia Bezichronotav Shel Ya’akov Zeifter  Me’ushpitzin .” [“There Was Something Magical About It”: The Rhetoric of
Folklore and History in the Narratives of Jacob Seifter.] Chulyot: Journal of Yiddish Research 4 (Summer 1997): 233-49. [in Hebrew with English summary]

“Inspiriting the Land: Henry Shoemaker and Local Legend in Central Pennsylvania.” Snyder County Historical Society Bulletin 1996, pp. 81-99.

“Craft in American Consciousness.” Meisei Review 12 (1997): 3-26.

“Amerikajin-no Ishiki-ni-okeru Kurafuto” [Craft in American Consciousness] Gakujyutsu Kenkyu Kiyou 17 (March 1997): 127-37. [in Japanese]

“‘Novel Impressions’: Literature and Consumer Culture during America’s Gilded Age.” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 3, no. 2 (1996): 123-43 .

“Shoemaker vs. Shoemaker: The Debate on Pennsylvania Germans in American Tradition.” Der Reggeboge: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society 30, nos. 1-2 (1996): 3-30.

“Epes Tsoyberhaftes: The Rhetoric of Folklore and History in Jacob Seifter’s Memoirs of Auschwitz.” Yiddish 10, nos. 2-3 (1996): 17-33.

“Theorizing and the Mission of Folklore Studies.” Folklore Historian 13 (1996): 25-29.

“The Peculiar History of Public Folklore: Searching for America’s First State Folklorist.”
Folklore Historian 12 (1995): 14-28.

“Exploring American Traditions: A Survey of Folklore and Folklife Research in American Studies,” American Studies International 31, no. 2 (October 1993): 4-36.

“Folk Art on Display: America’s Conflict of Traditions,” American Quarterly 45, no. 1 (March 1993): 128-50.

“Expressing and Creating Ourselves in Childhood:  A Commentary.”  Children’s Folklore Review 15, no. 1 (Fall 1992): 47-59.

“Martha Warren Beckwith, America’s First Chair of Folklore.” Folklore Historian 9 (1992): 5-53.

“James Maidment, Ballad Editor.”  Midwestern Folklore 18, no. 2 (Fall 1992): 64-68.

“A Prophetic Vision of Public and Academic Folklife: Alfred Shoemaker and America’s FirstDepartment of Folklore.”  Folklore Historian 8 (1991): 38-55.

“The Fragmentation of American Folklife Studies.” Journal of American Folklore 103, no. 408 (April-June 1990): 209-14.

“Anglo-American Connections in Folklore and Folklife.”  Folklore 101, no. 1 (1990): 47-57.

“Left to Their Own Devices: Interpreting American Children’s Folklore as an Adaptation to Aging.”  Southern Folklore 47, no. 2 (1990): 101-15.

“Toward a Common Center:  Pragmatism and Folklore Studies.”  Folklore Historian 7 (1990): 23-30.

“Children’s Folklore as an Adaptation to Aging.”  Talking Folklore, no. 7 (August 1989):  21-38.

“The Use of Folklore in the Shaping of American Ideology, 1880-1900.”  International
Folklore Review 6 (1988):  21-25.

“The Anglo-American Fiddle Tradition in New York State.”  New York Folklore 14, nos. 3-4 (1988):  23-35.

“Talking Fieldwork.”  Talking Folklore, no. 5 (November 1988): 5-15.

“Political Suicide: The Budd Dwyer Joke Cycle and the Humor of Disaster.”  Midwestern     Folklore 14, no. 2 (Fall 1988): 81-90.

“Art, Performance, and Praxis: The Rhetoric of Contemporary Folklore Studies.”  Western  Folklore 47, no. 2 (April 1988): 75-101.

“Organizing Knowledge: Four Trends in American Folklore Historiography.”  Folklore Historian 3, no. 2 (Fall 1986): 26-31.

“Material Culture and Region: Lessons from Folk Studies.”  Kentucky Folklore Record 32, nos. 1-2 (January-June 1986): 1-16.

“Folklore and the Behavioral Sciences.”  Anthropos: International Review of Ethnology and Linguistics 79, nos. 1-3 (1984): 251-55.

“The Early Movements of Anthropology and Their Folkloristic Relationships.” Folklore  95, no. 1 (1984): 57-73.

“The Processual Principle in Folk Art, Based on a Study of Wooden Chain Carving.” Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies  22 (1983-1984): 55-67.

“̍What’s Grosser Than Gross?̍:  New Sick Joke Cycles.”  Midwestern Journal of                Language and Folklore 11, no. 1 (1985): 39-49.

“Visible Proofs: Material Culture Study in American Folkloristics.” American Quarterly 35, no. 3 (1983): 316-38.

“Learning of the People: Folkloristics in the Study of Behavior and Thought.”  New York
Folklore 9, nos. 3-4 (Winter 1983): 75-88.

“Links to Behavior: An Analysis of Chain Carving.”  Kentucky Folklore Record 29, nos. 3-4 (July-December 1983): 72-82.

“Suburban Houses and Manner Books: The Structure of Tradition and Aesthetics.” Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 18, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 61-68.

“The Haptic Experience of Culture.”  Anthropos: International Review of Ethnology and
Linguistics 77, nos. 3-4 (1982): 351-62.

“…Feeling’s the Truth.”  Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 48, no. 4 (Winter 1982): 117-24.

“Your Mother’s Like…: Formula in Contemporary American Ritual Insults.” Maledicta:  The International Journal of Verbal Aggression 6, nos. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 1982): 199-210.

“The Hidden Past of Material Culture Studies in American Folkloristics.”  New York     Folklore 8, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1982): 1-10.

“Structural and Stylistic Relations of Oral and Literary Humor: An Analysis of Leo Rosten’s H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Stories.”  Journal of the Folklore Institute 19, no. 1 (January-April 1982): 31-45.

“Historical Methodology in Folkloristics:  Introduction.”  Western Folklore 41, no. 1
(January-April 1982): 28-29.

“Malaise or Revelation?  Observations on the ̍American Folklore̍ Polemic.” Western Folklore 41, no. 1 (January 1982): 52-61.

“Modern Anthropological Trends and their Folkloristic Relationships.”  Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies 19 (1981): 66-83.

“Saturday Night in Greenville:  An Interracial Tale-and-Music Session in Context.”  Folklore Forum 14, no. 2 (Fall 1981): 85-120.

“The Folk Technics of Chain Carving.”  Studies in Traditional American Crafts 4 (September 1981): 3-20.

“Charlotte Burne, British Folklorist:  A Re-examination.” Folklore Women’s Communication, no. 24 (Spring 1981): 14-19.

“Investigating Identity and Expression in Folk Art.”  Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 16, no. 1 (Spring 1981): 65-83.

“The Durlauf Family:  Three Generations of Stonecarvers in Southern Indiana.”  Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 13, no. 1 (March 1981): 17-26.

“American Folklore vs. Folklore in America:  A Fixed Fight?”  Journal of the Folklore Institute 17, no. 1 (January-April 1980): 76-84 (with Stephen Stern).

“The Harris House and Related Structures in South-Central Indiana.”  Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 12, no. 1 (February 1980): 9-34.

“Reflections on Field Research in the Folklife Sciences.”  New York Folklore 6, nos. 3-4 (Winter 1980): 151-60.

“An Experiential Portrait of a Woodcarver.”  Indiana Folklore 13, nos. 1-2 (1980): 30-45.

“From Neglect to Concept:  An Introduction to the Study of Material Aspects of American Folk Culture.”  Folklore Forum 12, nos. 2-3 (1979): 117-32 (with Stephen Poyser).

“Concepts in the Study of Material Aspects of American Folk Culture.”  Folklore Forum 12, nos. 2-3 (1979): 133-72.

“We Live What I Paint and I Paint What I See: A Mennonite Artist in Northern Indiana.”
  Indiana Folklore 12, no. 1 (1979): 5-17.

“Old Time Tunes on Edison Records.”  Journal of Country Music 8, no. 1 (May 1979): 95-100.

“Pictorial Jokes: A Traditional Combination of Verbal and Graphic Processes.”  Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 44, no. 4 (December 1978): 189-96.

“Who Says?: A Further Investigation of Ritual Insults among White American Adolescents.” Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 4, no. 2 (Fall 1978): 53-69.

“A Re-Examination of Dozens among White American Adolescents.”  Western Folklore 37, no. 2 (April 1978): 118-28.

“Recent Folk Art Publications:  A Review Essay.”  Mid-South Folklore 6, no. 1 (Spring 1978): 27-30.

“Country Music Tradition in Western New York State.”  Journal of Country Music 7, no. 1 (January 1978): 29-59.

“Country Music Culture in Central New York State.” John Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly 13, no. 48 (Winter 1977): 171-82.

“I Kicked Three Slats Out of My Cradle First Time I Heard That:  Ken Kane, Country Music, and American Folklife.”  New York Folklore 3, nos. 1-4 (Summer-Winter 1977): 53-81.

“Bad Man Monroe Legends from the Delta Region of Mississippi.” Mid-South Folklore 5, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 53-58.

“Peddler Traditions and Street Cries in Contemporary Perspective.”  New York Folklore 2, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1976): 2-16.

“Concrete Folklore: Sidewalk Box Games.”  Western Folklore 36, no. 2 (April 1977): 171-73.

“Woodhull’s Old Tyme Masters:  A Hillbilly Band in the Northern Tradition.” John             Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly 12, no. 42 (Summer 1976): 54-62.

MAGAZINE ESSAYS

“Sailor Men: Are Navy Rituals, Like Kissing the Royal Belly, Homophobic or Homoerotic?”    American Sexuality Magazine (June 19, 2007).

“Atogaki ni Kaete: Beijin ni Kyoojyu no Komento. Jinbun-gaku ga Arata na Jyookyoo ni Taiou Suru Tame Ni.” [Adjusting to New Conditions in the Humanities].  Bosei (January 1998), 64-65 [in Japanese].

“Fun Vanet Shtamstu?” [Where Are You From?] Der Onheib 26 (November 1997), 89-90. [creative essay in Yiddish on Holocaust theme]

“‘Corn Enough to Make It Entertaining’:  An Interview with Lyle Miles.”  Old-Time Music, No. 45 (Spring 1989), 6-12.

“Stewart Culin, Museum Magician.”  Pennsylvania Heritage 11, no. 3 (Summer 1985), 4-    11.

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