"Rather out of the center of things": Contributions of Alta Fife to American folklore scholarship

From: Western Folklore | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

While folklorists consider looking at the overlooked as a key contribution of the field, the history of folklore studies still holds many overlooked areas, issues, and people. The folklore work of Alta Fife offers an important complement and contrast to the contributions of her husband, Austin Fife, and other prominent folklorists of the mid-twentieth century. Although Austin only taught folklore courses at the end of his work as a French professor, his academic career is similar to the trajectories of other professionally trained scholars who established folklore studies as an academic field ...

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