by Lisa Rathje | Sep 16, 2023
Teaching with Folk Sources offers an inquiry-based set of lessons and learning activities. We define some frequently used terms highlighted in green throughout this introduction. Ethnography: A study of culture and cultural processes that uses multiple ways to...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 16, 2023
Numerous people have acknowledged the importance of quiltmaking within the African American experience. Zora Neale Hurston, who closely examined Black vernacular cultural traditions, included references to quilts in her folklore-infused writing. Alice Walker (1973)...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 16, 2023
For thousands of years tribal elders would sit down with the children and tell them stories. The stories were always the same, there was never a word out of place. It had to be that way, it had to be accurate. Darren Parry, author of “History and Perspective” and...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 15, 2023
For me, primary sources have long had an enduring appeal because of their direct link to people and their knowledge. In fact, helping create the conditions for people to share a piece of their lives is what attracted me to anthropology and specifically fieldwork that...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 15, 2022
Death has been on my mind. Minding the end times reverberates at many scales—global, personal, physical, spiritual. Solstice pulled me out among the winter whispery grasses and low trees on my land. Science predicts the devastation of the two-needle piñon, the...
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