Index

Aarne, Antti: Verzeichnis der Märchentypen, 56, 58, 106

Abrahams, Roger, 139, 143

Age-area hypothesis, 114

Amateur: demise of, 1

American Anthropological Association, 125

American Anthropologist, 32

American Dialect Society, 64

American Ethnological Society, 69

American Folklore Society: 69; founding, x, 136; 1940 reorganization, x; anthropological control, xi; literary folklorists’ position in, xi; centennial, 12; Fletcher S. Bassett’s International Folklore Congress, 24-25, 30; membership, 31, 36, 41-44, 78-79, 89; location for, Cambridge, 34; 1914 resolution for rotation of president between anthropology and literature, 36-37; presidents, 36, 146n; membership agreement with MLA, 37; anthropological and literary balance, 38, 40-44; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40-44; president, alternation between literary and anthropological, 41, 43; amateurs’ inclusion, 42, 43, 44; amateurs’ exclusion, 43; amateur contributions, 80

American Folklore Society and Chicago Folk-Lore Society: conflict, 22, 24-26, 28, 29, 30

American Folklore Society Annual Meeting: 37-38; first, 13; 1908, 35; location, 36; with AAA, 38-39, 146; fifty-second, 39-40, 41, 43; with AAA and MLA, 39, 41, 44

American Folklore Society Memoirs, 14, 68

American Indian folklore, 5-6, 15, 16, 17, 32

American Museum of Natural History, 73, 15, 80, 87

Anthropological and literary folklorists: 99, 119; as categories, 8-9; folklore, approach to, 9-10, 11; 1907 balance between, 33; contrast of approach, 100; shared concerns, 112; similarity of approach, 121-22, 124; conflict between, xi, xii, 1, 6, 22, 31, 36, 39, 40, 43, 124, 128-30, 140, 144

Anthropological folklorists: 66, 68-98, 140; folklore, 6, 7; folk, 6, 7, 100; departments of affiliation, 9, 10; folklore, approach to, 10-11; AFS, control of, 45; area, 96; folklore courses, 98; folklore as part of culture, 99, 119; folk, 100; genre, 119; folklore context, 121; fieldwork, 120-21; AFS and JAF control, 138, 141

Anthropologists: folklore, withdrawal from, x; folklore, interest in, xi

Anthropology: science or humanities, 4; folklore, inclusion of, 68; amateurs, 147n

Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture, 132-33, 134

Baer, Florence E., 134-35

Baker, Ronald: folklore courses, 141

Ballads: 9, 14, 29, 63, 64, 102, 121; broadsides, 48; communal theory of origin, 52, 147”

Barnard College, 90

Barrett, Samuel A., 76-77, 78, 148n

Barry, Phillip, 121

Bascom, William: 85, 126-30; verbal art, 6, 100, 137; fieldwork, 85; courses, 86; Afro-American folktales, origin of, 131-34; death of, 135; anthropological and literary folklorists, reconciliation of, 136-37

Bascom, William, and Berta Montero Bascom: Yoruba proverbs, 82

Bassett, Fletcher S.: 45; Chicago Folk-Lore Society, founding of, 22; Sea Phantoms, 23; folklore, independent discipline, 23, 24, 30; 1893 International Folk-Lore Congress, Department of Literature, 24, 26, 28; death of, 30

Bauman, Richard, 138, 139, 143

Beckwith, Martha Warren, 75, 95-96

Beiden, Henry: AFS president, 36

Bell, Michael: 19-21, 138; William Wells Newell on folklore and mythology, 19-21

Ben-Amos, Dan: xi, 12, 66, 144; anthropological and literary folklorists’ centers of activity, 8, 45; Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge, influence on folklore courses, 52; learned societies and universities, 97-98; Franz Boas’s control of anthropology, 97-98; genres, 102; classification, 104; performance theory, 138-39, 140; folklore theories, 142, 143

Benedict, Laura Watson, 75, 96

Benedict, Ruth: x, 9, 73, 74, 75, 82, 84, 86, 89-93, 119, 136; anthropology and humanities, 4; JAF editor, 31, 93; anthropology and humanities, 90; Patterns of Culture , 91; Zuni mythology, 91-92; courses, 92; Franz Boas’s folklore research, 113; culture and personality, 120; humanities and science, 123

Berkeley Folklore Club, 79

Boas, Franz: x, 38, 49, 147n, 68-76, 77, 80, 82, 84, 90, 94, 95, 135-36, 140; death of, x, 144; The Central Eskimo, 1; anthropology and science, 4; anthropological approach to folklore, 9, 10; William Wells Newell, 13; JAF editor, 14, 31, 146n, 35, 69, 136, 141; 1893 World’s Fair Congress of Anthropology, 27; folklore and professionalism, 28, 43; anthropology and professionalism, 30; folklore as anthropology, 30, 97; AFS and amateurs, 30; JAF, influence on, 32; JAF, AA merger, 33; William Wells Newell’s death, 33; JAF, dissatisfaction with, 34; JAF editorial appointment, 35; JAF and European folklore, 35; negro folklore, 35; AFS presidential selection, 37; amateurs, exclusion of, 43, 44; Tales of the North American Indian, review of, 58; anthropology, plan for, 68; folklore collection, 69; JAF as publication outlet, 68-69; anthropology, importance to, 69; AFS and AES as counter-bloc to AAA, 69, 147; university training, 69-70; fieldwork in Arctic, 70; folktale recording, 71; obscene folklore, 71; folktales, 71-72; American Indian languages, 72-73; method of instruction, 72-74; Eskimo informants, 73; Columbia University, 75; Alfred Louis Kroeber, instructions for Eskimo work, 75; students of, 75; AFS, California branch, 80; courses, 72-73, 148n, 80, 97; JAF editorial policies, 80; Elsie Clews Parsons, 87; JAF renaming, 96; anthropology, 96-97; students as power bloc, 97; native language texts, 72, 112; collection, 112; cultures, 111-12; diffusion, 113-15, 149n; folklore research, 113; theory, 113; myth as mirror, 114; catch words, 114-16, 118-19; AFS and BAE concordance, 116; myth concordance, 118, 121; field-work, 120

Boas, Franz, and William Wells Newell: scientific credibility of folklore studies, 22

Bock, Kenneth, xi

Boggs, Ralph: 54; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40

Botkin, Benjamin: Louise Pound, 64

Bourke, John, 116

Brinton, Daniel: 116; 1893 World’s Fair Congress of Anthropology, 27; folklore, JAF emphasis, 32

Briscoe, Virginia: Ruth Benedict, 89-90

Bunzel, Ruth: 9, 75, 86; Franz Boas, 73-74; Zuni fieldwork, 74

Bureau of American Ethnology, 27, 120

California Folklore Society: Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture, 54

California Folklore Quarterly: See Taylor, Archer

Campbell, Ake, 101

Campbell, Joseph: 126; AFS committee on membership, 42

Catch words, 83, 136

Central Eskimo, The, 10

Chamberlain, Alexander: 31, 14671, 72; JAF editor, 35, 36

Chicago Folk-Lore Society, 22, 24, 27, 31, 43, 45, 67, 138

Child, Francis James: 66, 100, 140; English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1; literary approach to folklore, 9-10; ballads, 10, 45-49, 14671, 101; ballad, attitude toward, 28-29, 14671; AFS president, 36; ballad manuscripts, 46, 146; University of Berlin, 46; ballad collection, 102; ballad devolution, 103; ballad number, 104

Child, Francis James, and George Lyman Kittredge: 63, 97, 99; student of, 52; Fred Norris Robinson, 61

Children’s games, 13, 15

Clark University, 31, 14671

Columbia University: 9, 10, 72, 77, 80, 82, 83, 84, 90, 92, 97; JAF editorial office, 32, 39-40; Ruth Benedict, treatment of, 93, 148-49 n

Crane, Thomas F. : diffusion, 16

Cultural evolutionary theory, 19, 20, 21, 23

Culture: 10, 99-100; anthropology, frame for, 111

Culture reflector method, 114

Curti, Merle, 142

Curtin, Jeremiah: mythology concordance, 116

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 120

Daniels, George: pure science ideal, 2

Darnell, Regina: 69; BAE mythology concordance, 116

Definitions: conflict, 5, 6

Dialects, 15

Diffusion, 16, 97, 107, 113-14, 121, 122, 130, 140

Disciplinary matrix: See Kuhn, Thomas

Disciplines: development of, xii; territory of, 3, 5, 145n; institutionalization of, 4

Dissemination: See Diffusion

Dixon, Roland: 34, 121, 136; William Wells Newell’s death, 33; George Lyman Kittredge’s access to literary folklorists, 50; Stith Thompson, assistance to, 59

Dorsey, J. Owen, 14, 116, 117

Dorson, Richard: 8, 144; Indiana University’s folklore graduate program, 7; AFS resurgence, 12; MacEdward Leach, 63; Stith Thompson’s motif work, 105; Afro-American folktales, origin of, 130-31, 134; death of, 135; Franz Boas, remarks on, 135-36, 137-38; anthropologists and folklore, 135-37; performance theory, 139; folklore courses, 141; folklore theories, 142, 143

DuBois, Cora: AFS Committee on Membership, 42

Dundes, Alan: 8-9, 144; anthropological and literary orientation to folklore, 8; William Wells Newell on folklore and mythology, 19; black folklore, 100; devolution, 103; folklore, discipline of, 124; hero pattern, 126; Afro-American folktales, origin of, 130; European scholarship, 142-43

Dwyer-Shick, Susan: 144; anthropological and literary folklorists’ conflict, 8; JAF editors, 31

Eggan, Fred, x

English and Scottish ballads, 45, 46-49, 50

English and Scottish Popular Ballads, The, 9, 100

English Folklore Society: founding of, 16

Erixon, Sigurd, 101

Espinosa, Aurelio: 63; AFS president, 37, 65; Elsie Clews Parsons’s funding of, 89

Ethnography and folklore, 7

European folklore societies, 16-17

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 116

Fieldwork, 10-11

Finland: folklore studies, center for, 101

Finnish historic-geographic method, 107-11

Fischer, David: chronic fallacy, xi

Fletcher, Alice, 116

Folk: 17, 18, 100

Folklore: comparative study, x; study of, psychological, x; European orientation to, 5, 16, 17, 143; American orientation to, 5, 16, 17, 20; collection, 11, 14, 22, 59-60, 101, 110, 122; fieldwork, 11; discipline of, 12, 124, 142; oral emphasis, 17; scientific study of, 18; affiliation of, 22; interdisciplinary nature, 23; literature, 23, 25; independent discipline, 26; anthropology, part of, 25, 26, 30, 43; archiving of, 59; context of, 138-39

Folklore graduate programs, 7-8

Folklore recording: wax cylinders, 30; aluminum discs, 62; Ediphone, 83

Folklorist: identity of, xi, 128, 129, 135, 142, 143, 144

Folk-Lorist, The: Journal of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society, 22-23

Folktales: 58-59, 65, 84-85, 91, 130-35; negro, 15; Asiatic-American, 71; Afro-American, origin of, 130-35

Fontenrose, Joseph, 125, 126, 129

Fortier, Alcee: AFS president, 36

Foster, George, 68

Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, 54, 55

Frazer, James George, 129

Gayton, Anna: x; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40

Geertz, Clifford, xii

Genres, 10, 99, 102, 103, 139

Georges, Robert, 140, 143

Glassie, Henry: MacEdward Leach, 23, 147n

Goddard, Pliny Early: 75, 87; courses, 77-78, 98; AFS president, 87

Goldenweiser, Alexander, 69, 73, 84, 89

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm: Francis James Child, influence on, 46

Grimm, Wilhelm: ballad origin, 103-104

Grundtvig, Svend: 100-101, Francis James Child, 46, 48, 146n

Gummere, Francis, 52

Gunther, Erna, 92

Hale, Horatio, 32

Hallowell, A. Irving: x; JAF editor, remarks on, 40; AFS president, 40, 42; Frank Speck, 82

Hand, Wayland: 54-55, 66, 140, 143; Chicago Folk-Lore Society, 24; AFS, AAA treatment of, 38; folk beliefs, folk medicine, legends, 45; AFS president, 55; JAF editor, 55; Dictionary of American Popular Beliefs and Superstitions, 55; MacEdward Leach, 65

Harris, Joel Chandler, 131, 134

Harrison, Jane, 125, 128, 129

Hart, Walter Morris: 52, 55; ballads, 45; Child’s ballad concept, 102

Harvard University, 10, 45, 52, 53, 55, 60, 61, 62, 97

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson: 77; Alfred Louis Kroeber, job offer, 76

Herskovits, Frances Shapiro, 84

Herskovits, Melville: 9, 75, 82, 84, 85, 100, 130, 131, 132, 136, 138; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40; Franz Boas and dissertation topics, 73-74; folktale collecting, 84

Herzog, George, 39, 40, 82, 101

Holmes, W. H.: 1893 World’s Fair Congress of Anthropology, 27

Humanities: in academia, 3-4

Hurston, Zora Neale, 75

Hustvedt, Sigurd: 52-53; ballads, 45

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 127, 128-30, 135

Hymes, Dell, 95

Indiana University: 12, 45, 52, 57; folklore graduate program, 7

International Folk-Lore Congress, 22

Jacobi, Abraham, 70

Jacobs, Melville: 68, 75, 82-83, 120 Franz Boas, 71, 72; fieldwork, 82-83; literary and scientific, 123

Jesup Expedition, 120

Jesup, Mrs. Morris, 75

Jones, Steven, 140

Journal of American Folklore: anthropological control, x, 31, 32, 69; literary folklorists, xi; anthropologists, publication in, xi; Volume I, 13, 14; folklore, field and scope, 14-16, 17; editor, 14, 31; amateur contributions, 28-29; American Anthropologist, merger with, 32-33; literary, inclusion of, 34-35; move from Columbia, 39-40; editor selection, 41, 44; editorial policy, scientific orientation, 43

Karpeles, Maud, 101

Kittredge, George Lyman: 1, 9, 34, 35, 45, 49-52, 146-47, 53, 62, 66, 101, 140; ballads, 10; JAF editor, 35, 36; Francis James Child, 46; The English and Scottish Popular Ballad, 47; scholarly interests, 49; AFS vice-president and president, 49; MLA president, 49; Texas Folklore Society, 49; Philips Exeter Academy, 49, 146; courses, 50-52, 147n; JAF assistant editor, 50; European folktales among American Indians: 55-56; John Lomax’s cowboy songs, 61; death of, 144

Kohler, Reinhold, 59, 101

Krappe, Alexander Haggerty, 66

Kroeber, Alfred Louis: 8, 9, 63, 73, 75-80, 83, 113, 136, 140; anthropology and humanities, 4; William Wells Newell, replacement of, 34; Franz Boas, 72-73; Eskimo work, 73, 75; Columbia graduate work, 75; Arapaho decorative symbolism, 75, 76; Phoebe Apperson Hearst, response to, 76; museum work, 76-77; courses, 76-78, 148, 80; folklore, 80; AFS president, 80; catch words, 115-16, 117

Krohn, Kaarle: 101, 107, 121; Stith Thompson, 58, 59

Kuhn, Thomas: history of science, xi; disciplinary matrix, 4-5

Kulturkreislehre, 114

LaBarre, Weston: Frank Speck, 82

Lang, Andrew, 21, 49, 101

Langer, Susanne, 99

Leach, MacEdward: 10, 63-64, 147n, 66; ballad course, 63; students of, 64

Lesser, Alexander: 82; Franz Boas’s field-work, 120

Literary folklorists: 45-67, 97,140; folklore, 6, 7; folk, 6, 7, 100; departments of affiliation, 9, 10; genre, 99, 103, 119; European orientation, 100-101; devolutionary and evolutionary approach, 103; European orientation, focus on text, 104; fieldwork, 121

Lomax, John: 49, 56, 147n, 101, 110, 136; AFS president, 36, 61; cowboy songs, 61; Folk Song Library, 61; Texas Folklore Society, founding of, 61; collecting methods, 61-62

Lord, Albert: The Singer of Tales, 62; variation by performance, 111

Lord, Albert, and Milman Parry: oral formulaic theory, 62-63

Lord Raglan, 125-28

Lowell, James Russell: Francis James Child, 46, 47

Lowie, Robert: 9, 73, 75, 80-81, 83, 84, 121, 136, 140; anthropology and science, 4; Franz Boas, 80; fieldwork, 80-81; catch words, 81, 115-16; test theme, 81; courses, 78, 98; American Indian folklore, 81; psychoanalytic interpretation, 120

Luomala, Katherine, 93

Maranda, Elli Köngäs, 139

Mason, Otis T.: museum exhibits, 112

Matthews, Washington, 27, 116

McDermott, Louis, 78

McGee, W. J.: science, 3

McNeil, William: 138; anthropological and literary folklorists’ rivalry, 8

Mead, Margaret: 82; Franz Boas, 73; Melville Herskovits, 84; Ruth Benedict, 90, 92

Merton, Ambrose: folklore, creation of term, 16

Midcentury Folklore Conference: 101-102; Finnish historic-geographic method, reaction to, 109-11

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, 62

Mintz, Jerome, 7

Mintz, Sidney: Ruth Benedict, 90

Modern Language Association, 125

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, 104-106, 121-22, 133

Motifs, 57, 83, 104, 121, 139

Myth concordance, 117-18, 136

Mythology, 17, 18, 91, 125-30

Myth-ritual debate, 125-30

Nature allegorical theory, 23

Negro folklore: William Wells Newell, 14, 15; Elsie Clews Parsons, 87

New School for Social Research, 84, 89

Newell, William Wells: 13, 112; AFS founding, 1, 13; JAF and scientific concern, 13, 14; JAF editor, 14, 31, 32, 33; Volume I, JAF, 15, 29; Franz Boas, 17; American Indian folklore, 17, 19, 20; folklore and mythology, 17-19, 20; folklore and literary studies, 18; JAF entry headings, 18-19; folklore and anthropology, 18, 25-26, 30, 31, 33, 97, 98; folklore’s affiliation with literature, 25-26; 1893 World’s Fair Congress of Anthropology, 25; folklore term, 26; folklore as science, 26; folklore and professionalism, 28; AFS and amateurs, 29; folklore, oral nature of, 29; JAF standards of scholarship, 29; folklore, scientific concern for, 29-30; obscene folklore, 30; Chicago Folk-Lore Society, 31; folklore, scientific credibility of, 31; JAF, literary and anthropological publications, 32; JAF, AA merger, 32-33; death of, 33; folklore and professionalism, 43; amateurs, exclusion of, 43, 44; AFS Memoirs, 68; AFS, California branch, 78-79

Northwestern University, 85

Nuttall, Zelia: 97; Alfred Louis Kroeber’s employment, 76

Ohio State University: 52; folklore program and archives, 60

Oral literature, 100

Oral formulaic theory, 62-63

O’Sullivan, Sean, 101

Parallel development, 113-14

Parry, Milman: 121; Iliad and Odyssey , 62; Yugoslavian epics, 62

Parsons, Elsie Clews: 9, 37, 65, 84, 86-89, 148 n, 90, 119, 134, 136; death of, x; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40; JAF editor, remarks on, 40; AFS Committee on Membership, 42; Ruth Bunzel, funding of, 74; negro folklore, 87; empiricism, 87-88; field-work, 88; AFS Memoirs, 89; AFS president, 89; JAF associate editor, 89; philanthropy, 89; Southwest Indian concordance project, 92; myth concordance, 118

Patterns of culture, 119-20

Peabody Museum, 59

Peasants, 17, 18

Peirce, Charles Sanders: science as leisure, 2

Performance theory, 138-40

Pitré, Giuseppe, 101

Pound, Louise: 63, 64-65; AFS president, 37, 64

Powell, John W., 116

Professional: identity of, 3, 5; See also Science

Professionalism: xi, 2, 28; development of, 1

Professional societies, 2, 3, 5

Propp, Vladimir, 123

Proverbs, 15, 52, 86

Psychic unity, 113

Putnam, Frederick Ward: Alfred Louis Kroeber, employment of, 76; Alfred Louis Kroeber and North American ethnology course, 77; AFS, California branch, 79

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., x

Radin, Paul: 73, 75, 94-95, 119, 140; anthropology and humanities, 4; Robert Lowie, 81; courses, 98; psychological approach, 120

Randolph, Vance, 60

Ranke, Kurt: Motif-Index, review of, 105-106

Ray, Verne F.: AFS Standing Committee on Membership, 42-43

Redfield, Robert: little and great tradition, 7

Reichard, Gladys: 9, 75, 86, 93-94, 112; JAF editor, 31, 32, 39; Elsie Clews Parsons, 87; Franz Boas and folklore, 119

Reuss, Richard, 11, 12

Richmond, Edson, 60

Riddles, 15, 54

Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 85

Roberts, Warren, 7

Robinson, Fred Norris, 53, 61

Rosenberg, Bruce, 60

Rosenburg, Charles: science as metaphor, 3

Sapir, Edward: 73, 75, 90-91; anthropology and humanities, 4; Paul Radin, 95

Science: 3; legitimizing power of, 1

Scientism, 3, 4, 145n

Sharp, Cecil, 136

Snow, C. P.: two cultures, 4

Social sciences: place in academia, 3

Solar mythology, 113-14

Southern Folklore Quarterly, 64

Specialization, 1, 2, 3

Speck, Frank: 9, 63, 75, 81-82, 98; courses, 82

Stocking, George: discontinuity in history, xi-xii; culture concept, 111

Superstitions, 14-15

Survivals, 15, 23, 25, 48, 92

Swanton, John: 136; catch words, 116, 117; myth concordance, 117-18

Tale type, 104, 139

Taylor, Archer: 9, 53-54, 66, 86, 99, 101, 141; folklore definition, 6; riddles, 10; proverbs, 10, 45, 102, 103; AFS president, 37, 54; JAF editor, 40, 42, 54; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40; courses, 53-54; California Folklore Quarterly founder, 54; Stith Thompson’s motif research, 57-58; Kararle Krohn, 58; folktale collection, 101; genre evolution, 104; The Black Ox, 107-109, 110; folktale study, critique of, 122

Taylor, Archer, and Stith Thompson: founders of modern folklore scholarship, 53

Test theme, 83

Texas Folklore Society: 49, 59; See also Thompson, Stith, and Lomax, John

Text-context controversy, 11, 139-40

Thompson, Stith: 9, 40, 43, 49, 55-60, 66, 97, 99, 100, 121, 123, 130, 133, 139, 141; Ph.D. folklore program, Indiana University, 7, 57; folktales, 10, 45, 102, 103; AFS president, 37; AFS fiftieth year, 38; AFS, AAA joint meeting, 39; 1940 Committee on Policy, 40; AFS committee on membership, 42; George Lyman Kittredge as teacher, 51; Walter Morris Hart, 52; American Indian folktales, 55-56, 57; The Types of the Folktale, 56, 58, 106-107; University of Texas, 56; Texas Folklore Society, 57; motifs, 57, 104; courses, 57, 147; Motif-Index of Folk Literature, 58-59; Tales of North American Indians, 58; anthropological and literary folklorists, 59; Midcentury International Folklore Conference, 101; folklore research, 101-102; tale type, 104; “The Star Husband Tale/’ 109, 110; Finnish historic-geographic method, 109-11, 149; anthropologists, relations with, 119; myth concordance, 118; European orientation, 130

Thoresen, Timothy: Alfred Louis Kroeber, 76, 80

Tozzer, Alfred: 33, 59; AFS, secretary pro tem, 34; anthropologists’ predominance in AFS, 34; JAF inclusion of literary, 34; Franz Boas as JAF editor, 35; AFS, JAF changes, 35; JAF, European folklore, 36; literary folklorists, inclusion of, 50; AFS, California branch, 79-80

Tylor, Edward B.: 114; Franz Boas, 70-71; culture, 111

Types of the Folktale, The, 133

University departments, 2

University of California, Berkeley: 9, 45, 52, 53-54, 55, 76, 80, 83, 85, 93; JAF editorial office, 40

University of California, Los Angeles: 45, 52; graduate program in folklore, 7; Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, 54

University of Chicago, 53

University of North Carolina, 54

University of Pennsylvania, 7, 9, 10, 63-64, 82

University of Texas: 49, 52, 61; graduate program in folklore, 7; See also Thompson, Stith

Ur form, 107, 122

Utley, Francis Lee: 60-61, 66, 140; anthropological and literary folklorists, conflict between, 6, 124-25; folklore courses, 60

Vance, Lee: 1893 World’s Fair, 25

Vassar College Folklore Foundation, 95-96

Verbal art: See Bascom, William

Voegelin, Erminie: 100, 144; folklore definition, 6

Wake, C. Staniland, 28

Walens, Stanley: Franz Boas, 72

Wallis, Wilson: courses, 78

Washington University, 53

Waterman, Thomas T.: 83, 121; courses, 78; myth concordance, 118

Weltfish, Gene, 82, 92

White, Leslie: 1940 Committee on Policy, 40

Wilgus, D. K.: 60, 140-41; Harvard as center for folksong study, 51-52

Wissler, Clark, 80

Wolf, Eric: Alfred Louis Kroeber, 76

Wood, Henry: AFS president, 36

World’s Fair Congress of Anthropology, 1893: 25, 26, 27-28