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Tag: Folklore
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Arts & Culture
African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds
Harvard scholars Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar discuss the collaborative effort behind “The Annotated African American Folktales.”
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Campus & Community
Fairy tales for all
Professor Maria Tatar offered her insight into the enduring cultural appeal of fairy tales in an installment of the John Harvard Book Celebration series.
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Arts & Culture
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell examines witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather.
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Arts & Culture
Red hot for bluegrass
Harvard hosts one-day symposium on bluegrass music, past and present on Saturday (Feb. 6).
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Campus & Community
Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82
Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.
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Campus & Community
Colloquium attracts scholars, witches
What does the word “witchcraft” mean to you? If it’s Elizabeth Montgomery’s twitching nose or something some hapless woman in Colonial Salem was put to death for, you’ve got some catching up to do.