In Talking Culture's final full episode in season one, Alejandra, Meghan, and Daniel explore the work of Zora Neale Hurston. They discuss the boundaries she came up against in her pursuit of anthropology as well as the disciplinary boundaries between anthropology and folklore studies and where much of her work sits on the line of fiction and nonfiction. Throughout the episode the point to the debt anthropology owes to Hurston, and how her work paved the way for much of what anthropology strives to do today.
Sources:
Bascom, William R. 1953 Folklore and Anthropology. The Journal of American Folklore 66(262):283-290. https://www.jstor.org/stable/536722.
Ben-Amos, Dan.1971 Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context. The Journal of American Folklore 84(331):3-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/539729.
Boyd, Valerie. 2003. Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner.
Darnell, Regna. 1973 American Anthropology and the Development of Folklore Scholarship: 1890-1920, Journal of the Folklore Institute 10(1/2):23-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813878.
Dorson, Richard M. 1963 Current Folklore Theories. Current Anthropology 4(1):93-112. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2739820.
Hemenway, Robert. 1976 Folklore Field Notes from Zora Neale Hurston. The Black Scholar 7(7):39-46. DOI: 10.1080/00064246.1976.11413814.
Hurston, Zora Neale. 1939 Sound Recordings by Zora Neale Hurston. Library of Congress.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Franz Boas, Arnold Rampersad, Henry Louis Gates, and Miguel Covarrubias. 2008. Mules and Men 1St Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. New York: Harper Perennial.
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Zora Neale Hurston." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 24, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zora-Neale-Hurston.
Pooley, William G. 2018 Native to the Past: History, Anthropology, and Folklore. Past and Present 239(1): e1–e15. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv038.
Russell, Mary Catherine. 2017 Zora Neale Hurston: Scientist, Folklorist, Storyteller. Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Tennessee 8(1):124-138. http://trace.tennessee.edu/pursuit/vol8/iss1/13.
In Talking Culture's final full episode in season one, Alejandra, Meghan, and Daniel explore the work of Zora Neale Hurston. They discuss the boundaries she came up against in her pursuit of anthropology as well as the disciplinary boundaries between anthropology and folklore studies and where much of her work sits on the line of fiction and nonfiction. Throughout the episode the point to the debt anthropology owes to Hurston, and how her work paved the way for much of what anthropology strives to do today.
Sources:
Bascom, William R. 1953 Folklore and Anthropology. The Journal of American Folklore 66(262):283-290. https://www.jstor.org/stable/536722.
Ben-Amos, Dan.1971 Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context. The Journal of American Folklore 84(331):3-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/539729.
Boyd, Valerie. 2003. Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner.
Darnell, Regna. 1973 American Anthropology and the Development of Folklore Scholarship: 1890-1920, Journal of the Folklore Institute 10(1/2):23-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813878.
Dorson, Richard M. 1963 Current Folklore Theories. Current Anthropology 4(1):93-112. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2739820.
Hemenway, Robert. 1976 Folklore Field Notes from Zora Neale Hurston. The Black Scholar 7(7):39-46. DOI: 10.1080/00064246.1976.11413814.
Hurston, Zora Neale. 1939 Sound Recordings by Zora Neale Hurston. Library of Congress.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Franz Boas, Arnold Rampersad, Henry Louis Gates, and Miguel Covarrubias. 2008. Mules and Men 1St Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. New York: Harper Perennial.
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Zora Neale Hurston." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 24, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zora-Neale-Hurston.
Pooley, William G. 2018 Native to the Past: History, Anthropology, and Folklore. Past and Present 239(1): e1–e15. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv038.
Russell, Mary Catherine. 2017 Zora Neale Hurston: Scientist, Folklorist, Storyteller. Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Tennessee 8(1):124-138. http://trace.tennessee.edu/pursuit/vol8/iss1/13.