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Logger's Sheet

Logger: Lori Taylor.           91
Reel Number: 4            Stage: AFS
Date: 6/24/1988          Presentor: Frank Proschan
Group Name: Personal Politics: Folk community members
Region/Style: and folklorists
Performer(s)                Instrument/Occupation
Bernice Raegon (cultural worker - Black American Program Smithsonian)
Henry Glassie (folklorist - U of Pennsylvania -> to Indiana University)
Howard Sacks (folklorist - Columbus, Ohio)
Frank Proschan (folklorist - Washington, DC

Contents
1. FP - about conventional politics/government.
2. HG - varying perceptions of/uses of term "politics"
socialistic values underlying folklore theory.
3. BR - international political agenda can run counter to festival ideology
using sacred traditions toward political transformation.
4. HS - personal level of larger dynamics - politics = exertion of power.
gender roles in contradiction to folklorists own ideas. 
5. HG - transition from guest/host to friends, from formal to casual. 
folklore work as "very tightly contextual"
6. FP - when you as folklorist are in intense conflict (ideological)
with the people, do you simply leave?
7. BR -issues of racism in her contacts in the field and with folkloristics.
8. HG - the art of "the utter suspension of feeling," suspend notion of politics
growing into an appropriate approach to politics of those studied.
9. HS - necessity of exchange of feeling with those he studies.
BR- the people's expectations of the folklorist (in Baptist community- are you saved?)
11. HS - mistakes are mad. HG- how do we avoid it?
12. HG - building up rapport, extreme care until they have a sense of the worker
13. They (HG,HS,BR) represent 3 different roles of folklorist.
Maintenence of culture - soviet example w/cassette 
Corel