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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