Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United St... by Henry Glassie

Glassie has lectured through United States and Canada, and in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, India, Bangladesh, China, and Japan.

Additionally in 201, he was awarded the prestigious Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies honouring a “scholarly career of distinctive importance,” – and the first folklorist to be so honoured. In 2010, he received the American Folklore Society’s award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. Three of his works have been named among the notable books of the year by The New York Times. Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Kniffen and Douglas awards of the Pioneer America Society, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize, and formal recognition for his contributions from the ministries of culture of Turkey and Bangladesh. ‘I don’t study people,’ Glassie says, ‘I stand with people and I study the things they create.’ The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019 and received the Best Irish Documentary award at the 2020 Galway Film Fleadh. This immersive and meditative film, set among the rituals and rhythms of working artists in Brazil, Turkey, North Carolina and Ireland, demonstrates Glassie’s focus on folklore and art but reveals a deep abiding love for the people who create.

The full film by Irish film-maker Pat Collins is available to watch in its entirety via this link Tickets £5.00 (Folklore Society members £3.00 with Promo code) We will host this event via Zoom and there will be an opportunity for questions from attendees.īooking via Eventbrite, sales open 15 th June Following a recent documentary film portrait of the celebrated American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie, ‘Henry Glassie: Field Work’, the Folklore Society are pleased to host a conversation with Henry himself and Doc Rowe, himself a dedicated field worker in folklore and tradition in the UK.

Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United St... by Henry Glassie