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Item Tracing the Genealogy of a Southern Indiana Quilt Pattern(Indiana Genealogist, 2007-09) Klassen, TeriThis article discusses quilts in the Polk's Fancy pattern, an example of the red, green, and white classic floral quilt style. The pattern apparently originated in the Mexican American War (1846-48) era in southern Indiana.Item Humor, unlaughter, and boundary maintenance.(University of Illinois Press, 2009) Smith, MoiraSome joke performances are meant to elicit differential responses—laughter from some, and unlaughter from salient others—and so serve as powerful methods for heightening group boundaries. This article illustrates this thesis by analyzing audience responses to practical jokes and to the Muhammad cartoons that aroused worldwide controversy in 2006. To further make this case, I will delineate a theory of the audience for humor. Such a theory has heretofore been largely missing from both folklore and humor scholarship; instead, the lion’s share of scholarly attention has gone to the performers, with the audience’s role taken for granted. In boundary-heightening humor, the audience response is the subject of special attention, and it is interpreted in terms of contemporary notions about the importance of having a sense of humor and especially of being able to laugh at oneself.Item How Depression-Era Quiltmakers Constructed Domestic Space: An Interracial Processual Study(Midwestern Folklore, 2008) Klassen, TeriIn this article, I examine how quiltmaking contributed to the construction of home environments in the 1920s to 1940s. Drawing from oral history interviews with descendants of six black and two white quiltmakers, I argue that these low- and middle-income women enhanced their authority in the family and ordered domestic space through routine practices of making quilts primarily for everyday use. I posit the prominent spacetaking quality of quiltmaking as key to its effectiveness for these purposes. Thus emphasizing the process rather than product side of material culture studies, I argue that the capacity of quiltmaking to shape how inhabitants experience a household has been a significant factor in its long-term popularity in the United States.Item Representations of African American Quiltmaking: From Omission to High Art(American Folklore Society and the University of Illinois Press, 2009) Klassen, TeriAfrican American quiltmaking began to gain recognition as an expressive form distinct from European American quiltmaking in the countercultural climate of the 1970s. Representations of it since then have served to update the Eurocentric, patriotic image of quiltmaking in the United States with components of multiculturalism and cultural critique. These representations in turn caused tensions along the lines of class, race, gender, and scholarly discipline. This study shows the power of words and things when used together, as in museum exhibits, to affirm or challenge the existing social order.Item "Qâla al-Samaw'al ibn ¿Âdiyâ al-yahudiyy (The Jew, Al-Samaw'al Son-of ¿Âdiya Said: ... )" Conscientiousness and Fidelity as Heroic Qualities in Arab Traditions (The Jewish Example)(Folk Culture - Bahrain, 2012) El-Shamy, HasanWillingness to sacrifice one's own son for a sacred or noble cause is an established tradition in Semitic value systems. The most celebrated case within the sacred context is that of Patriarch Abraham and his son (Ismael/Isaac), while the example in the non-sacred context is that of the Arab chieftain al-Samaw'al "the Jew" and his son. In the latter case, the act of "sacrifice" is euphemistic. In both contexts, the consequences of actions by both patriarchs have constituted "shared" and far-reaching traditions among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. 2 This study treats the information related to al-Samaw'al in Arab sources as cultural phenomena rather than verified historical facts. The "Discussant" assigned by the symposium commented on this paper with one sentence: it treats al-Samaw'al as "the other" (that is: he is not a member of the society as a whole). However, in this regard we should remember that in the tribal Arab society, any person who did not belong to one's own blood-group (i.e., tribe) was "the other". It is in this sense that Samaw'al was viewed--in the same manner as Antar, Imru' al-Qays, al-'A¿shâ, etc.--and esteemed as noble "Arab" in spite of being "the other". The crux of discussion in the present paper, and the reason for holding this symposium is to explore what each of the three religions shares with "the other". If the quality of the "otherness" is negated by exclusion, then the essence of the foundation of this symposium is negated as well.Item Children Born from Eggs: African Magic Tales - Texts and Discussions by Sigrid Schmidt reviewed by Hasan El-Shamy(Indiana University Press, 2009-06-18) El-Shamy, HasanItem The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights reviewed by Hasan El-Shamy(Indiana University Press, 2010-12-08) El-Shamy, HasanItem Review of: Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights(Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, 2011-03-03) Jackson, Jason BairdItem The Traditional Structure of Sentiments in Mahfouz's Trillogy: A [Cognitive] Behavioristic Text Analysis(1976) El-Shamy, Hasan M.Item Belief Characters as Anthropomorphic Psychosocial Realities The Egyptian Case(1982) El-Shamy, Hasan M.Item Oral Traditional Tales and the Thousand Nights and a Night: The Demographic Factor(1990) El-Shamy, Hasan M.Item Mental Health in Traditional Culture: A Study of Preventive and Therapeutic Folk Practices in Egypt(1972) El-Shamy, Hasan M.Item Item Sentiment, Genre, and Tale Typology: Meaning in Middle Eastern and African Tales(1986) El-Shamy, Hasan M.Item From the Editor of Museum Anthropology(American Anthropologist (American Anthropological Association), 2008-12) Jackson, Jason BairdItem The Paradoxical Power of Endangerment: Traditional Native American Dance and Music in Eastern Oklahoma(World Literature Today, 2007-09) Jackson, Jason BairdItem Ethnography and Ethnographers in Museum-Community Partnerships(Practicing Anthropology [a journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology], 2000) Jackson, Jason BairdItem William C. Sturtevant and the History of Anthropology(History of Anthropology Newsletter, 2007-12) Jackson, Jason Baird