GODDESS IN THE GREENWOOD: THe GIRLS OF CAMP KOCH

dc.contributor.advisorMcDowell, John H.en
dc.contributor.authorSchmadel, Fredericka Annen
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-16T21:12:35Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-16T21:12:35Zen
dc.date.issued2014-05en
dc.date.submitted2014en
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2014en
dc.description.abstractWorldview, myth, and the 1960's come together in a song, ritual, and legend corpus preserved in oral transmission, central to an Indiana Girl Scout camp's cultural production. As Levi-Strauss disciple Lee Drummond would term it, Camp Henry F. Koch formed the identities of a dozen or more successful women still in supportive contact fifty years later. Primitive camping as wilderness therapy moved the camp community into communion with the Goddess Natura. Arriving solo, for unit-based camping, each camper assumed the role of Vladimir Propp's mission-centered folktale heroine. The role of supernatural gift-giver, such as Baba Yaga, was the counselors' to play. A traditional camp song, "Magalena Hagalena," typifies the residual force -- archetype in the Jungian sense -- that elevated and ennobled the social and emotional lives of adolescent girls. One of them reported liberation from something resembling Asperger's syndrome.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/18381en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisher[Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana Universityen
dc.subjectfolktaleen
dc.subjectmythen
dc.subjectnature mysticismen
dc.subjectoutdoor educationen
dc.subjectspace and placeen
dc.subjectwilderness therapyen
dc.subject.classificationFolkloreen
dc.subject.classificationAmerican studiesen
dc.subject.classificationWomen's studiesen
dc.titleGODDESS IN THE GREENWOOD: THe GIRLS OF CAMP KOCHen
dc.typeDoctoral Dissertationen

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