Bess lomax hawes
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Now you start to pay back.” (excerpt taken from Public Folkore, edited by Robert Baron and Nicholas R.
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And it’s a place where old ladies actually think that people who say they are interested in what they know really are interested, and issues like course requirements and semesters and quarters are really irrelevant. It’s a place where real actions have real results, where real people have real feelings as well as real information. “My dear young man,” Bess responded, “welcome to the grown-up world. That old lady lives on my block and every night when I come home, she runs out on the porch and says, ‘Hey boy, I just remembered another one!’ I keep trying to explain to her that my project is all finished, but she just won’t stop, and I’m starting to go up the alley when I go home just so I won’t run into her.”
#BESS LOMAX HAWES HOW TO#
What you didn’t teach me was how to stop collecting. By semester’s end he complained, “You taught me all about how to collect, Mrs. Addressing the American Folklore Society at the 1988 Centennial Meetings, Bess Lomax Hawes told a story about doing fieldwork, the sine qua non of the folklore profession. When she was teaching years ago, a student of hers had done an excellent term paper based on some folk curing beliefs which he had collected from an old lady in his neighborhood.