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New York Folklore Society
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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. 9, Nos. 3-4, Winter 1983
Special Issue in Honor of Rossell Hope Robbins
CONTENTS

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Tribute to Rossell Hope Robbins Allen Walker Reed 1

An Accessible Aesthetic: The Role of Folk Arts and the Folk Artist in the Curriculum
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett		 9


The Oldest Profession Scores Again: Storytelling in the Training of Social Workers		 Lenora Greenbaum 19

John Allison: The Collector as Folk Artist
Susan Rhodes Slyman		 27

Rethinking 'Revival' of American Ethnic Music		 Mark Slobin 37

Peace and the Potlatch: Warfare and Status Among the Kwakiutl		 A. H. Walle 45

Snakelore Motifs in the Writing of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and Other Colonial Writers		 Richard M. Hurst 55

Contributors		   99


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