Henry Glassie
American folklorist
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- Bachelors English University of Maryland, College Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry Glassie College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, has done fieldwork on five continents and written books on the full range of folkloristic interest, from drama, song, and story to craft, art, and architecture. Three of his books -- Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today -- were named among the "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. Glassie has won many awards for his work, including the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a distinguished career of humanistic scholarship. A film on his work, directed by Pat Collins and titled Henry Glassie: Field Work, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
Henry Glassie's Published Works
Published Works
- Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts (1975) (181)
- Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community (1982) (140)
- Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1969) (138)
- Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective (1966) (84)
- Passing the Time in Ballymenone (1982) (61)
- All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming. (1977) (36)
- Eighteenth-Century Cultural Process in Delaware Valley Folk Building (1972) (33)
- Turkish Traditional Art Today (1993) (26)
- Meaningful Things and Appropriate Myths: The Artifact's Place in American Studies (1978) (24)
- Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community@@@Irish Folk History: Texts from the North (1984) (24)
- The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art (1989) (22)
- The Stars of Ballymenone (2006) (18)
- The Pantheon Fairytale and Folklore Library@@@African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World@@@American Indian Myths and Legends@@@Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World@@@Irish Folktales@@@Arab Folktales (1989) (18)
- The Practice and Purpose of History (1994) (17)
- Folksongs And Their Makers (1979) (14)
- Art and life in Bangladesh (1997) (11)
- Folklore today : a Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson (1978) (11)
- The farm and the village (1969) (10)
- American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (1984) (9)
- The Potter's Art (2000) (9)
- “Take that Night Train to Selma”: An Excursion to the Outskirts of Scholarship (1968) (9)
- Forms upon the frontier : folklife and folk arts in the United States (1971) (7)
- The Appalachian log cabin (1963) (6)
- Passing the Time (1983) (6)
- A Life in the Field: Henry Glassie and the Study of Material Culture (2008) (6)
- Irish Folk History: Tales from the North (1982) (5)
- Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House (1969) (5)
- Ireland of the Proverb (1988) (5)
- Forms upon the Frontier: Folklife and Folk Arts in the United States (1970) (4)
- The Moral Lore of Folklore (1983) (4)
- A Guide for Collectors of Oral Traditions and Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania (1973) (4)
- Irish Folk Tales (1985) (4)
- A guide for collectors of folklore in Utah (1971) (3)
- American Material Culture and Folklife A Prologue and Dialogue (1985) (3)
- Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in Modern Brazil (2017) (3)
- Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America (2010) (2)
- The Stars of Ballymenone, New Edition (2016) (2)
- The Narrowing Gyre: A Review-Essay (1983) (2)
- Walking in the Parlor (1965) (2)
- History's Dark Places (1998) (2)
- Performance theory and the documentary act (2001) (1)
- War, Peace, and the Folklorist’s Mission (2014) (1)
- Prince Twins Seven-Seven: 1944–2011 (2012) (1)
- Irish Folk History: Texts from the North@@@Passing the Time in Ballymenone (1984) (1)
- In a time warp (2001) (1)
- Proceedings of Thematic Sessions of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (1975) (1)
- A Choctaw "Me All Face" Story (1964) (0)
- Daniel Johnston (2020) (0)
- Obituaries: Warren E. Roberts (1924-99) (2000) (0)
- The Raw, Frank, Funny Eid Parade (2013) (0)
- : Bread Baking in a Rural Household . D. P. Duvall, L. P. Greenhill. ; Central Pennsylvania Halloween Customs . D. P. Duvall, L. P. Greenhill, C. Conklin. (1974) (0)
- Review Essay: Virtuous Conventions: Thoughts on a Survey of Japanese Ceramics (2008) (0)
- Review: Captives' Mansion: An American Family Chronicle Covering Nine Generations and 200 Years in a Pennsylvania Rural Manor by S. R. Slaymaker, II (1974) (0)
- Book Reviews: Pennsylvania German Folk Art: An Interpretation. By John Joseph Stoudt. Revised edition. [Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, v. 28.] (1968) (0)
- Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina (2020) (0)
- Topography of Time Past (1982) (0)
- Proceedings of Thematic Sessions of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19-24 May 1976 (1976) (0)
- Through Honqui Eyes: 'The Spirit of Ethnography' Distilled (1975) (0)
- Keating Hero (2001) (0)
- Text and Icon in Religious Art (2014) (0)
- 6700: Folklore Theory and Methods (2008) (0)
- From the Book Review Editor (1971) (0)
- The Housing of Oglethorpe County, Georgia: 1790-1860 (1972) (0)
- Folklorist's Progress: A Brief Biography of Warren E. Roberts (1992) (0)
- Review of: Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday: The Songs and Life Story, Told in His Own Words, of John Maguire, Traditional Singer and Farmer from Co. Fermanagh, by Robin Morton (1974) (0)
- The Assuming Vendee (0)
- The Implications of Folkloristic Thought for Historic Zoning Ordinances (1971) (0)
- Conversation With Henry Glassie (2012) (0)
- The Capitol: Art and Architecture (2002) (0)
- The Project: (2020) (0)
- Reevaluation of a Thomas Cole Painting (1976) (0)
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