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Patricia Sawin

Anthropology

#1859

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#2410

Historical Rank

#776

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Patricia Sawin's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Patricia Elizabeth Sawin is an American folklorist who focuses her research and teaching on informal narrative, festival, folklore theory, and the culture of adoptive families. She is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she coordinates the MA program in Folklore. She is a member of the executive board of the American Folklore Society.

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Patricia Sawin's Published Works

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Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (1991) (987)
A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics In an "Other" America:A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics In an "Other" America. (1998) (90)
Ethical responsibility in feminist research: challenging ourselves to do activist research with women in poverty (2009) (37)
Performance at the Nexus of Gender, Power, and Desire: Reconsidering Bauman's Verbal Art from the Perspective of Gendered Subjectivity as Performance (2002) (37)
Listening For A Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories (2004) (29)
Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience (1992) (29)
“Right here is a good Christian lady”: Reported speech in personal narratives (1992) (15)
Lonnrot's Brainchildren : The Representation of Women in Finland's Kalevala in Feminist Revisions in Folklore Studies. (1988) (6)
Transparent Masks: The Ideology and Practice of Disguise in Contemporary Cajun Mardi Gras (2001) (6)
Listening for a life (2004) (4)
Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives (2017) (2)
The World of the Kalevala: Essays in Celebration of the 150 Year Jubilee of the Publication of the Finnish National Epic (1991) (2)
Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis (2014) (1)
"Every kid is where they're supposed to be, and it's a miracle": Family Formation Stories among Adoptive Families (2017) (1)
Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border by Ray Cashman (review) (2018) (0)
Contributors (2006) (0)
Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: (2020) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Patricia Sawin Interview (2011) (0)
REVIEW: Amy Shuman.OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES: ENTITLEMENT CLAIMS AND THE CRITIQUE OF EMPATHY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. (2006) (0)
Inscribing morality on the landscape : deviant mountain women in Bessie Eldreth's ghost stories (1995) (0)
Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy (review) (2006) (0)
Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy (2006) (0)
Anita Puckett, Seldom ask, never tell: Labor and discourse in Appalachia. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 309. Hb $85.00. (2002) (0)
M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Folklore at the University of Texas at Austin (1985) (0)
On the Mall: Presenting Maroon Tradition‐Bearers at the 1992 Festival of American Folklife. RICHARD PRICE and SALLY PRICE (1996) (0)
Pauline GREENHILL, Ethnicity in the Mainstream: Three Studies of English Canadian Culture in Ontario, (Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994, viii + 193 p., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-7735-1171-3, $34.95) (1995) (0)
Teaching About Adoption as an Anti-hegemonic and Anti-racist Effort: A View from American Studies (2021) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)

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