Vance Randolph

Vance Randolph

male, deceased (1980)
from Kansas, Missouri writer, Non-fiction writer, children's writer, folklore, American…Journal of American Folklore, AmericanFolkloreSociety, American Speech and Dialect Notes
Vance Randolph (February 23, 1892 - November 1, 1980) was a famous folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He has written...
Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons

female, deceased (1941)
Columbia University, Sociologist, Anthropologist, Columbia University alumni, Feminist, Native American…american anthropological association, American, AmericanFolkloreSociety, American Ethnological Society, The Journal of American Folklore
Elsie Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Pueblo an...
Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

male, 82 years old
linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, anthropological linguistics, Dell Hathaway Hymes, journal, Ph.D.…Linguistic Society of America, AmericanFolkloreSociety, Language in Society, american anthropological association, American
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with...

Bill Ellis

male, 59 years old
Lutheran, Luciferian, AmericanFolkloreSociety, conspiracy theories, Occultism, American Studies…American, folklore
Bill Ellis (born January 3, 1950) is an American folklorist. Educated at the University of Virginia (BA, 1972) and at Ohio State University (MA,...
William Wells Newell

William Wells Newell

male, deceased (1907)
Games and Songs of American Child, American, Journal of American Folklore, AmericanFolkloreSociety, Games and Songs of American Children, folk music
William Wells Newell (1839 - 1907) was an American folklorist, school teacher, minister and philosophy professor. Newell was born in Cambridge,...
Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas

female, deceased (1994)
Archaeologist, Old Europe, Old European Culture, Bronze Age, lithuanian, vilnius…AmericanFolkloreSociety
Marija Gimbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994) a Lithuanian-American archeologist, re...
Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

female, deceased (1923)
havana, Bureau of Education, ohio river, mississippi river, archaeological institute of america, Native American history…American, AmericanFolkloreSociety, Anthropological Society of Washington
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838, Havana - April 6, 1923, Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist. She studied the remains of Indian...
Frederic Ward Putnam

Frederic Ward Putnam

male, deceased (1915)
Harvard University, Anthropologist, Naturalist, Science writer, american anthropological association, American naturalist…American, AmericanFolkloreSociety
Frederic Ward Putnam was an American naturalist and anthropologist. He had little education, but became the student of Louis Agassiz at the Museum...
Roland Burrage Dixon

Roland Burrage Dixon

male, deceased (1934)
AmericanFolkloreSociety, American, professor, Anthropologist, Harvard University alumni, Science writer…American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, American Folk&
Roland Burrage Dixon (November 6, 1875-December 1934) was an American anthropologist, born at Worcester, Mass. In 1897 he graduated from Harvard...
Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes

male, deceased (2005)
death by myocardial infarction, American, folklore, Yale University alumni, Anthropologist, folklorist…Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University
Alan Dundes, (September 8 1935 - March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central...