Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

Heiner Flassbeck, geboren 1950, befasst sich seit Jahrzehnten intensiv mit Wirtschafts- und Währungsfragen. Er war 1998/1999 Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium der Finanzen, wo er sich für eine effektivere Regulierung der Finanzmärkte einsetzte. Seit 2003 ist er Chefvolkswirt der Welthandels- und Entwicklungskonferenz der Vereinten Nationen (UNCTAD).

Patricia Sawin is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is Vice President Emerita and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is author of American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent and (with Isaac Jack Lévy)

Ray Cashman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University.

A Most Valuable Medium brings an exquisitely tuned analytical ear to a rich collection of understudied but foundational media performances. Richard Bauman's seminal approach to verbal performance sheds new light on commercial recordings at the dawn of modern media, providing a model of historically specific intermedial scholarship and producing a cornucopia of insights about how sales pitches, political oratory, storytelling, and sermons were adapted for the phonograph. A most valuable

This welcome collection brings into clear relief just how foundational Dan Ben-Amos's writings have been to modern folklore thought. His complementary efforts at elucidating the history of the discipline and at charting new directions for the future, brought conveniently together in this volume, forge a powerful intellectual synthesis that will stand as a model for years to come.

With over 200 full-color photographs of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.