Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

by Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor), Cynthia Fisher (Illustrator)

In this Texas Folklore Society publication there are essays on teaching folklore for students—“How I Define Folklore for My Students,” “Toward a Definition of Folk Culture,” “Beginning Teaching Folklore the Easy Way,” “Folklore Fieldwork on the Internet,” and others. Essays illustrating folklore are also included, such as “The Honored The Ritual of Police Burial,” “Gang Graffiti,” “Rail Some Are True,” “Dance Halls of East Texas,” “The Oil Field Camp,” “Tex-Mex Dialect or Gidget Goes to Acuna,” and more.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1997