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Documenting Community Gardens in DC National Parks
A Field School for Cultural Documentation
Summer Session A
May 13-June 17, 2024
Course Content
This intensive course will offer hands-on ethnographic training for beginners in the documentation of local cultural resources, the preservation of...
Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...
Dr. Mark Helmsing is an assistant professor in Mason's College of Education & Human Development's Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE) Ph.D. program; Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning (ASTL) M.Ed. program; and Secondary Education (SEED) M.Ed. program. Dr. Helmsing is also an affiliate fa...
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
If you found yourself wandering the National Mall this summer during the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, you would have seen some familiar faces from the Mason Folklore community. The 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival presented themes on Earth Optimism and the United Arab Emirates. The festiv...
Folklore is the study of human creativity within specific cultural and social contexts. Folklorists use ethnographic methods to study tradition. Folklorists study material culture, festivity, music, narratives, verbal art, rituals, foodways, and other expressive forms. Folklore is consistently being ...