The reluctant folklorist: : Jon Y. Lee, Paul Radin, and the fieldwork process

• Autores: Anthony Bak Buccitelli
• Localización: The Journal of American Folklore, ISSN-e 1535-1882, Vol. 127, Nº. 506, 2014, págs. 400-424
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the early 1930s, the anthropologist Paul Radin hired Jon Lee to collect Chinese American folk narratives in Oakland's Chinatown. These were later published as The Golden Mountain: Chinese Tales Told in California. Despite being lead fieldworker for the project, Lee's contributions have been largely overlooked. This paper examines Lee's important folkloristic work and opens up a wider discussion about the role that professional aspirations play in shaping the field methodologies of folklorists.