Folk Crafts - Reading List

“Ananias Hensel and His Furniture: Cabinetmaking in Southern Indiana. Midwest Journal of Language and Folklore 9, no. 2 (1983), 69-122.

“Folk Crafts” In Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972: 233-252. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 57-74.

“The Folklife Research Approach to Textiles.” Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 21-27.

“The Green Tree Hotel: A Problem in the Study of Ethnic Architecture. Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 15/3 (1971): 105-121.

“Indiana Plane Makers.” Midwestern Folklore 18 (1992): 5-38. 

“Investigating the Tree-Stump Tombstone in Indiana.” With Roger L. Welsch and Michael Owen Jones. In America Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue. Ed. Simon J. Bronner. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1985, 133-53. 

“Notes on the Production of Rustic Monuments in the Limestone Belt of Indiana.” Markers: Annual Journal of the Association of Gravestone Studies 7 (1990): 172-193.

“Planemaking in the United States: The Cartography of a Craft.” Material Culture 18, no. 3 (1986): 167-185. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 205-225.

“The Sincerest Form of Flattery.” Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983: 145-161.

“Social Customs and the Crafts: A Note.” Kentucky Folklore Record: A Regional Journal of Folklore and Folklife 23 (1977): 72-78. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 125-131.

“Tombstones in Scotland and Indiana.” Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies 23 (1984): 97-104.

“Tools on Tombstones: Some Indiana Examples.” Pioneer America 10, no. 1 (1978): 107-111. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 133-144.

“Traditional Tools as Symbols: Some Examples from Indiana Tombstones.” Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 12, no. 1 (1980): 54-63.

“Turpin Chairs and the Turpin Family: Chairmaking in Southern Indiana.” Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 7. no. 2 (1981): 57-106. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 75-123.