American Folklore Society, Lindahl
Lindahl has written this to a colleague in the AFS:
What is important to me is 1) Lindahl thinks I have something to offer the AFS annual meeting, and I should prepare some paper on this (I regret not teaching more 1303 at UH to continue this ethnography project and I feel that CL is embittered because of my decision) and that 2) he is trying to lure me into folklore. I can't make that change -- I'm committed to R/C and feel that I'll have a better chance of employment with that. But I am interested in folklore, and wish to somehow pursue it.
A QUESTION ON SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT: I hope that we have a chance to talk about this during the very busy weekend approaching, but I thought I'd broach it now. IF Teagle money will partially fund our AFS trips this fall, would it be cricket for me to delegate my $ to my graduate student, Bruce Martin, who is teaching the freshman version, the tougher version, of the Documenting Community Culture that I'm pioneering for the Teagle Project? He would give a paper there, maybe in combination with ours, but maybe a separate paper as well. I'm trying to lure him into folklore. Just thought I'd ask.The reality is that there is no money, or very little.
What is important to me is 1) Lindahl thinks I have something to offer the AFS annual meeting, and I should prepare some paper on this (I regret not teaching more 1303 at UH to continue this ethnography project and I feel that CL is embittered because of my decision) and that 2) he is trying to lure me into folklore. I can't make that change -- I'm committed to R/C and feel that I'll have a better chance of employment with that. But I am interested in folklore, and wish to somehow pursue it.