Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
Henry H. Glassie (born in 1941 in Washington, D.C) received his B.A. in English and
Anthropology from Tulane University in 1964, his M.A. from the Cooperstown Program of
the State University of New York in fold culture in 1965, and his Ph.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania in folklore in 1969. During the course of his doctoral work
from 1967-1969, Glassie served as the State Folklorist of Pennsylvania which at the time
was the only state folklorist position in the United States. From 1970-1976, he served
as professor at Indiana University’s Folklore Institute, followed by a tenure at the
University of Pennsylvania from 1976-1988 where he served as professor and chair of the
department of Folklore and Folklife. In 1988, he returned to Indiana University’s
Folklore Institute where he served as a professor, Co-Director of the Turkish Studies
program, in addition to adjunct appointments in central Eurasian Studies, American
Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and India Studies. Glassie officially
retired from the university in May of 2008 with the title College Professor Emeritus of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
Glassie has published widely in the fields of material culture and vernacular
architecture. Among his books are
Passing the Time in
Ballymenone
(1982) which won the Chicago Folklore prize and the Haney Prize in
the Social Sciences;
Irish Folktales (1985);
The Spirit of Folk Art (1989);
Turkish
Traditional Art Today
(1993) which was included in the New York Times list of
notable books of the year and won the Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Assembly
of Turkish American Associations;
Art and Life in
Bangladesh
(1997);
Material Culture (1999);
Vernacular Architecture (2000) which won the Cummings Award
for the best book on North American Architecture;
The Stars of
Ballymenone
(2006); and most recently
Prince Twins
Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America
(2010) through
IU press.
Outside academia, he helped to organize the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival and the
Office of Folklife Programs, and served on the first Folk Arts panel of the National
Endowment for the Arts and as a consultant for outdoor museums such as Conner Prairie
Pioneer Settlement, Plimoth Plantation and Ulster-American Folk Park. He has also
curated exhibitions for the Museums of International Folk Art, the Indiana University
Art Museum and the National Museum of Bangladesh. He has served as president of the
Vernacular Architecture Forum, the American Folklore Society, and was appointed by
President Clinton to the National Council on the Humanities. He has received a Teaching
Excellence Award from Indiana University and prestigious lifetime achievement awards
from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the American Folklore Society
(AFS).
Glassie's wife, Pravina Shukla, is a Professor of Folklore at Indiana University.
Shukla was born in Norway to Indian parents. Raised in Brazil, she grew up speaking
Portuguese, Hindi, and later English after moving to California as a teenager. She
received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA
and PhD in Folklore from University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught classes
in folklore, fieldwork, material culture and museum studies at Indiana University.
Professor Shukla joined the faculty at IU in 2000 as an assistant professor of folklore,
and became an associate professor in 2006. She has worked at the Fowler Museum of
Cultural History, the LA Craft and Folk Art Museum, the American Museum of Natural
History in New York, and the Mathers Museum at Indiana University. She is the author of
numerous articles and books including
Sacred Art: Catholic Saints
and Candomblè Gods in Modern Brazil,
which she co-authored with Glassie.
The collection is arranged into four series: Biographical, Correspondence, Publications
and Lecture notes. Biographical, Publications, and Lecture Notes are organized
chronologically. Folders within correspondence are organized alphabetically.
The collection is organized into four series: Biographical, Correspondence, Publications
and Lecture notes.
Biographical (2006-2012) has been arranged chronologically and includes awards which
Glassie received, as well as his oral history materials
Correspondence (2001 - 2019) was grouped into three subseries – Colleagues, Former
Students and General - based off designations given at time of donation, with authors
listed within alphabetically. Exchanges within the subseries “Colleagues” notably
include exchanges with scholar Robert Brady Cochran II. Glassie has retained his
letters from English and Irish writers for the time being.
Arranged chronologically, Publications (1968-2019) are further organized into four
sub-series. The first, Monographs (1968-2019) includes drafts in handwritten and
typewritten form, galley and page proofs of Glassie’s books, in particular
Turkish Traditional Art Today, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Material
Culture, Vernacular Architecture,
and
The Stars of
Ballymenone
. The second and third sub-series of Articles (1977-2018) and
Research, Lectures and Reports sub-series (1983-2015) contains manuscript material and
occasional related correspondence. The fourth sub-series, Collaborative Publications
(2015-2018), includes manuscript material and related correspondence for works which
Glassie co-authored, most notably
Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and
Candomblè Gods in Modern Brazil,
written with his wife, Pravina Shukla.
The fourth series, Lectures Notes (1975-1999, undated) is maintained roughly in topical
order in the way that it was received.
For personal papers: Additional publications and research materials may be accessed in
IUScholarworks:
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/
Series:
Publications, 1968-2006,
undated
Subseries:
Monographs, 1968-2019,
undated
Box 1
Guide for Collectors of Oral Traditions and Folk
Cultural Material in Pennsylvania,
1968
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern
United States,
1969
Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History
of an Ulster Community,
1982
Irish Folktales,
Research, undated
(5 folders)
Box 2
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(3 folders)
The Spirit of Folk Art,
Handwritten Drafts, undated
Typed Drafts, undated
(3 folders)
Galley Proofs with Edits, undated
Turkish Traditional Art Today,
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(13 folders)
Layout Pages, undated
(3 folders)
Box 3
Layout Pages, undated
Spiral Bound Book Proof, 1993
(2 folders)
(See Oversized Box 11)
Bound Color Proof, 1993
Art and Life in Bangladesh,
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(6 folders)
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(6 folders)
Box 4
Final Typed Draft, undated
(4 folders)
Galley Proofs with Edits, undated
(4 folders)
Galley Proofs, undated
(4 folders)
Cover Design drafts, undated
Spiral bound Proof, 1997
Box 5
Color Proof, 1995
IU Press Publicity, 1997
Material Culture,
Chapter drafts, undated
“Material Culture”, undated
“One Life”, undated
“One Life,” Handwritten Draft, undated
(2 folders)
“The Potter’s Art," undated
(2 folders)
"Vernacular Architecture,"
undated
Page Proofs with Edits, undated
(3 folders)
Images, undated
Spiral Bound Book Proof, 1998
Logo, 1999
Color Printed Book Proof, 1999
The Potter’s Art,
Drafts, undated
(4 folders)
Images, undated
Box 6
Cover Design, undated
Color Book proof, 1999
Traditional Art of Bangladesh,
2000
(2 folders)
Vernacular Architecture,
“Vernacular Architecture” Handwritten Chapter Drafts, undated
(2 folders)
Handwritten Drafts, undated
Book Proof Draft, undated
March 2000
May 4, 2000
May 30, 2000
June 2000
Page Proofs, undated
Color Book Proof, undated
The Stars of Ballymenone,
Handwritten Drafts with Notes for Transcription, undated
(2 folders)
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(4 folders)
Box 7
Handwritten Drafts, undated
(18 folders)
Typed Drafts, ca.
2006
(5 folders)
Typed Drafts, ca.
2006
Box 8
(6 folders)
The Stars of Ballymenone, 2016 edition,
2016
"Afterword " to the 2016 Edition
of
The Stars of Ballymenone, 2016
Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a
Potter in North Carolina,
2019
First Draft, 2019
Handwritten
(2 folders)
Manuscript with Edits, undated
Typed and Handwritten
(2 folders)
Subseries:
Articles, 1977-2018
"Meaningful Things and Appropriate Myths: The
Artifact’s Place in American Studies,"
Prospects: An Annual of
American Cultural Studies, 1977
(3 folders)
A Museum of American Frontier Culture: A Proposal. New York:
Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster, 1978
"Folkloristic Study of the American Artifact:
Objects and Objectives,"
1983
(3 folders)
"Foreword,"
in Steven Ohrn, ed., Passing
Time and Tradition, 1984
"Vernacular Architecture and Society,"
1984
"Irish,"
in Dell Upton, ed., America’s
Architectural Roots, 1986
"Folklore and History,"
1987
"Introduction,"
Traditional Pottery in
Bangladesh, 1987
"Postmodernism,"
Folklore Forum,
1988
"Foreword,"
Discovering American Folk
life, 1989
"A Master of the Art of Carpet Repair: The Life
of Hagop Barin,"
Oriental Rug Review, 1989
"Skill,"
in
The Old
Traditional Way of Life: Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts,
1989
"Studying Material Culture Today,"
in
Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material
Culture, 1991
"Turkish Traditional Art Today,"
Santa Fe
Museum of International Folk Art, 1991
"Folklorist’s Progress: A Brief Biography of
Warren E. Roberts,"
Folklore Forum, 1992
"Epilogue: The Spirit of Swedish Folk
Art,"
in Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition is Change, 1994
"On Identity,"
Journal of American
Folklore, 1994
Box 9
"The Practice and Purpose of History,"
Journal of American History, 1994
(2 folders)
"Turkish Traditional Art Today,"
Indiana
University Art Museum, 1994
"Values in Clay,"
The Studio Potter 22:2
(1994) : 2-7.
"At Work in Bursa,"
in Fields of Folklore:
Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goldstein, 1995
"Tradition,"
Journal of American Folklore,
1995
(2 folders)
"Turkish Folk Art and the Search for
Meaning,"
1995
"Historic Preservation,"
BRI Newsletter,
1996
"Prof. Evans,"
Foreword, 1996
"The Word of God and the Song of the Soul:
Calligraphic Art in Modern Turkey,"
The American Muslim Council
Report, 1996
"Aesthetics,"
"Wall: Timber (Appalachian),"
"Ohio Valley,"
"South: Upland,"
"Appalachian,"
"German,"
"Scotch-Irish,"
"Valley of Virginia,"
in Encyclopedia of
Vernacular Architecture of the World, 1997
(2 folders)
"Foreword,"
in The Illustrated Buyer’s
Guide to Oriental Carpets, 1998
"History’s Dark Places,"
Distinguished
Lecturer Series - Bloomington: Indiana University Institute of Advanced
Studies, 1998
(2 folders)
"Communication in the Twenty-First
Century,"
Civilization, 1999
(2 folders)
"Elie Nadelman: Tango, c. 1919,"
in Frames
of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950: Works from the Whitney
Museum of Art, 1999
"Mastering the Arts,"
Cornucopia,
2000
"Style and Spirit in Representation,"
in
From Academic Art to Popular Pictures: Principles of Representation,
Reproduction, and Transformation, 2000
"Warren E. Roberts,"
Journal of American
Folklore, 2000
"Bengali Art in Metal,"
in Entre Beauce et
Arcadie: Facettes d’un Parcours Ethnologique: Etudes Offertes au Professeur
Jean-Claude Dupont, 2001
"The Builder’s Art,"
in Smithsonian
Folklife Festival, 2001
"Keating Hero,"
New Hibernia Review,
2001
"Mark Hewitt: Outside,"
Louise Wells
Cameron Art Museum, 2002
"Nature, Culture, and Cosmological
Interference,"
in Natur-Kultur: Volkskundliche Perspektiven auf
Mensch und Umwelt, 2001
(2 folders)
"Performance Theory and the Documentary
Act,"
Indian Folklife, 2001
(2 folders)
"Artists along the Silk Road,"
in The Silk
Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust, 2002
"Luovia Ratkaisuja Märkyyteen Ja
Kuivuuteen,"
in Vesi Vetää Puoleensa, 2002
"Mud and Mythic Vision: Hindu Sculpture in Modern
Bangladesh,"
in Myth: A New Symposium, 2002
Box 10
(2 folders)
"Pottery, Bangladesh,"
and
"Architecture, Bangladesh"
in South Asian
Folklore: An Encyclopedia, 2003
"The Rural Landscape,"
National Trust
Forum Journal, 2003
(2 folders)
"E. Estyn Evans: An Appreciation on the
Centennial of His Birth,"
Ulster Folklife, 2004
"William Hansen,"
Traditions, 2005
"Authorship in Oral Narrative, " in
Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary
Critical Perspectives, 2010-2012
"Historical Time and 'The Swad Chapel Song'" in Essays on
Lore, Literature and Language: Essays in Honour of Séamus Ó Catháin,
2010-2012
"The Irish Folklore Commission:
International Scholarship, National Purpose, Local Virtue, " in
Béaloideas, 2010
"Prince Twins Seven-Seven," African
Arts, 2011-2012
"War, Peace, and the Folklorists'
Mission," Journal of American Folklore, 2011-2014
"Historic Preservation, " in
Historic Preservation in Indiana: Essays from the Field, 2012-2013
"Foreword," in A Measure of the
Earth: The Cole Ware Collection of American Baskets, 2013
"The Irish Landscape, " Canadian
Journal of Irish Studies, 2013-2015
"Preface: Mapping the World of Banjara Lambani
Tradition,"
in Banjara Lambanis and Their Literature, 2013 .
"Architectural Vision in the Art of Winton
and Rose Eugène," in Place It/Face It: Pottery by Eugène, 2018
Photos Removed
Subseries:
Reviews, Lectures, Reports, 1983-2015,
undated
"Folk Art and Creativity,"
Washington
Meeting on Folk Art, Library of Congress, 1983
"The Convergence of Folklore Studies,
Anthropology and Oral History,"
1984
"Ireland of the Proverb,"
Journal of
American Folklore, 1989
"Home-making: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the
Conversion of Space into Place,"
1995
"Folklore, the Future, and Funding: A Report to
the Rockefeller Foundation,"
1999
"The Stars of Ballymenone: Stories, Songs and
Instrumental Music from the North of Ireland,"
CD-ROM Proposal,
2000
"Performance: Theory, History,
Documentation,"
2001
"Clay and Cosmos,"
Abstract, undated
"Cultural Landscapes,"
International
Conference on Monuments and Sites, 2002
"A Life of Learning," ACLS Charles
Homer Haskins Award Lecture, 2011
"Recording Folklore," The
International Folklore Conference, 2013-2015
"History as Action in Ulter,"
undated
"Islamic Art in the Modern World: Instance of
Turkish Ceramics,"
Abstract for Kuwait, undated
"A Preface on Purpose,"
undated
"Public Folklore (?)"
undated
Rough Proposal for Television Series, American Folklife, undated
"Turkey’s Ceramic Miracle,"
undated
"What is Art? A Folkloristic Perspective Across
Cultures,"
undated
Subseries:
Collaborative Publications, 2010-2019,
undated
Glassie, Murphy and Peach,
Olla Belle Reed
and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line,
2015
Meeting Olla Belle Reed,
Typed and handwritten Manuscripts
"Blue Ridge Mountain
Blues"
Handwritten Manuscript
"North"
Handwritten Manuscript
"Transition"
Handwritten Manuscript
Tracklists and Song Indexes
Glassie and Shukla,
Sacred Art: Catholic
Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil,
2016-2017
Chapter Drafts, Handwritten and Typed, 2016
"An Introduction"
"The Historical
Center"
"Modern Masters of the Sacred
Art"
"The Sculptor's
Story"
"Ibimirim Carvers in the
Sertão"
"Maragojipinho: Sacred Clay in
Bahia"
"Tracunhaém: Sacred Clay in
Pernambuco"
"Painting in
Olinda"
"Carving in
Cachoeira"
"Pelourinho"
Box 11
"Saints and
Orixás in Pelourinho"
"Smiths of the
Sacred"
"The Painter of
Orixás"
Typed Manuscripts, undated
(4 folders)
Endnotes Drafts, undated
Handwritten
Page Proofs with Edits, 1968-2019
(14 folders)
Cover Design, undated
Acknowledgement and Dedication Edits, undated
Images and Image Notes, 2017
Notes and Bibliography Proofs with Edits, 2017
Color Book Proof, 2017
(2 Folders)
Book Description and Reader Report, 2017
Woods and Glassie,
Borderlines,
2018
Typed Manuscript, undated
Manuscript Edits and Correspondence, 2018
"The Concept of Place" Chapter
Draft, undated
Typed and Handwritten
Correspondence, 2017-2018
Glassie, Handwritten Drafts, undated
Ben-Amos and Glassie, ed.,
Folklore Concepts:
Histories and Critiques,
undated
Box 12
Drafts, undated
Handwritten
Chapter Drafts, undated
Glassie, "The
Project"
"The Countours of the
Book"
Ben-Amos, "Foreword"
"The Idea of Folklore: An
Essay"
"The Encounter with Native Americans
and the Emergence of Folklore"
"Toward a Definition of Folklore in
Context"
"Analytical Categories and Ethnic
Genres"
"The Seven Strands of
Tradition: Varieties in Its Meaning in
American Folklore Studies"
"A History of Folklore Studies - Why
Do We Need It?"
"'Context' in Context"
"Two Benin
Storytellers"
"'Induced
Natural Context' in Context"
"The Name Is the
Thing"
"A Definition of Folklore: A
Personal Narrative"
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Series:
Lecture Notes, 1975-1999,
undated
A Cultural Setting for Houses in Bloomington, Bloomington Restoration
Talk, 1989
Box 12
Ohio Valley: Always a River, 1991
Folkloristic Study of Material Culture, undated
American Dream, undated
Conflict of Public and Private Opinion in Northern Ireland, undated
Turkish Art, San Antonio Talk, undated
F. Kniffen talk, undated
Thoughts on Folkloristic Ethnography, undated
Folklore in the Academy, ca.
1990
Estyn Evans, 1989
Artifact: Nature and Will, undated
Keynote Address for Virginia, undated
Culture, Folklore, Education, undated
Exploration, Speech for Wisconsin, 1992
Talk for Public Section, American Folklore Society, undated
Convergence of Folklore Studies, Anthology, and Oral History, undated
Folklore and Technology, 1994
Brown Talk for Geoff Moran, undated
Log Cabin Southern Houses, 1975
Craft Talk, undated
Philosophy of Planning, undated
Oral History, undated
American Landscape, undated
Preservation, undated
Plymouth House, undated
Houses as History, undated
Planning and Building the Ghost of a Home, undated
The Interpretation of Architecture as a Historic Source, undated
Unidentified Talk, undated
Folklore and Literature (Theories), undated
Braunton for the City, undated
Braunton, undated
Folklore and History, undated
Power of Land in Literature, undated
Oral History, undated
Ohio Valley, undated
Log Cabin as Symbol, undated
Talk for Charlottesville, undated
Landscapes as History, undated
Landscape and Houses, undated
Myth as a Way of Knowing, 1986
A Folklorist’s Work, undated
TAG Talk, undated
Decorative Arts, undated
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Science, History, Meaning, undated
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Indiana University- Rotary Club, undated
Interdisciplinary Research, Indiana State University, 1994
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Tom Ehrlich, University of Pennsylvania, undated
Public Education Talk, undated
On History, undated
Boston Talk, American Studies, undated
Humanities, Art, History, undated
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Nature of Folk Art, Oregon, undated
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Vernacular Architecture, Indiana Talk, undated
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Ohio Valley Landscape, 1988
History Making Landscape, undated
American Houses, undated
Vernacular Architecture, undated
Architecture, Delaware, undated
Vernacular Architecture, undated
Vernacular Architecture, 1981
Art and Architecture, undated
Historic Preservation, undated
(3 folders)
Folklore Studies, undated
Collecting, 1995
Kütahya and Acoma, American Folklore Society talk, 1992
Learning from Things: Materials as Meanings, undated
Folklore as a Means of Exploring Relations of Industrial Society and
Culture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, undated
God as Guest, undated
Folklore vs. Anthropology, Washington Anthropological Society,
undated
Future Directions for American Folklore, Indiana Talk, undated
Folklore and American Studies, undated
Bangladesh Pottery talk, American Folklore Society, undated
American Folklore society, 1980
Architecture Talk, American Folklore Society, undated
American Folk Art, American Folklore Society talk, 1987
Folk Literature, undated
Fieldwork, undated
Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, undated
Folklife, undated
Tradition, undated
Folklore and Tradition, New York talk, undated
Ceili Club Irish talk, undated
Ireland, undated
Sense of Place, Ballymenone, undated
Folk Architecture and Social Revolution (Ireland), undated
Irish Landscape, undated
Qualitative Methods (Ballymenone), undated
Evans lecture, Ireland, undated
Idea of Place, Ireland, undated
Ballymenone talk, undated
Irish talk, undated
Muslim Communities, undated
Turkish Art, 1995
Turkish Arts, Speech at Opening in Bloomington, undated
Turkish Folk Art, undated
Textile Arts of Turkey, undated
Sacred Space talk, undated
Turkish Talk, 1987
Turkish Carpets, 1990
Turkish Talk, Illinois, undated
Turkish Art, undated
Turkish Language Talk, undated
Turkish Art, Indiana University, undated
Turkish Pottery, undated
Rugs – Karagömleh, undated
Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, Assembly of Turkish American
Associations, 1995