Abstract
During the Great Depression, while employed on various projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), I became a self-taught collector ofchildlore and folksong texts. As a part-time graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I learned about studying folklore in its cultural context and how to collect songs with recording machines. The high point ofmy fieldwork experience came when I toured the South to record folksongs for the WPA and the Library ofCongress. Later, as a graduate student at Indiana University, I was introduced to international studies in folklore, with emphasis on the folktale. Field trips to collect folk narratives, particularly in New Jersey and New York, produced several hundred folktales, most of which I wrote down from dictation. My
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