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Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies - The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen (Hardcover)
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Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies - The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen (Hardcover)
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Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen 'the most
famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.' Drawing on primary
sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal
letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who have
analyzed various components of Owen's multifaceted career,
historian Greg Olson offers the most complete account of her life
and work to date. He also offers a critical look at some of the
short stories Owen penned, sometimes under the name Julia Scott,
and discusses how the experience she gained as a fiction writer
helped lead her to a successful career in folklore. Olson begins
with an in-depth look at St. Joseph, Missouri, the place where Owen
lived most of her life. He explores the role that her grandparents
and parents had in transforming the small trading village into one
of the American West's most exciting boomtowns. He also examines
the family's position of affluence and the effect that the
devastation of the Civil War had on their family life and their
standing within the community. He describes the interaction of Owen
with her two younger sisters, both of whom had interesting and, for
women of the time, unconventional careers. Olson analyzes many of
the nineteenth-century theories, stereotypes, and popular beliefs
that influenced the work of Owen and many of her peers. By taking a
cross-disciplinary look at her works of fiction, poetry, folklore,
history, and anthropology, this volume sheds new light on elements
of Owen's career that have not previously been discussed in print.
Examples of the romance stories that Owen wrote for popular
magazines in the 1880's are identified and examined in the context
of the time in which Owen wrote them. This groundbreaking biography
shows that Owen was more than just a folklorist - she was a
nineteenth-century woman of many contradictions. She was an
independent woman of many interests who possessed a keen intellect
and a genuine interest in people and their stories. Specialists in
folklore, anthropology, women's studies, local and regional
history, and Missouriana will find much to like in this thoroughly
researched study.
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