Folklore Final Exam

Definitions: 

Assemblage - a collection of different things that comes together to create a meaningful and beautiful single unit

Body Art - Any purposeful, aesthetic modification of supplementation to the body

Henna - the dried and powdered leaves of the henna plant, used to temporarily dye the skin with designs

Costume - special dress that enables the expression of alternate identities in exceptional, extraordinary contexts

Dress - daily clothing worn to reflect one’s physical environment, social context, and as a personal marker

Coding - composing a message so that is makes sense to a chosen audience within a particular social/cultural context

Vernacular architecture - everyday buildings lived in by everyday people

Ballad - a sung narrative 

Gullah Geechee - descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo, and cotton plantations or the lower Atlantic coast

Foodways - the eating habits and culinary practices of people, region, and historical period

Cajuns - an ethnic group living in South Louisiana who are Acadian exiles - French-speakers from eastern Canada

People: 

Mark Hewitt - potter from England, moved to NC, combined salt and ash glaze, bought house in NC where there is good clay and pine wood for the kiln

Daniel Johnston - is a potter form NC who was an apprentice for Mark Hewitt, learned to make giant pots while in Asia

Florencio Morales - a gardener who is remembered for his famous yard decorations, decorated his yard for different holidays to represent who he was as a person, his religion, his heritage, and his beliefs

Don King - sheridan saddle maker who helped develop the “sheridan” style and opened his own saddle shop, he took traditional saddle making styles and mixed in his own variations on the flowers and the patterns to come up with the style, also won the NEA award for his saddles

Ellen Adair - becomes each new character whom she dress in costume for, becomes a whole new self as she takes on the role of that character and when she puts on the costume

Lewis Wheeler - changed his appearance for a role in no-man's-land, and noticed that his thuggish look, while well portrayed, changed how people viewed him in his everyday life as well

James Ingram - reenactor at colonial williamsburg, reenacts Gowan Pamphlet to represent the african americans who were not enslaved at the time who are not often talked about, he wants to educate people on apart of his own history

Terry Thon - reenactor at colonial williamsburg, wants to represent the poorer class as well as women who are less talked about during that time period, works as an old time basket weaver at colonial williamsburg

Jay Vogel - dressed as General Longstreet, a veteran so reenacting helps him connect and share some of his own war experiences, 

Frank Orlando - dressed as General Lee as a war reenactor for the Battle of Gettysburg, retired school teacher, takes pride in teaching the historical truth to those who are not familiar with it

Mary Jackson - sweetgrass basket weaver, passed down from generations, won the NEA award for her baskets

Ola Belle Reed - grew up in Ashe-county NC, grew up singing and playing music, had to make from the mountains as a teenager, played in a band with her brother, poor, sings about her beliefs and opinions on the world, sings bluegrass music, sings ballads