Comments on: Vale Dell Hymes http://savageminds.org/2009/11/17/vale-dell-hymes/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Jackson http://savageminds.org/2009/11/17/vale-dell-hymes/comment-page-1/#comment-625321 Jason Jackson Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:44:04 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2902#comment-625321 Dear Robert, Please accept my condolences on the your loss of your father. I only met your him in person once (during one of his visits back to Indiana University in the 1990s), but his work and life were inspirational and a great many of his colleagues are mourning his passing. I have just tested it and it seems that one must subscribe to the Publore list in order gain access to its online archives. The listserv lives on computers at the University of New Mexico. A Google search on "publore unm.edu" should take you right to it, but I would be very happy to consult the postings there, save them into a PDF document, and send them to you by email. Just email me at my Indiana University email address and I will send them in a reply to you. It is customary each year at the American Folklore Society meetings for a member of the Society to deliver a memorial statement in honor of each member who has passed during the preceding year. This is the main business of the business meeting. I am certain that such a statement will be prepared and read at the next AFS meetings in Nashville next fall. I would suggest that you get in contact with the AFS's executive director Tim Lloyd (contact info can be found on the AFS website) so that he can arrange for this statement to be sent to you after it is delivered next fall. These statements are always very moving. Many people's thoughts are with your family. I know that the events planned for the AAA meetings this year will be very meaningful. On behalf of his friends and colleagues here at Indiana, warm wishes. Jason Dear Robert,

Please accept my condolences on the your loss of your father. I only met your him in person once (during one of his visits back to Indiana University in the 1990s), but his work and life were inspirational and a great many of his colleagues are mourning his passing.

I have just tested it and it seems that one must subscribe to the Publore list in order gain access to its online archives. The listserv lives on computers at the University of New Mexico. A Google search on “publore unm.edu” should take you right to it, but I would be very happy to consult the postings there, save them into a PDF document, and send them to you by email. Just email me at my Indiana University email address and I will send them in a reply to you.

It is customary each year at the American Folklore Society meetings for a member of the Society to deliver a memorial statement in honor of each member who has passed during the preceding year. This is the main business of the business meeting. I am certain that such a statement will be prepared and read at the next AFS meetings in Nashville next fall. I would suggest that you get in contact with the AFS’s executive director Tim Lloyd (contact info can be found on the AFS website) so that he can arrange for this statement to be sent to you after it is delivered next fall. These statements are always very moving.

Many people’s thoughts are with your family. I know that the events planned for the AAA meetings this year will be very meaningful.

On behalf of his friends and colleagues here at Indiana, warm wishes.

Jason

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]]> By: Robert Hymes http://savageminds.org/2009/11/17/vale-dell-hymes/comment-page-1/#comment-624804 Robert Hymes Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:44:02 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2902#comment-624804 Professor Jackson, can you tell me how to access the Publore archive? I'm trying to bring together all the obituaries and remembrances of my father at least on my own hard drive. Professor Jackson, can you tell me how to access the Publore archive? I’m trying to bring together all the obituaries and remembrances of my father at least on my own hard drive.

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]]> By: Jason Jackson http://savageminds.org/2009/11/17/vale-dell-hymes/comment-page-1/#comment-624782 Jason Jackson Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:29 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2902#comment-624782 There is a rich and moving set of remembrances about Dell Hymes gathering on the Publore (ie. Public Folklore) listserv. I wish that the folklorists, linguists, and anthropologists were remembering him in a central place rather than in several isolated conversations. His work aimed to bring these fields together. Especially moving in the Publore discussions are firsthand accounts by former teaching assistants of his teaching style and techniques, which are quite remarkable as presented. The Publore archive can be gotten to online, but it is not as easy as a blog. There is a rich and moving set of remembrances about Dell Hymes gathering on the Publore (ie. Public Folklore) listserv. I wish that the folklorists, linguists, and anthropologists were remembering him in a central place rather than in several isolated conversations. His work aimed to bring these fields together. Especially moving in the Publore discussions are firsthand accounts by former teaching assistants of his teaching style and techniques, which are quite remarkable as presented. The Publore archive can be gotten to online, but it is not as easy as a blog.

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