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Internationally known folklore scholar Henry H. Glassie III, born March 24, 1941, received his B.A. in English and Anthropology from Tulane University (1964), an M.A. in Folk Culture from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York at Oneonta (1965), and a doctorate in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania (1969). During the period of his doctoral work, he was the State Folklorist of Pennsylvania and Director of the Ethnic Culture Survey (1967–1969) for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. He taught at Indiana University’s Folklore Institute (1970–1976) before returning to Penn as Chairman of the Department of Folklore and Folklife (1976–1988) and coming back to Indiana as College Professor of Folklore (1988–2009). Glassie also served as Codirector of Turkish Studies and held adjunct appointments in Central Eurasian Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and American Studies, and is now Emeritus...
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Glassie, H.H. 1969. Pattern in the material folk culture of the eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- 1975. Folk housing in middle Virginia: a structural analysis of historic artifacts. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
- 1993. Turkish traditional art today. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 1997. Art and life in Bangladesh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 1999a. Material culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 1999b. The potters art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2000a. Vernacular architecture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2000b. Contemporary traditional art of Bangladesh. Dhaka: Bangladesh National Museum.
- 2010. Prince Twins Seven-Seven: his art, his life in Nigeria, his exile in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Further Reading
Glassie, H.H. 1982a. Passing the time in Ballymenone: culture and history of an Ulster community. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- 1982b. Irish folk history: texts from the north. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; reprinted 1908.
- 1985. Irish folktales. New York: Pantheon.
- 1989. The spirit of folk art: the Girard collection at the Museum of International Folk Art. New York: Abrams.
- 2006. The stars of Ballymenone. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Glassie, H.H. & F. Mahmud. (ed.) 2007. Living traditions. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
Glassie, H.H. & T. Takahara. In press. Lions of clay: the tradition of figurative ceramics in contemporary Japan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Curriculum vitae: http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/people/documents/Glassie%20-%20CV.pdf.
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Kolb, C.C. (2014). Glassie III, Henry H.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1750
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