Adult Workshop: Collecting Folklife in Your Own Backyard (Ages 16+)

Name: Adult Workshop: Collecting Folklife in Your Own Backyard (Ages 16+)
Start: 2024-07-25T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-25T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Morton Museum of Collierville History

Schedule

Thu Jul 25 2024 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Morton Museum of Collierville History | Collierville, TN

A variety of FREE workshops for ages 16+ will be offered at the Morton Museum of Collierville History this July. Registration is required. Reserve your seat at one, two, or all three adult summer workshops today by completing the registration form available on our website: www.colliervilletn.gov/summer2024/adultworkshops
Folklife is the knowledge, expressions, and ways of living passed down through cultural communities around the world. In this workshop, cultural anthropologist Tony Kail shares his experiences collecting folklife during his fieldwork in the Mid-South. Kail will share his work collecting oral traditions, beliefs and material culture among different communities in the state. Following the presentation, participants are invited to create their own Story Journal - a space to inscribe personal experiences that cultivate their personal folklife.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Tony Kail is a cultural anthropologist and writer who has been involved in folklife research for more than thirty years. Kail serves as curator of the Humboldt Historical Museum in Humboldt Tennessee and teaches in the Anthropology Department for Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of several books including “Fieldwork with the Saints: An Ethnographic Journey into Santeria in the American South” from AnthroFolk Research Associates (2024) and “A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers and Spirituals” from The History Press (2017).