Identifier
C596 (local)

Repository
Indiana University Archives

Date
1924 - 1980 (Inclusive dates)

Summary

Daniel J. Crowley was a folklorist with research and ethnographic interests in African and African diaspora communities. This collection consists of collected folktales Crowley had planned to use to create a tale-type index.

Creator and/or Contributor
Daniel J. Crowley (creator)

Scope and Content Note

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of collected folktales Crowley had planned to use to create a tale-type index. The files appear to be arranged by informant's surname. The papers in this collection contain animal tales, etiological tales, trickster tales, and supernatural tales. All files are undated but likely span 1924-1980

Administrative/Biographical History Element

Biographical Note

Daniel J. Crowley (1921-1998) was an eminent scholar of folklore, anthropology, and art history. Having served as professor of anthropology and art history for over thirty years at the University California, Crowley's contributions to the field of folklore, anthropology, art history are chronicled in his publications that include four books and over 350 articles and reviews. Professor Crowley's monograph I Could Talk Old-Story Good; Creativity in Bahamian Folklore is a classic example of a performance-centered folkloristic ethnography

While his fieldwork spanned Western Europe, South America, and Polynesia, Crowley was specifically interested in African and African diaspora communities, with a concentration in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Crowley's collections of folktales show a breadth of traditional tales from the Americas and Africa

System of Arrangement

Arrangement

Collection is arranged in one series: Research files

Conditions Governing Access

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required

Related Archival Materials

Related Material

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photographs Database

Conditions Governing Access

Usage Restrictions

Copyright interests for this collection have not been transferred to the Trustees of Indiana University. For more information, contact the Indiana University Archivist

Custodial History

Provenance

This collection was transferred from Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology to the University Archives in 2014 to become part of the Folklore Archives

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquisition Information

Accession 2014/087

General Note

Processing Information

Processed by Jesse Fivecoate

Completed in 2015

Extent
8.2 (cubic feet)
9 (boxes)

Language
English (Languages)
French (Languages)

Other Subject Headings
Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-1998 --Archives (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folklorists --United States --History --20th century --Sources (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Tales --Africa (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))

Preferred Citation
[Item], Daniel J. Crowley research files, Collection C596, Office of University Archives and Records Management, Indiana University, Bloomington

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