Beschreibung:
What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ethnographic work?
Preface1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of "Empathy" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Koji Kato5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom BrañaConclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and "Folklife's First Responders," by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan