Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and has carried out folklore research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the other islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean. He is the author of Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Stars and Keys (IUP 2007), a collection of folktale translations from the Indian Ocean islands.

• ForewordMichael Dylan Foster and Ray CashmanFolkloristics in the Twenty-First CenturyAlan DundesIntroductionAmerica's Antitheoretical FolkloristicsLee HaringThe Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand and Local Theory in FolkloristicsGary Alan FineWhat('s) Theory?Margaret A. MillsThe Philology of the VernacularRichard BaumanHumble TheoryDorothy NoyesGrand Theory, Nationalism, and American FolkloreJohn W. RobertsThere is No Grand Theory in Germany, and for Good ReasonJames R. DowResponsesWhat Theory IsNewton GarverWeak Theory in an Unfinished WorldKathleen Stewart"Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand TheoryKirin NarayanDisciplining FolkloristicsCharles L. BriggsAfterwordsReflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual BallastChad Edward ButerbaughTen Years AfterLee Haring

Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and has carried out folklore research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the other islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean. He is the author of Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Stars and Keys (IUP 2007), a collection of folktale translations from the Indian Ocean islands.

• ForewordMichael Dylan Foster and Ray CashmanFolkloristics in the Twenty-First CenturyAlan DundesIntroductionAmerica's Antitheoretical FolkloristicsLee HaringThe Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand and Local Theory in FolkloristicsGary Alan FineWhat('s) Theory?Margaret A. MillsThe Philology of the VernacularRichard BaumanHumble TheoryDorothy NoyesGrand Theory, Nationalism, and American FolkloreJohn W. RobertsThere is No Grand Theory in Germany, and for Good ReasonJames R. DowResponsesWhat Theory IsNewton GarverWeak Theory in an Unfinished WorldKathleen Stewart"Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand TheoryKirin NarayanDisciplining FolkloristicsCharles L. BriggsAfterwordsReflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual BallastChad Edward ButerbaughTen Years AfterLee Haring

Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and has carried out folklore research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the other islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean. He is the author of Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Stars and Keys (IUP 2007), a collection of folktale translations from the Indian Ocean islands.

• ForewordMichael Dylan Foster and Ray CashmanFolkloristics in the Twenty-First CenturyAlan DundesIntroductionAmerica's Antitheoretical FolkloristicsLee HaringThe Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand and Local Theory in FolkloristicsGary Alan FineWhat('s) Theory?Margaret A. MillsThe Philology of the VernacularRichard BaumanHumble TheoryDorothy NoyesGrand Theory, Nationalism, and American FolkloreJohn W. RobertsThere is No Grand Theory in Germany, and for Good ReasonJames R. DowResponsesWhat Theory IsNewton GarverWeak Theory in an Unfinished WorldKathleen Stewart"Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand TheoryKirin NarayanDisciplining FolkloristicsCharles L. BriggsAfterwordsReflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual BallastChad Edward ButerbaughTen Years AfterLee Haring