Neighborliness and Decency, Witchcraft and Famine: Reflections on Community from Irish Folklore

Ray Cashman is Director of the Folklore Institute and Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is the author of Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community (2008) and Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border (2016). With Tom Mould and Pravina Shukla, he co-edited The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives (2011), and with Guy Beiner and Oona Frawley, he co-edits the “Irish Culture, Memory, and Place” book series at Indiana University Press. He is the past editor of the Journal of Folklore Research. His teaching and research interests include oral traditions and verbal art, performance studies, and the ethnography of communication, social memory and commemoration, and the politics of culture and tradition.