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Name
  
James Dow


Books
  
The Study of European Ethnology in Austria, Biographical Dictionary of Folklorists, German Folklore: A Handbook

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Education
  
University of Iowa (1966)

James R. Dow is a Professor Emeritus of German at Iowa State University with research interests in German Volkskunde (folklore), Old Order Amish of Kalona and Amana Colonists of Amana. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 for A study and grammar of the Cymbrian language. James has11 grandchildren Alysabeth, Byron, Christian, Daniel Buck, Katherine, Joseph and Jakob Dow, and Breslin, Brenden, Braylin Crose. He is married to Susan D. Dow.

Books

  • The Study of European Ethnology in Austria. Co-author Olaf Bockhorn. Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2004.
  • Wyoming folklore : Reminiscences, Folktales, beliefs, customs, and folk speech.by: Federal Writers' Project, James R. Dow (Editor), Susan D. Dow (Editor), Roger L. Welsch (Editor), James R. Dow (Introduction)
  • German Folklore : A Handbook
  • Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend by: Anthony S. Mercatante, James R. Dow
  • The Nazification of an Academic Discipline : Folklore in the Third Reich by: James R. Dow, Hannjost Lixfeld (Translator)
  • Folklore and Fascism : The Reich Institute for German "Volkskunde" by: Hannjost Lixfeld, James R. Dow
  • Languages and Lives : Essays in Honor of Werner Enninger by: James R. Dow (Editor), Michelle Wolff (Editor)
  • The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend by: Anthony S. Mercatante, James R. Dow, Michael R. Burgan
  • Focus on Bilingual Education - Language and Ethnicity and Ethnicity 2nd Language : Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman by: James Dow (Editor), Ofelia Garcia (Editor), David F. Marshall (Editor)

    • German Volkskunde : A Decade of Theoretical Confrontation, Debate, and Reorientation (1967-1977) by: James R. Dow, Hannjost Lixfeld (Editor), James R. Dow (Translator), Hannjost Lixfeld (Translator)

    References

    James R. Dow Wikipedia
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