Dublin Seminar

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1983. 

Essays on folk, vernacular, and popular speech in the American Northeast and the Eastern Seaboard. Regional dialects, historical pronunciation and idiom, linguistic geography, methodological and source studies. Sample dialect reconstruction. 144 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1987. 

The use of early American inventories and other probate documents by cultural, economic, and social historians and by museum curators. Essays on method; studies of architecture, landscape, domestic life, literacy, clothing, and economic history. Bibliography. 184 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1982. 

A collection of papers on early American diet, food preparation, and cooking. Documentary studies; archaeological, architectural, and artifactual perspectives; kitchen restorations; living museum interpretations. 148 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1984. 

Itinerant arts and professions in the American Northeast before 1850. Essays on psalmodists, traveling lecturers, entertainments, early circus troupes, profile artists, and itinerant portrait painters. 256 pp. Checklists, bibliography, illustrations, maps, graphs. (Double issue.)  Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1990. 

The evolution of traditional, nonacademic, and popular cures and medical practices in New England and contiguous portions of the American Northeast before 1850. Native American and oral healing traditions; colonial medicine; itinerants, proselytizers, and popularizers; Shaker medicine; and the transition to early professional practices. Bibliography. 200 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings for 1977. 

Site reports, panel discussions on community participation and cultural resource legislation. Urban archaeology, contact period archaeology, military sites archaeology, industrial archaeology, survey and commentary. 160 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, maps.    Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1996. 

Music as performed in public settings in the region during the first three hundred years of its history. Fourteen essays on social dance, schools, theatrical music, fraternal and military music, ballads, singing schools, psalmody, bands, and folk instruments. Bibliography, music examples, and illustrations. 208 pp. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1993. 

Farm animals, wildlife, domestic pets, and animal lore in New England and its adjacent regions. Essays on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fish and game, animal control, and horses and livestock; animal husbandry and household pets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; gaming birds and exhibition animals. Historic re-creation of farm animals. Animals in Native American legends. Bibliography. 216 pp. Illustrations, tables. Click here to view Table of Contents.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1994. 

Arts of portraiture in the early colonies; New England portrait and miniature painters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; imaging and reproduction technologies before 1850; studies of gender, iconography, and aesthetics; portrait making in the era of daguerreotypes and photographs. Bibliography, appendices. 288 pp. 95 halftone illustrations. Click here to view Table of Contents.