Joseph Médard Carrière
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Academic background
One of his specialisms was folkloreFolklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
, and he taught for many years at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
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Carrière's papers are lodged in the archives of the University of Laval.
Recent interest in his work
Some of his more well-known French transcription work, which cites the storytelling of Joseph GroulxJoseph Groulx
Joseph Groulx c.1884-? was purportedly a Franco-Ontarian storyteller from Tecumseh, Ontario, an area of Southwestern Ontario with a small, French-speaking minority.-Claimed significance of Groulx's work:...
, of Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812...
, has been recently edited in:
- Donald Deschênes & Marcel Bénéteau, Contes du Détroit, Éditions Prise de parole, 2005.