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Austin E. and Alta S. Fife are the pioneering Utah folklorists for whom the Fife Folklore Archives,〔 http://library.usu.edu/folklo/FFAhistory.php 〕 the Fife Folklore Conference, and the Fife Honor Lecture are each named at Utah State University. This husband and wife duo〔 http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=1422 〕 dedicated much of their time for collecting and preserving the cultural expressions of the American West and Mormon folklore. The Fifes’ work has influenced not only the generations of folklorists who have tried to follow in their footsteps but also the lives of countless Utahans, who have enjoyed a richer cultural experience because of the many folk festivals and folklore programs inspired by the Fifes’ dedication and service. ==The Fifes: Research Partners== Called “the founders of Mormon folklore studies” by Eric A. Eliason,〔Eliason, Eric A. 2004. “J. Golden Kimball Narratives.” Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. Edited by David Stanley. Logan, Utah State University Press. 153–55.〕 Austin and Alta Fife were dedicated to the future of folkloristics in Utah (153). Barbara Lloyd explains that “Austin and Alta Fife . . . met at Utah State University. . . . () as a married couple, they began folklore research together in the late 1930s when they were living in California, where Austin was a graduate student at Stanford University, serving as research assistant to the distinguished professor of Hispanic-American folklore, Aurelio Espinosa, Sr.” (2004, 230).〔Lloyd, Barbara. 2004. “Lessons of Summer: The Fife Folklore Conference.” Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. Edited by David Stanley. Logan, Utah State University Press. 230–39.〕 Notably, the Fifes worked together as a team, an aspect of their folkloristic efforts that David Stanley〔 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/do/search/advanced?q=author%3A%22Stanley%22%20AND%20author%3A%22David%22 〕 identifies as one of the two items he finds “especially pertinent and interesting to the study and collection of Utah folklore” (2004, 1).〔Stanley, David. 2004. Preface. Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. Logan, Utah State University Press.〕 The other interesting item that Stanley mentions is an interview transcript of Alta, who describes her trip with Austin across the country following the “Mormon Trail” from Palmyra, New York, to Salt Lake City, Utah. Stanley explains that “the Fifes’ purpose on this journey was to collect not Mormon folklore but folklore about Mormons from those residents of the Midwest who still recounted tales about ‘when the Mormons were here’” (1).〔Stanley, David. 2004. Preface. Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. Logan, Utah State University Press.〕 In his essay focused on the Fifes, William A. Wilson describes their profound influence on folklore in Utah: :Austin and Alta Fife devoted much of their lives to interpreting the Mormon and Western culture that had produced them. Just as their parents and grandparents had helped pioneer the West, they broke new ground in American folklore scholarship—in the study of Mormon folklore, cowboy〔 http://library.usu.edu/folklo/folkarchive/cowboypoetry2.php 〕 and western folksong, and material folk culture—and charted a course others were to follow (2004, 41).〔Wilson, William A. 2004. “Austin and Alta Fife, Pioneer Folklorists.” Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. Edited by David Stanley. Logan, Utah State University Press. 41–48.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin E. and Alta S. Fife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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