Don Yoder

Don Yoder (August 27, 1921 – August 11, 2015) was an American folklorist specializing in the study of Pennsylvania Dutch folk life who wrote at least 15 books on the subject.[1] He was a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3] He specialized in religious folklife. He is known for his teaching, field trips, recording, lectures, and books. He also co-founded a folk festival in Pennsylvania.[4]

Yoder was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania.[5] He graduated with a B.A. in history from Franklin and Marshall College in 1942. He received a Ph.D in American church history from University of Chicago in 1947.

Taught at Union Theological Seminary, Muhlenberg College, and Franklin and Marshall College before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty.[6] He is a fellow and former president of the American Folklore Society.[6]

He has written about folklofe studies.[7] He co-founded the Pennsylvania Folklife Society in 1949.[1] In 1951 he was scheduled to lead a 46-day tour of Europe offered through Franklin and Marshall College.[8]

An annual lecture at the American Folklore Society named in his honor as well as a graduate award.[9]

The Folk Cultural Approach of study is associated with Yoder.[10] The University of North Carolina has a Don Yoder Collection of American Hymnody.[11]

References
  1. "Best Bets". poconorecord.com.
  2. https://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/memoriam/Yoder.html
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=2MdLAQAAMAAJ&q=don+yoder+folk&dq=don+yoder+folk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigprrFtovoAhUPTKwKHYR_CJo4ChDoATAGegQICBAC
  4. https://www.berksmontnews.com/news/a-look-back-in-history-remembering-dr-don-yoder-co/article_289cb3d8-f777-5ec1-83fb-3f15a42baff8.html
  5. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/obituaries/20150818_Don_Yoder__93__professor_of_folk_lore_at_University_of_Pennsylania.html
  6. 2006 Don Yoder Lecture Milwaukee Wisconsin
  7. https://www.ursinus.edu/live/files/436-the-folklife-studies-movement-by-don-yoder
  8. "History News". American Association for State and Local History. March 8, 1951 – via Google Books.
  9. "Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section - American Folklore Society". www.afsnet.org.
  10. "Major Themes in African Literature". AP Express Publishers. March 8, 2000 – via Google Books.
  11. Yoder, Don (March 8, 1990). "Discovering American Folklife: Studies in Ethnic, Religious, and Regional Culture". UMI Research Press – via Google Books.

Bibliography
  • American Folklife (2014)[1]
  • The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press (2005)
  • Groundhog Day (2003)[2]
  • Hex Signs: Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Symbols & Their Meaning by Don Yoder and Thomas E. Graves (2000)
  • The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig; a Pennsylvania German Emblem Book Hudson Hulls Press (1990)
  • Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1980
  • Folklife Studies in American Scholarship (1976)
  • "Folk Cookery" in the Folklore and Folklife anthology compiled by Richard Dorson (1972)
  • Foreword to Folk Cukture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina (1968)[3]
  • Pennsylvania Spirituals (1961)[4]
  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_aV0BQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=don+yoder+folk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicpZyNtYvoAhVrg3IEHRW2C3AQ6AEwCXoECAcQAg
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=eFKO9FKPjOwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=don+yoder+folk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicpZyNtYvoAhVrg3IEHRW2C3AQ6AEwAXoECAYQAg
  3. Burkett, Eva Mae (March 8, 1978). "American English Dialects in Literature". Scarecrow Press – via Google Books.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=knSfAAAAMAAJ&q=don+yoder+folk&dq=don+yoder+folk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicpZyNtYvoAhVrg3IEHRW2C3AQ6AEwBHoECAUQAg
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