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English
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"Rather Out of the Center of Things" : Contributions of Alta Fife to American Folklore Scholarship
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Western Folklore
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Spring 2002
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61
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no.1
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43-62
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An analysis of the contributions Alta Fife, the folklorist and contributor to the Fife Mormon and Fife American collections that are the basis of the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University. Although she rarely received a salary for her folklore collecting, her work is a significant contribution to folklore studies. The author states that to properly acknowledge her work, one must understand and reassess the place of collaboration and family life in the practice of scholarship.