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John H. McDowell

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

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Folklore, Mythology, and Literature StudiesLatin American and Latino StudiesLatin American history and cultureMedia, Communication, and EducationRhetoric and Communication Studies

Publications

108

Citations

998

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

54

Publishing since 1972

Research summary
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John H. McDowell studies folklore and the ways cultural knowledge, stories, and traditions are shared and passed on, with particular attention to children's folklore and communities in the Americas, including Latin American and Chicano cultures. His work combines the study of oral traditions, riddles, and performance with ethnographic fieldwork, and includes topics such as ecological worldviews and mountain worship in the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. He also engages with sociolinguistics (how language use relates to culture) and ethnopoetics (analyzing the poetic structure of spoken narratives).

Folklore studiesChildren's folklore and transmissionEthnographic fieldworkLatin American and Andean culturesEthnopoetics and sociolinguistics

Publication activity has been uneven over the past decade, with output clustering in a few active years (notably 2018 and 2024) and several years with no publications.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 7 publications7182019: 1 publication19202021: 2 publications2122232024: 7 publications7242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Indiana University Press eBooks×4
  • Journal of American Folklore×4
  • Children s Folklore Review×3
  • University of Illinois Press eBooks×2
  • Journal of Folklore Research×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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