URI(s)
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1921-08-27
Death Date
- 2015-08-11
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1956
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Chicago
Birth Place
- Altoona (Pa.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Pennsylvania Dutch--Social life and customs--Research
(lcsh) United States--Social life and customs--Study and teaching
Occupation
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Sources
- found: His Pennsylvania spirituals, 1961.
- found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 8/27/21)
- found: Philly.com, via WWW, Aug. 19, 2015(in obituary posted Aug. 18, 2015: Don Yoder; Univ. of Pa. prof. of folklife for 40 yrs.; died Aug. 11; he was less than three weeks from his 94th birthday, Aug. 27; lived in Devon; born in Altoona; devoted to the history of Pennsylvania, especially the folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch; Ph.D in religious studies from the University of Chicago in 1947; joined the Penn faculty in 1956; father of the folklife movement in America; founded the first folklife studies program in the U.S.)
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-22: new
- 2018-05-18: revised
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