biography
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Rourke, Constance (Mayfield)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1885–1941)
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| biography:
| Historian and folklorist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She studied at Vassar College where she then taught (1910–15), and after 1915 was an independent scholar based in Grand Rapids, MI. She published pioneering cultural studies on the relationship between American folk traditions and art, which, although flawed, are regarded as having insight, particularly her classic American Humor (1931), Charles Sheeler (1938), and The Roots of American Culture (1942). |
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