[Ads-l] RIP Roger D. Abrahams

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Today's NYT reports on the death of Roger D. Abrahams, who studied African-American folklore. Friends of HDAS will have seen his name in very many places in citations for books he wrote, especially _Deep Down in the Jungle_, an unexpurgated collection of toasts etc. collected in South Philadelphia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/arts/roger-d-abrahams-dead-folklorist.html

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