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4/28/03

RECEPTION TO HONOR SLU PROF FOR BOOK OF ESSAYS & STORIES

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at 
St. Lawrence University will hold a reception honoring Visiting 
Assistant Professor of Music David R. Henderson for the publication 
of a new book of essays and stories he co-edited, titled Mementos, 
Artifacts, and Hallucinations From the Ethnographer's Tent. The 
event will be on Friday, May 2, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young 
Room of Owen D. Young Library; Henderson will speak about his 
work. It is open to the public, free of charge.
	Co-edited with Ron Emoff, the collection was published by 
Routledge in September of 2002. With contributions from leading 
researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology and 
folklore, the book contains personal, imaginative accounts of 
ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly 
context, but are "a vital and engaging aspect of studying 
different cultures," according to the publishers. Individual 
pieces vary from autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' 
experiences in the field to fictional narratives. 
	Henderson is the author of one of the 10 essays, entitled 
"The Freak Street Riots of '59." A graduate of Pomona College, 
with a master's degree from the University of Southern California 
and the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Henderson 
has been on the faculty at St. Lawrence since 2001.

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