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Biography
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Harold Courlander
Effective period / Period of releases: 1951 - 1960
American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist (September 18, 1908, Indianapolis, USA - March 15, 1996).Courlander specialised in, among others, oral literature, cults, and Afro-American cultural connections with Africa.
From 1947 to 1960, he served as a general editor of the Ethnic Folkways Library for Folkways Records.