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You are here: Home / In Memoriam: James S. Griffith 

In Memoriam: James S. Griffith 

July 30, 1935-December 18, 2021

Tributes & Obituaries

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Big Jim. BorderLore. Jan. 2022.

Adios, Big Jim: Saying Goodbye to the Man Who Stirred Tucson’s Melting Pot. Tucson Weekly. Jan. 13, 2022.

National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of National Heritage Fellow Jim Griffith. Dec. 20, 2021.

‘Big Jim’ Griffith, folklorist, Tucson icon, dies at 86. Arizona Daily Star. Dec. 20, 2021.

Buckley, Daniel. “More than memories: ‘Big Jim’ Griffith dedicated himself to keeping Southwest traditions alive.” Tucson Sentinel. Dec. 18, 2021.

Nabhan, Gary. “‘Big Jim’ Griffith built bridges, not walls, in the Borderlands.” Tucson Sentinel. Dec. 18, 2021.

Big Jim Griffith. Arizona Public Media. Feb. 19, 2015.
A profile of Dr. James S. Griffith, renowned folklorist, National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow, and the co-founder of the Tucson Meet Yourself folk life festival.

Photos of Jim Griffith. Arizona Daily Star.

Select Publications by James S. Griffith

Contributions to BorderLore, 2016-2020.

Images and Notes Concerning the Traditional Material Culture of the Easter Ceremony in Northern Sinaloa. Journal of the Southwest. Vol. 32, No. 1. Spring 1990. pp.36-67.

Meeting la Corua. Journal of the Southwest. Vol. 34, No. 4. Spring 1992. pp.41-151.

Voices from Inside a Black Snake: Religious Monuments of Sonora’s Highways. Journal of the Southwest. Vol. 47, No. 2. Spring 2005. pp.234-248.

 

Compilations & Videos

Southern Arizona Folk Arts/El Arte Folklórico del Sur de Arizona. Through Our Parents Eyes: History & Culture of Southern Arizona: University of Arizona. 

Music of the Southwest. Through Our Parents Eyes: History & Culture of Southern Arizona: University of Arizona. 

Big Jim videos: Tall tales from Our Storied Desert. Arizona Daily Star.

Jim Griffith brings us a tale of morality and misunderstanding along the border, Apr 22, 2016 – Arizona Daily Star

Jim Griffith discusses the tools and techniques used to harvest Organ Pipe Cactus,  May 28, 2015 – Arizona Daily Star

Jim Griffith shows us how and when to harvest saguaro fruit, May 26, 2015 – Arizona Daily Star

Stolen payroll leads to buried treasure in this tale from the border, Jan 8, 2015 – Arizona Daily Star

 

Miscellaneous

Masters of Traditional Arts – Jim Griffith Bio.

Banjo Newsletter – Interview With Big Jim Griffith.

40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself: An Evening with Big Jim Griffith, Special Collections, 9/2013.

 

 

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The Southwest Folklife Alliance is an affiliate non-profit organization of the University of Arizona, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. We are the designated Folk Arts Partner of the Arizona Commission on the Arts with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts.

Our Mission: We build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage, and diversity rooted in the Greater Southwest and U.S. Mexico Border Corridor. Nationally, we amplify models and methods of meaningful cultural work that center traditional knowledge, social equity, and collaboration.

Folklife: Everyday things people make, say, or do with shared meaning in small groups.

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