John Greenway
"Professor Greenway took a doctorate in English Literature before turning to Anthropology. He has been a track star, an expert in small arms and judo, a carpenter, and a chess expert. Highly respected as a folklorist, he is a performer as well as collector of folk songs, has been Master of Ceremonies at the Newport Folk Festival, and has recorded 10 LP albums. Down Among the Wild Men is his tenth book."
Various comments about Greenway's writing:
Down Among the Wild Men:
"An impressive erudition and a stinging wit."
--John K. Hutchens, Book of the Month Club News
"I would hate to be as sure of anything as Mr. Greenway is of everything."
--Emile Capouya, Saturday Review of Literature
Bibliography of the Australian Aborigines:
"Everyone interested in and concerned with Aborigines must be grateful."
--Australian Territories
Literature among the Primitives:
"A first-rate introduction to just what is to be looked for in primitive literature."
--Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books
Folklore of the Great West:
"A professor of Southwestern folklore can only give thanks aloud to the Lord for this book."
--American Anthropologist
The Inevitable Americans:
"admirably eye-opening." --New York Times
"as amusing as it is instructive." --Washington Post
"fascinating." --Los Angeles Times
"highly inflammable." --Vogue
Greenway in general:
"... a man of boundless interests, vast reading, warm temperament, and piquant dogmas ... bold in his generalizations, iconoclastic in his judgments and copious in his knowledge."
--Daniel Boorstin
--All information from the dust jacket of "Down Among the Wild Men."
I briefly corresponded with Dr. Greenway in the 1980s, just after I discovered and read "Down Among the Wild Men." He had retired from the University of Colorado and was pleased to receive my flattering letter about his book, which, by that time, had been out for 10 years. Dr. Greenway has since died, but he is well remembered, and deservedly so.
Greenway's scathing review of reviewers who wrote about the Australian film "Walkabout"
An obituary written by Tristram Potter Coffin
After you've read Dr. Greenway's article on plagiarism, take a look at this next link
Also, Manfred Helfert says a folk music recording by Dr. Greenway was the inspiration for a Bob Dylan song!
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