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Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Simon Young, The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect
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Reviewed by David Lewis
David Lewis - Review of Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond
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Reviewed by Barbara Hillers
Barbara Hillers - Review of Mike Baldwin, Rescued Folklore Histories and Songs from Ireland's South-West, Mizen (2019) & Skibbereen (2022)
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Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Brigid O’Keefe, New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
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Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Roberto Cantú, Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History: Biography, Nationhood, and Globalism
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Reviewed by Lauren Adams Willette
Lauren Adams Willette - Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff, Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord
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Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Claude Lecouteux, Tales of Witchcraft and Wonder: The Venomous Maiden and Other Stories of the Supernatural
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Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Miguel Díaz-Barriga & Margaret E. Dorsey, Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State (Global Insecurities)
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Reviewed by John McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Suzanne Oakdale, Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects
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Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby - Review of Theodor Kittelsen, Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway, Translated by Tiina Nunnally
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Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Bob Black, Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White
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Reviewed by Timothy Lloyd
Timothy Lloyd - Review of Tim Frandy and B. Marcus Cederström, editors, Culture Work: Folklore For the Public Good
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Reviewed by Raymond Summerville
Raymond Summerville - Review of Patricia A. Turner, Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
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Reviewed by Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring - Review of Raúl Pérez , The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
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Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Jack Davy, So Much More Than Art: Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest
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Reviewed by Lia Morgan Siewert
Lia Morgan Siewart - Review of Lawrence W. Gross, ed., Native American Rhetoric
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Reviewed by Quaid Adams
Quaid Adams - Review of David Puglia, North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook
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Reviewed by Eleanor Hasken
Eleanor Hasken - Review of Roberto Cozzolino, ed., Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
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Reviewed by Joseph Jastrzembski
Joseph C. Jastrzembski - Review of C. Thomas Shay, Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
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Reviewed by Rachelle Saltzman
Rachelle Saltzman - Review of Emily Contois and Zenia Kish, ed., Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, & Negotiation
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Reviewed by John E. Priegnitz II
John E. Priegnitz II - Review of Blake A. Bell, The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
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Reviewed by Jean R. Freedman
Jean R. Freedman - Review of Pauline Greenhill, Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths
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Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Rafael Ocasio, Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico
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Reviewed by Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes - Review of Jeana Jorgensen, Fairy Tales 101: An Accessible Introduction to Fairy Tales
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Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of Nancy L. Canepa, The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers
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Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Richard Price, Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology
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Reviewed by Gregory R. Darwin
Gregory R. Darwin - Review of Sharon J. Arbuthnot, Síle Ní Mhurchú, and Geraldine Parsons, The Gaelic Finn Tradition II
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Reviewed by Paul C. Eells
Paul C. Eells - Review of Tara Browner, ed., Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
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Reviewed by Ana R. Chelariu
Ana R. Chelariu - Review of Jörg Mull, Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
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Reviewed by María Pinal Villanueva
María Pinal Villanueva - Review of Belinda Crerar, Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic
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Reviewed by Andrew Janzen
Andrew Janzen - Review of Carlos Sandroni, translated by Michael Iyanaga, A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro
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Reviewed by Gerald Pocius
Gerald Pocius - Review of Timothy Lloyd, editor, What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies
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Reviewed by Kathleen Fleming
Kathleen Fleming - Review of Simon Webb, The Origins of Wizards, Witches, and Fairies
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Reviewed by Caroline Tatem
Caroline Joy Tatem - Review of John Creedon, An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Jennifer Helgren, The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980
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Reviewed by Robert Howard
Robert Glenn Howard - Review of Andrew Peck and Trevor Blank, ed., Folklore and Social Media
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Reviewed by David McDuffie
David McDuffie - Review of Evan Berry, ed., Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
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Reviewed by Arpit Gaind
Arpit Gaind - Review of Candace Keller, Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa
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Reviewed by Lucy Long
Lucy M. Long - Review of Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, editors, Communicating Food in Korea
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