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Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

Reviewed by Lodewyk Barkhuizen
Lodewyk Barkhuizen - Review of Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Tolbert
Jeffrey A. Tolbert - Review of Regna Darnell, History of Theory and Method in Anthropology
Reviewed by Alexander Fernández
Alexander Fernández - Review of Danielle N. Boaz, Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Linda J. Seligmann, Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands
Reviewed by Addie I. McKnight
Addie I. McKnight - Review of Bendi Tso et al., Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Reviewed by chloē fourte
chloē fourte - Review of Lauren Miller Griffith, Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Reviewed by Rene Pintac-Divinagracia
Rene Pintac-Divinagracia - Review of Jack Zipes, The Operated Jew and the Operated Goy: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism
Reviewed by Holly Mathews
Holly Mathews - Review of Ruthie Meadows, Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìṣà
Reviewed by James Plumtree
James Plumtree - Review of Jo Anne Cavallo, editor, Teaching World Epics
Reviewed by Timothy H. Evans
Timothy H. Evans - Review of Judith S. Neulander, Folklore of Lake Erie
Reviewed by Pauline Greenhill
Pauline Greenhill - Review of Francisco Vaz da Silva, The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited
Reviewed by Joshua Caffery
Joshua Caffery - Review of Burt Feintuch, Jeannie Banks Thomas, editor, Gary Samson, photographs, Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Alin Rus, The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Thed Bostic
Thed Bostic - Review of Christa C. Jones, editor, Djeha, the North African Trickster
Reviewed by Olivia Phillips
Olivia Phillips - Review of Dan Gutstein, Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
Reviewed by Lucía Isabel Stavig
Lucía Isabel Stavig - Review of Charles Briggs, Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
Reviewed by Yelena Francis
Yelena Francis - Review of Jo Ann Cavallo, L’Epica e il Teatro di Figura Mondiale. World Epics and Puppet Theater
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Andrew J. Eisenberg, Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Reviewed by Donald Haase
Donald Haase - Review of Jack Zipes, editor, Green Magic; Silver Magic; and Red Magic: The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson
Reviewed by Margaret Steiner
Margaret Steiner - Review of Stephen Millar, Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Gail de Vos, The Watkins Book of Urban Legends
Reviewed by Ian McIntosh
Ian McIntosh - Review of Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy, editors, Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History
Reviewed by José Limón
José Limón - Review of Erin E. Bauer, Flaco’s Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto
Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Review of Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López, editors, Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling
Reviewed by Marilyn Petersen
Marilyn Petersen - Review of Banu Senay, Musical Ethics & Islam: The Art of Playing the Ney
Reviewed by Yuliannnie Zayas Berrios
Yuliannnie Zayas Berrios - Review of Peter J. Hoesing, Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing
Reviewed by Juan Sebastián Rojas E.
Juan Sebastián Rojas E. - Review of Angela Jill Lederach, Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia
Reviewed by Bonnie O'Connor
Bonnie O'Connor - Review of Lisa Gabbert, The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians
Reviewed by Hilary Warner-Evans
Hilary Warner-Evans - Review of Heather Sparling, Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada
Reviewed by Bryan Rupert
Bryan Rupert - Review of Mary Elizabeth Reeve, Amazonian Kichwa Of the Curaray River: Kinship and History of the Western Amazon
Reviewed by Caroline Joy Tatem
Caroline Joy Tatem - Review of Michael Fortune, The Folklore of Wexford, and Michael Fortune and Aileen Lambert, The May Bush in County Wexford
Reviewed by Paul C. Eells
Paul C. Eells - Review of Richard Moves Camp, My Grandfather's Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
Reviewed by Paul C. Eells
Paul C. Eells - Review of Agnes Oshanee Kenmille, Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and Master Craftswoman
Reviewed by Ragini Mishra
Ragini Mishra - Review of The Path of Desire: Living Tantra in Northeast India
Reviewed by Jay Miller
Jay Miller - Review of The Franz Boas Papers, Vol. 2: Franz Boas, James Teit, and Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Frightful Folklore of North America: Illustrated Folk Horror from Greenland to the Panama Canal
Reviewed by Jay Mechling
Jay Mechling - Review of Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack
Reviewed by Tsafi Sebba
Tsafi Sebba - Review of The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays
Reviewed by Iryna Voloshyna
Iryna Voloshyna - Review of Maria Sonevytsky, Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty In Ukraine
Reviewed by Niger Sultana
Niger Sultana - Review of Suchitra Samanta, Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience
Reviewed by Claire Schmidt
Claire Schmidt - Review of Idit Pinte-Ginsberg, The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives
Reviewed by Yelena Francis
Yelena Francis - Review of Elena Ivanovna Yakubovskaya, My Ustya: Essays on the Culture of Lyrical Songs of Arkhangelsk Oblast Ustyansky District
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suhelya Saritas - Review of Merin Shobhana Xavier, The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Scott E. Simon, Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa
Reviewed by Anne Lafferty
Anne Lafferty - Review of Sharbreon Plummer, ed., Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South
Reviewed by Joseph Falaky Nagy
Joseph Falaky Nagy - Review of Derek Coltman, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
Reviewed by Ziying You
Ziying You - Review of Lijun, Zhang, Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destination in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Laurel Victoria Gray
Laurel Victoria Gray - Review of Lanlan Kuang, Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Culture and China’s New Cosmopolitan Heritage
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Debbie Felton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth
Reviewed by Pâmilla Vilas Boas Costa Ribeiro
Pâmilla Vilas Boas Costa Ribeiro - Review of Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla, Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian
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