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2019 Reviews
2019 Reviews

Reviewed by Lydia Bringerud
Lydia Bringerud - Review of Alison R. Marshall, Bayanihan and Belonging: Filipinos and Religion in Canada (Asian Canadian Studies)
Reviewed by Claudia Wright
Claudia Wright - Review of Jon Hackett and Seán Harrington, editors, Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Robert Cantwell
Robert Cantwell - Review of Tom Ewing, Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
Reviewed by Marge Steiner
Marge Steiner - Review of Wayne Everett Goins, Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Robert Sacré, editor, Charley Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta (American Made Music Series)
Reviewed by Chad S. Hamill
Chad S. Hamill - Review of Franz Boas, translator, Jolynn Amrine Goertz, editor, Chehalis Stories
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Alice Rearden, translator, Ann Fienup-Riordan, editor, Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder: The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska
Reviewed by Timothy Lloyd
Timothy Lloyd - Review of Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Cold Iron: Aspects of the Occupational Lore of Irish Fishermen (Scribhinni Bealoidis / Folklore Studies)
Reviewed by Nick Poulakis
Nick Poulakis - Review of Adil Johan, Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen, Review of Cultural Discourse: China-US Intangible Cultural Heritage Forums (Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Research Series)
Reviewed by Caroline Tatem
Caroline Tatem - Review of George Frampton, Discordant Comicals: The Hooden Horse of East Kent
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Michael D. Doubler, Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Macon Story
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Emily Stamey, with a new story by Kelly Link, Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World
Reviewed by Sadhana Naithania
Sadhana Naithani - Review of Jack Zipes, editor, Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days: Collected Utopian Tales (New and Revised Edition)
Reviewed by Bengt af Klintberg
Bengt af Klintberg - Review of Juliette Wood, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Ivan Tribe, Folk Music in Overdrive: A Primer on Traditional Country and Bluegrass Artists
Reviewed by Guntis Šmidchens
Guntis Šmidchens - Review of Sadhana Naithani, Folklore in Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of Jessica H. Schexnayder and Mary H. Manhein, Fragile Grounds: Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
Reviewed by Bridget Anthonia Yakubu
Bridget Anthonia Yakubu - Review of Stacy I. Morgan, Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Review of Jack Loeffler, Headed into the Wind: A Memoir
Reviewed by Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Hande Birkalan-Gedik - Review of James R. Dow, Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions: Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia
Reviewed by Sarah Alice Campbell
Sarah Alice Campbell - Review of Miléna Santoro and Erick D. Langer, editors, Hemispheric Indigeneities: Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Kevin Adonis Browne, High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture
Reviewed by Elizabeth Ozment
Elizabeth Ozment - Review of Alexis C. Bunten and Nelson Graburn, editors, Indigenous Tourism Movements
Reviewed by Susan Eleuterio
Susan Eleuterio - Review of Jack David Eller, Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo
Reviewed by Paulina Guerrero
Paulina Guerrero - Review of Margaret Yocom, Kin S Fur (All Kinds Of Fur): Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm
Reviewed by Christopher Goertzen
Christopher Goertzen - Review of Barbara Rose Lange, Local Fusions: Folk Music Experiments in Central Europe at the Millennium
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Douglas E. Cowan, Magic, Monsters, and Make Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Fan Pen Li Chen, editor and translator, Marionette Plays from Northern China
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Michal Bzinkowski, Masks of Charos in Modern Greek Demotic Songs: Sources, Representations, and Context
Reviewed by Juan Francisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Rubén López Cano, Música Dispersa. Apropiación, Influencias, Robos y Remix en la Era de la Escucha Digital
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Loyal Jones, My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia
Reviewed by Ana R. Chelariu
Ana R. Chelariu - Review of John Waddell, Myth and Materiality (Oxbow Insights in Archaeology)
Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Review of Ann Murdy, On the Path of the Marigolds: Living Traditions of México's Day of the Dead / En el camino de los cempasúchitles: Tradiciones vivas del Día de los Muertos de México
Reviewed by KG Hutchins
KG Hutchins - Review of Dewa Nimbo, edited by Carl Masthay, Oral History of the Mongols
Reviewed by Amy Horowitz
Amy Horowitz - Review of Dana Hercbergs, Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
Reviewed by Paul Cowdell
Paul Cowdell - Review of Francis Young, Peterborough Folklore
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Franz Rickaby, Gretchen Dykstra, and James P. Leary, Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of Christraud M. Geary, Postcards from Africa: Photographers of the Colonial Era
Reviewed by Hilary-Joy Virtanen
Hilary-Joy Virtanen - Review of Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry, Practicing Ethnography: A Student Guide to Method and Methodology
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Alice Rearden, translator, Ann Fienup-Riordan, editor, Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell: Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska
Reviewed by Beth T. Boyd
Beth T. Boyd - Review of Anna M. Nogar, Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present
Reviewed by Joseph Sciorra
Joseph Sciorra - Review of Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla, Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil
Reviewed by Bill Ellis
Bill Ellis - Review of Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill, editors, Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
Reviewed by Sarah N. Lawson
Sarah N. Lawson - Review of Édouard Laboulaye, translated and edited by Jack Zipes, Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Frank J. Korom and Leah K. Lowthorp, editors, South Asian Folklore in Transition: Crafting New Horizons (Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Melissa Daggett, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
Reviewed by David Evans
David Evans - Review of Sandra Jean Graham, Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Andrew R. Martin, Steel Pan Ambassadors: The U.S. Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999
Reviewed by Thomas A. DuBois
Thomas A. DuBois - Review of Ülo Valk and Daniel Sävborg, editors, Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of D. Sävborg and K. Bek-Pedersen, editors, Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Jack Zipes, Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards
Reviewed by Jill Rudy
Jill Rudy - Review of Nancy L. Canepa, Teaching Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Steve Zeitlin
Steve Zeitlin - Review of Jon Kay, editor, The Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art, and Aging (Material Vernaculars)
Reviewed by Ann K. Ferrell
Ann K. Ferrell - Review of Elaine Lawless, The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner: Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate
Reviewed by Regina Bendix
Regina Bendix - Review of Katherine van Wormer, David Walter Jackson, III, and Charletta Sudduth, The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South
Reviewed by Katherine Pukinskis
Katherine Pukinskis - Review of Ursula A. Kelly and Meghan C. Forsyth, The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
Reviewed by Kathryn Graber
Kathryn Graber - Review of Manduhai Buyandelger, Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia
Reviewed by Anne Patricia Lafferty
Anne Patricia Lafferty - Review of Sookja Cho, Transforming Gender & Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea
Reviewed by Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman - Review of Ray Hitchins, Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music)
Reviewed by Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld - Review of Silvio Carta, Visual Anthropology in Sardinia (New Studies in European Cinema)
Reviewed by Thomas Solomon
Thomas Solomon - Review of John Baily, War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale (SOAS Musicology)
Reviewed by Thierry Veyrié
Thierry Veyrié - Review of Gus Palmer Jr, editor, When Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Review of Jenanne Ferguson, Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City
Reviewed by Simon Poole
Simon Poole - Review of Michael Rosen, editor, Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain