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2018 Reviews

2018 Reviews
Reviewed by Thierry Veyri
Thierry Veyri - Review of Donald L. Fixico, "That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Reviewed by Lydia Bringerud
Lydia Bringerud - Review of Rachel McBride Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Reviewed by Jerrold Hirsch
Jerrold Hirsch - Review of Bruce M. Conforth, African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story (American Folk Music and Musicians)
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of William Frank Mitchell, African American Food Culture
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial
Reviewed by Teri Klassen
Teri Klassen - Review of Patricia Cox Crews and Carolyn Ducey, American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760–1870: The International Quilt Study Center and Museum Collections
Reviewed by Jonathan Alcantar
Jonathan Alcantar - Review of Rudolfo Anaya, Francisco A. Lomeli, and Enrique R. Lamandrid, Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland Revised and Expanded Edition
Reviewed by David Evans
David Evans - Review of Adam Gussow, Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Reviewed by George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz - Review of Fernando Orejuela, and Stephanie Shonekan, Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Isidore Okpewho, Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology
Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Review of Roberto Cantú, Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Corinne G. Dempsey, Bridges Between Worlds: Spirits and Spirit Work in Northern Iceland
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Richard Jones-Bamman, Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
Reviewed by Kate Koppy
Kate Koppy - Review of Giuseppe Pitrè, translated by Jack Zipes, edited by Jack Zipes, Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
Reviewed by C.W. Sullivan III
C.W. Sullivan III - Review of Philip Freeman, Celtic Mythology: Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
Reviewed by Sarah Alice Campbell
Sarah Alice Campbell - Review of Sean S. Sell, translator, Sean S. Sell and Nicolás Huet Bautista, editors, Chiapas Maya Awakening: Contemporary Poems and Short Stories
Reviewed by John Mullen
John Mullen - Review of Beatriz Ilari and Susan Young, editors, Children's Home Musical Experiences Across The World
Reviewed by Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke
Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke - Review of Njoroge Njoroge, Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Carribean
Reviewed by Pravina Shukla
Pravina Shukla - Review of Michael Owen Jones and Lucy M. Long, editors, Comfort Food: Meanings and Memories
Reviewed by Kanya Wattanagun
Kanya Wattanagun - Review of Jennie Hornosty and Maria Costanza Torri, editors, Complementary, Alternative, and Traditional Medicine: Prospects and Challenges for Women's Reproductive Health
Reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson
Jason Baird Jackson - Review of Michael Owen Jones, Corn: A Global History
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Linda Grant Niemann, Cosas: Folk Art Travels in Mexico
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Roy Wagner, Coyote Anthropology
Reviewed by Maggie Holtzberg
Maggie Holtzberg - Review of Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N'Diaye, editors, Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Lee Bidgood, Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe
Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Gretchen Martin, Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Reviewed by Katharine Young
Katharine Young - Review of Trevor J. Blank and Andrea Kitta, editors, Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma
Reviewed by Mathilde Lind
Mathilde Lind - Review of Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, editor, Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Howard Wight Marshall, Fiddler's Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Thomas Hovi, Finding Heritage Through Fiction in Dracula Tourism
Reviewed by Hilary-Joy Virtanen
Hilary-Joy Virtanen - Review of Matti Sarmela, Translated by Annira Silver, Finnish Folklore Atlas
Reviewed by Steve Siporin
Steve Siporin - Review of Barry Bergey (text) and Tom Pich (photographs), Folk Masters: A Portrait of America
Reviewed by Trevor Blank
Trevor Blank - Review of Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Folklore in the Digital Age: Collected Essays
Reviewed by Thomas Carter
Thomas Carter - Review of Gabrielle Berlinger, Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
Reviewed by Howard Wight Marshall
Howard Wight Marshall - Review of Chris Goertzen, George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
Reviewed by Keith Howard
Keith Howard - Review of Incoronata Inserra, Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Dorothy Noyes, Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life
Reviewed by Barbara Hillers
Barbara Hillers - Review of Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, editor, Irish Ethnologies
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen - Review of Fan-Pen Li Chen, Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues the Snake Demon
Reviewed by Dikshant Uprety
Dikshant Uprety - Review of Lucy Green, editor, Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices across Cultures
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of Keagan LeJeune, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws: The Villains and Heroes of Folk Justice
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of Fred Bartenstein, editor, Lucky Joe's Namesake: The Extraordinary Life and Observations of Joe Wilson (Charle K. Wolfe Music Series)
Reviewed by Sergio Ospina-Romero
Sergio Ospina-Romero - Review of Julio Mendívil and Christian Spencer Espinosa, editors, Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music
Reviewed by Ülo Valk
Ülo Valk - Review of Dace Bula and Sandis Laine, editors, Mapping the History of Folklore Studies: Centres, Borderlands and Shared Spaces
Reviewed by Richard Wilk
Richard Wilk - Review of Michael Lange, Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen - Review of Juwen Zhang and Junhua Song, editors, Metafolklore: Stories of Sino-US Folkloristic Communication (Volume 1) (Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Research Series)
Reviewed by Adrienne Decker
Adrienne Decker - Review of Sara M. Patterson, Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain
Reviewed by Suzanne MacAulay
Suzanne MacAulay - Review of Conal McCarthy, Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
Reviewed by Aimee Jean Hosemann
Aimee Jean Hosemann - Review of Robin M. Wright, Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon
Reviewed by Joseph C. Jastrzembski
Joseph C. Jastrzembski - Review of Cheryl Claassen, editor, Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Stephen E. Flowers, Original Magic: The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi
Reviewed by Gary Alan Fine
Gary Alan Fine - Review of Daniel Wojcik, Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma
Reviewed by Rachel Corr
Rachel Corr - Review of Norman E. Whitten, Patterns through Time: An Ethnographer's Quest and Journey
Reviewed by Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan - Review of Jean R. Freedman, Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Katrina Daly Thompson, Popobawa: Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Jack Santino, editor, Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Reviewed by David Lewis
David Lewis - Review of Angelique V. Nixon, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Reviewed by Kirstin Erickson
Kirstin Erickson - Review of Rosemary McGuire, Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir
Reviewed by Sean Williams
Sean Williams - Review of Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies, and Eila Williamson, editors, Saints' Cults in the Celtic World
Reviewed by George Katsadoros, Elena Psichari
George Katsadoros and Elena Psichari - Review of Jim Ridolfo, Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Leslie H. Tepper, Janice George, and Willard Josephl, Salish Blankets: Roles of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth
Reviewed by Paul Cowdell
Paul Cowdell - Review of Erik Mueggler, Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Stories Find You, Places Know
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Review of Robin P. Harris, Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Reviewed by Marisa Wieneke
Marisa Wieneke - Review of Daniel Peretti, Superman in Myth and Folklore
Reviewed by Debashree Dattaray
Debashree Dattaray - Review of Lisa King, Rose Gubele, and Joyce Rain Anderson, editors, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Reviewed by Hilary-Joy Virtanen
Hilary-Joy Virtanen - Review of Aili Kolehmainen, Edited by James Cloyd Bowman and Margery Bianco, Tales from a Finnish Tupa
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Walter May, Edited by John Colarusso and Tamilan Salbiev, Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, Wang Chi, The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century
Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of William Hansen, The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
Reviewed by Eric Galm
Eric Galm - Review of John Burdick, The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
Reviewed by Richard Martin
Richard Martin - Review of Jonathan L. Ready, The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia
Reviewed by Ruth Perry
Ruth Perry - Review of Paula McDowell, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Reviewed by Luis Silva
Luis Silva - Review of Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox, editors, The Latina/o Midwest Reader
Reviewed by Gavin Douglas
Gavin Douglas - Review of Michele Zack, The Lisu: Far from the Ruler
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Vance Randolf, Edited by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society
Reviewed by Shane Rasmussen
Shane Rasmussen - Review of Lucy Fraser, The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"
Reviewed by Yelena P. Francis
Yelena P. Francis - Review of Jack Zipes, editor, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Thomas Hatsis, The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic
Reviewed by Gabriel McGuire
Gabriel McGuire - Review of Arthur Hatto, The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princess: An Explanation of a Siberian Oral Tradition
Reviewed by Yelena P. Francis
Yelena P. Francis - Review of Claude Lecouteux, Traditional Magic Spells for Protection and Healing
Reviewed by Ioannis Konstantakos
Ioannis Konstantakos - Review of Michalis G. Meraklis, Tragodia kai Laikos Politismos stin Archaia Athina [Tragedy and Folk Culture in Ancient Athens]
Reviewed by Ethan Sharp
Ethan Sharp - Review of Kimberly Jenkins Marshall, Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism
Reviewed by James Leary
James Leary - Review of Eric Dregni, Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America
Reviewed by Thomas Turino
Thomas Turino - Review of Lorna Dillon, editor, Violetta Parra: Life and Work
Reviewed by David Delgado Shorter
David Delgado Shorter - Review of Marie Battiste, editor, Visioning A Mi'kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy
Reviewed by Irene Chagall
Irene Chagall - Review of Jeanne Pitre Solieau, Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
Reviewed by Laura A. Lewis
Laura A. Lewis - Review of John Holmes McDowell, ¡Corrido! The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast