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2017 Reviews
2017 Reviews

Reviewed by Bonnie McConnell
Bonnie McConnell - Review of Daniel B. Reed, Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Craig A. Monson, Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in 17th-Century Italy
Reviewed by David Waldron
David Waldron - Review of Bruce David Forbes, America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories
Reviewed by Mathilde Lind
Mathilde Lind - Review of Aoife Assumpta Hart, Ancestral Recall: The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism
Reviewed by Sarah M. Gordon
Sarah M. Gordon - Review of Benjamin Radford, Bad Clowns
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Sherry Johnson, Bellows & Bows: Historic Recordings of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Music from Across Canada
Reviewed by Sarah Alice Campbell
Sarah Alice Campbell - Review of Nicholas A. Hopkins and J. Kathryn Josserand with Ausencio [Chencho] Cruz Guzmán, Chol (Mayan) Folktales: A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico
Reviewed by Karra Shimabukuro
Karra Shimabukuro - Review of Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak, editors, Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Sallie Anna Steiner
Sallie Anna Steiner - Review of Barry Brummett, editor, Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk
Reviewed by Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Hande Birkalan-Gedik - Review of Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox, editors, Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
Reviewed by James Stahl
James Stahl - Review of Ruth Finnegan, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Communication
Reviewed by Michael Mason
Michael Mason - Review of Diana Espírito Santo, Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Michael Peter Verenol, Die Stimme des Windes: Sprachliches zur Geschichte der Sackpfeife/The Voice of the Wind: A Linguistic History of the Bagpipe
Reviewed by Juan Francisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Julio Mendívil, En contra de la música. Herramientas para pensar, comprender y vivir las músicas
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Greg Garrett, Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination
Reviewed by Meredith McGriff
Meredith McGriff - Review of Bernard L. Herman, editor, Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Penny Parsons, Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The Life and Music of Curly Seckler
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Jon Kay, Folk Art and Aging: Life Story Objects and Their Makers (Material Vernaculars)
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Kunio Yanagita and Sasaki Kizen, Translated by Ronald A. Morse, Folk Legends from Tono: Japan's Spirits, Deities, and Phantastic Creatures
Reviewed by Carl Lindahl
Carl Lindahl - Review of Anna Servaes, Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée
Reviewed by Debashree Dattaray
Debashree Dattaray - Review of Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk, From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Reviewed by Ana Cara
Ana Cara - Review of Melissa A. Fitch, Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall Scott, editors, Heavy Metal Music and The Communal Experience
Reviewed by Shannon K. Tanhayi Ahari
Shannon K. Tanhayi Ahari - Review of Stephen E. Flowers, editor, Icelandic Magic: Practical Secrets of the Northern Grimoires
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Mohamed A. G. Bakhit, Identity and Lifestyle Construction in Multi-ethnic Shantytowns: A Case Study of Al-Baraka Community in Khartoum, Sudan (Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung)
Reviewed by CedarBough Saeji
CedarBough Saeji - Review of Michelle Bigenho, Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Mark Williams, Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Alison McQueen Tokita, Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative (SOAS Musicology)
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of Jimmie Cooke, editor, Kilmacow Folklore 2: County Kilkenny, St. Joseph's Presentation Convent Girls N.S., Upper Kilmacow, St. Patrick's Strangsmills Mixed N.S., Dunkitt, Kilmacow Schools' Scheme 1937-39
Reviewed by Nicholas Gresens
Nicholas Gresens - Review of Lee E. Patterson, Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Lead Belly, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Reviewed by Jean Freedman
Jean Freedman - Review of Allan F. Moore, and Giovanni Vacca, editors, Legacies of Ewan MacColl: The Last Interview (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Reviewed by Bruno Seraphin
Bruno Seraphin - Review of Marie Battiste, editor, Living Treaties: Narrating Mi'kmaw Treaty Relations
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Timothy G. Anderson, Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt
Reviewed by Sarah Quick
Sarah Quick - Review of Manuela Zips-Mairitsch, Lost Lands?: (Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of Indigeneity in Africa
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
Reviewed by Ian Brodie
Ian Brodi - Review of Pauline Greenhill, Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
Reviewed by B. Grantham Aldred
B. Grantham Aldred - Review of Orna Alyagon Darr, Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England
Reviewed by Gloria Nardini
Gloria Nardini - Review of Anne Schiller, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin, Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s (American Made Music Series)
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Christine A. Jones, Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Susan Fast and Kip Pegley, editors, Music, Politics, and Violence
Reviewed by David A. McDonald
David A. McDonald - Review of Lisa Gilman, My Music My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe, editors, New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Claire Manes, Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Martha L. Benson and Laura Redford, Ozark Coverlets: The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History Collection
Reviewed by Katherine Borland
Katherine Borland - Review of Ray Cashman, Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border
Reviewed by Lauren Eldridge Stewart
Lauren Eldridge Stewart - Review of Kymberly N. Pinder, Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Reviewed by Beñat Garaio
Beñat Garaio - Review of Josep Vicent Frechina, Pensar en vers: La canço improvisada als països de la Mediterrània
Reviewed by Shane Rasmussen
Shane Rasmussen - Review of Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson, Quilts and Human Rights
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Catherine Emerson, Regarding Manneken Pis: Culture, Celebration and Conflict in Brussels (Research Monographs in French Studies)
Reviewed by Peter Manuel
Peter Manuel - Review of Shubha Chaudhari and Anthony Seeger, editors, Remembered Rhythms: Essays on Diaspora and the Music of India
Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Melissa Savage, Río: A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande (Querencias Series)
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Francesca Prescendi, Rois éphémères: Enquête sur le sacrifice humain
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Gary Wyatt, Seekers and Travellers: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Noriko T. Reider, Seven Demon Stories From Medieval Japan
Reviewed by Genevieve Galarneau
Genevieve Galarneau - Review of Peter Pannke, translated by Samuel P. Willcocks, Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Reviewed by Bridget Anthonia Yakubu
Bridget Anthonia Yakubu - Review of H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, SoulStirrers: Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse
Reviewed by Robert McCarl
Robert McCarl - Review of Ellen E. McHale, Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)
Reviewed by Kelly Askew
Kelly Askew - Review of Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles
Reviewed by Claire Schmidt
Claire Schmidt - Review of David C. Conrad, translator, Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Regina F. Bendix, Killian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes, Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide For the Academy
Reviewed by Patricia A. Hardwick
Patricia A. Hardwick - Review of Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman, editors, Textiles of Timor: Island in the Woven Sea
Reviewed by Jennifer Larson
Jennifer Larson - Review of Laurialan Reitzammer, The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival
Reviewed by Peter Savastano
Peter Savastano - Review of Luis Nicolau Parés, translated by Richard Vernon, The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Christopher Fee and David Leeming, The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Mindy Campbell Hudson, The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales
Reviewed by Jennie Gubner
Jennie Gubner - Review of Pablo Vila, editor, The Militant Song Movement in Latin America: Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Reviewed by Fernando F. Guerrero Briceño
Fernando F. Guerrero Briceño - Review of Alfredo Colman, The Paraguayan Harp: From Colonial Transplant to National Emblem
Reviewed by Kate Parker Horigan
Kate Parker Horigan - Review of Diane E. Goldstein and Amy Shuman, editors, The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
Reviewed by Dev N. Pathak
Dev N. Pathak - Review of Richard K. Wolf, Performative Drumming in South Asia
Reviewed by Willem de BlÃ(c)court
Willem de BlÃ(c)court - Review of Lyndal Roper, The Witch in the Western Imagination
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Andreas Marks, editor, Tokaido Texts and Tales: Tokaido gojusan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada (David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series)
Reviewed by Frank Proschan
Frank Proschan - Review of Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman, editors, UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Reviewed by Jennifer Spitulnik
Jennifer Spitulnik - Review of Andrea Kitta, Vaccinations and Public Concern in History: Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Reviewed by Frederickal A. Schmade
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Franziska Riedel, Von Geistern, Steinen und anderen Leuten: Das Weltbild der Baure im bolivianischen Tiefland (Ethnologische Studien)
Reviewed by Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman - Review of David Spener, We Shall Not Be Moved/ No Nos Moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle
Reviewed by Anthony K. Webster
Anthony K. Webster - Review of Ruth Finnegan, Where is Language? An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Tanya Merchant, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan: From Courtyard to Conservatory