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2020 Reviews

2020 Reviews
Reviewed by Raymond Summerville
Raymond Summerville - Review of "Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview
Reviewed by Liza Black
Liza Black - Review of A Diné History of Navajoland
Reviewed by John A. Burrison
John A. Burrison - Review of A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft
Reviewed by Nick Poulakis
Nick Poulakis - Review of American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology
Reviewed by Robert D. Bethke
Robert D. Bethke - Review of Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery
Reviewed by Suzanne P. MacAulay
Suzanne P. MacAulay - Review of Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance
Reviewed by Hunter Dux
Hunter Dux - Review of Banjo Roots and Branches (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Daniel F. Melia
Daniel F. Melia - Review of Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination
Reviewed by Susan Davis
Susan Davis - Review of Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
Reviewed by David Evans
David Evans - Review of Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago
Reviewed by Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy - Review of By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, DC
Reviewed by Emmie Pappa-Eddy
Emmie Pappa-Eddy - Review of Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination
Reviewed by Karra Shimabukuro
Karra Shimabukuro - Review of Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology
Reviewed by Evangeline Mee
Evangeline Mee - Review of Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice
Reviewed by Juan Francisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Culture and Value: Tourism, Heritage, and Property
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou. Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon
Reviewed by Bill Ellis
Bill Ellis - Review of Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000-1868
Reviewed by Lydia Bringerud
Lydia Bringerud - Review of Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)
Reviewed by Bridget Anthonia Yakubu
Bridget Anthonia Yakubu - Review of Feminism and Folk Art: Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil
Reviewed by Katharine Young
Katharine Young - Review of Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception
Reviewed by Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring - Review of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Reviewed by Joshua Chrysler
Joshua Chrysler - Review of George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Reviewed by Ana R. Chelariu
Ana R. Chelariu - Review of Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Reviewed by Jeff Todd Titon
Jeff Todd Titon - Review of Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork
Reviewed by Sarah N. Lawson
Sarah N. Lawson - Review of Handbook of Narrative Analysis, Second Edition (Frontiers of Narrative Series)
Reviewed by Carolyn Ware
Carolyn Ware - Review of Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation
Reviewed by Eleanor Hasken-Wagner
Eleanor Hasken-Wagner - Review of Haunted Heartland
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Stanford Societies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Cultures)
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar
Reviewed by Sarah M. Gordon
Sarah M. Gordon - Review of Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships
Reviewed by Lynne Hamer
Lynne Hamer - Review of Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois
Reviewed by R. Aliah Ajamoughli
R. Aliah Ajamoughli - Review of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons
Reviewed by Ethan Sharp
Ethan Sharp - Review of Island Gospel: Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States (African American Music in Global Perspective)
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts
Reviewed by Ann K. Ferrell
Ann K. Ferrell - Review of Kentucky Barns: Agricultural Heritage of the Bluegrass
Reviewed by Rainer Moeller
Rainer Moeller - Review of Kvinnan som inte ville ha barn: Sagotypen ATU 755, "Sin and Grace," i muntlig tradition och litterara verk
Reviewed by Kirstin Erickson
Kirstin Erickson - Review of La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society
Reviewed by Janet L. Langlois
Janet L. Langlois - Review of Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook
Reviewed by Frank Korom
Frank Korom - Review of Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore
Reviewed by Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman - Review of Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon
Reviewed by David E. K. Smith
David E. K. Smith - Review of Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Musicología Global: Pensamientos Clásicos y Contemporáneos Sobre la Etnomusicología [Global Musicology: Classic and Contemporary Thoughts on Ethnomusicology]
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi: Collected Works and Materials: Volume 2: Materials toward a Biography
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
Reviewed by Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld - Review of National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945
Reviewed by Ülo Valk
Ülo Valk - Review of Numinoses Erzählen: Das Andere-das Jenseitige-das Zauberische (Beiträge zur Volkskunde für Sachsen-Anhalt, Band 5)
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of One Rough life, Ted Ashlaw: Adirondack Lumber Camp and Barroom Singer
Reviewed by Victoria Hegner
Victoria Hegner - Review of On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose
Reviewed by James Griffith
James Griffith - Review of Postcards from the Chihuahua Border: Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Posthuman Folklore
Reviewed by Lisa Marie Gilman
Lisa Marie Gilman - Review of PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities)
Reviewed by Solimar Otero
Solimar Otero - Review of Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Reviewed by Norma Cantu
Norma Cantu - Review of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
Reviewed by Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes - Review of Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
Reviewed by Sarah Shultz
Sarah Shultz - Review of Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives
Reviewed by YuHao Chen
YuHao Chen - Review of Resonances of Chindon-Ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Rethinking American Music
Reviewed by Hilary-Joy Virtanen
Hilary-Joy Virtanen - Review of Sacred to the Touch: Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Sagen–Fakt, Fiktion oder Fake? Eine kurze Reise durch zweifelhafte Geschichten vom Mittelalter bis heute
Reviewed by Mario Montaño
Mario Montaño - Review of Saints, Statues, and Stories: A Folklorist Looks at the Religious Art of Sonora
Reviewed by Bengt af Klintberg
Bengt af Klintberg - Review of Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Shapeshifters: A History
Reviewed by Salvador Hernandez
Salvador Hernandez - Review of Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño
Reviewed by Alexander Karvelas
Alexander Karvelas - Review of Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Wolfgang Brückner, Das Jahr 1938 in der deutschsprachigen Volkskunde
Reviewed by Carolyn Ware
Carolyn Ware - Review of Lauren Pond, Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Andrei Codrescu, editor, Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
Reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson
Jason Baird Jackson - Review of Gary Alan Fine, Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and The Practice of Culture in MFA Education
Reviewed by Patrick McNaughton
Patrick McNaughton - Review of John Mack, The Artfulness of Death in Africa
Reviewed by Hilary Warner-Evans
Hilary Warner-Evans - Review of David Atkinson, The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory
Reviewed by Richard Jones-Bamman
Richard Jones-Bamman - Review of Dick Spottswood, The Blue Sky Boys
Reviewed by Psyche Ready
Psyche Ready - Review of Charles Godfrey Leland, edited by Jack Zipes, The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria
Reviewed by Psyche Ready
Christine Goldberg - Review of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Jorgen Moe, translated by Tiina Nunnally, The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen & Moe
Reviewed by Elissa R. Henken
Elissa R. Henken - Review of Ronald M. James, The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation
Reviewed by Yelena P. Francis
Yelena P. Francis - Review of Christian Bärmann, translated by Jack Zipes, edited by Jack Zipes, The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Phillip Douglas Howerton, The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Charles Camp - Review of William Frank Mitchell, African American Food Culture
Reviewed by Paul Eells
Paul Eells - Review of Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, edited by Daniel M. Beveridge with Jurgita Antoine, The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians Series)
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr, The Securitization of Memorial Space: Rhetoric and Public Memory
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Albert B. Lord, edited by David F. Elmer, The Singer of Tales (Hellenic Studies Series 77)
Reviewed by Richard Martin
Richard Martin - Review of Sarah Iles Johnston, The Story of Myth
Reviewed by Marisa Wieneke
Marisa Wieneke- Review ofRobert Lemon, The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
Reviewed by Sean Williams
Sean Williams - Review of Tes Slominski, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music
Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Felicity Wood, Universities and the Occult Rituals of the Corporate World: Higher Education and Metaphorical Parallels with Myth and Magic (Routledge Research in Higher Education)
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales, editors, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices
Reviewed by Sarah Alice Campbell
Sarah Alice Campbell - Review of Suzanne Cook, Xurt'an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha' (Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures Series)
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Michael Buonanno, The Meaning of Myth in World Cultures
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Susan Stanley, translator, Heinrich Rink, editor, The Native Greenlander: Folktales of Greenland
Reviewed by Lisa Voigt
Lisa Voigt - Review of Jeroen Dewulf, The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
Reviewed by Amy Shuman
Amy Shuman - Review of Steve Zeitlin, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
Reviewed by Kirstin Erickson
Kirstin Erickson - Review of Jennifer Koshatka Seman, Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo