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2016 Reviews
2016 Reviews

Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Sam Bartlett, 51 Impossible Stunts Anyone Can Do
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Ian Brodie, A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)
Reviewed by Steve Selka
Steve Selka - Review of Scott Ickes, African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil
Reviewed by Jeff Wanser
Jeff Wanser - Review of Jennifer Snook, American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement
Reviewed by Joshua Chrysler
Joshua Chrysler - Review of Susan Eike Spalding, Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities
Reviewed by Julian Carrillo
Julian Carrillo - Review of Juan José Prat Ferrer, Bajo el árbol del paraíso: Historia de los estudios sobre el folclore y sus paradigmas
Reviewed by Michelle Stefano
Michelle Stefano - Review of Adell, N., Bendix, F. R., Bortolotto, C., and Tauschek, M., editors, Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage (Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property)
Reviewed by Rainer Moeller
Rainer Moeller - Review of Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge, editors, Between Magic and Rationality: On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World (Critical Anthropology)
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Ruth Finnegan, Black Inked Pearl: A Girl's Quest
Reviewed by Jeff Todd Titon
Jeff Todd Titon - Review of Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe, and Mark Camarigg, editors, Blues Unlimited: Essential Interviews from the Original Blues Magazine
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Joseph M. Murphy, Botánicas: Sacred Spaces of Healing and Devotion in Urban America
Reviewed by Sarah E. Piña
Sarah E. Piña - Review of Ruth Behar, editor, Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba, 20th Anniversary Edition
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of Joseph Sciorra, Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City
Reviewed by Yvonne J. Milspaw
Yvonne J. Milspaw - Review of Laura F. Hodges, Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works
Reviewed by Burt Feintuch
Burt Feintuch - Review of Ken Perlman, Couldn't Have a Wedding without the Fiddler: The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island (Charles K. Wolfe Music Series)
Reviewed by Rhonda Dass
Rhonda Dass - Review of Beverly Yuen Thompson, Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body
Reviewed by Kelley Totten
Kelley Totten - Review of Peter N. Miller, Cultural Histories of the Material World
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Barry Shears, Dance to the Piper: The Highland Bagpipe in Nova Scotia
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Sandra Hansen, Christian Schwarz, Philipp Stoeckle, and Tobias Streck, editors, Dialectological and Folk Dialectological Concepts of Space: Current Methods and Perspectives in Sociological Research on Dialect Change
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Claude Lecouteux, Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells: From Abraxas to Zoar
Reviewed by Patrick Mullen
Patrick Mullen - Review of Elijiah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties
Reviewed by Maria Zeringue
Maria Zeringue - Review of Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Reviewed by Melissa Harrington
Melissa Harrington - Review of Kimberly J. Lau, Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom, editors, Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations
Reviewed by Steve Siporin
Steve Siporin - Review of Yael Raviv, Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel
Reviewed by Jessica Evans Jain
Jessica Evans Jain - Review of Marie Riegels Melchior and Birgitta Svensson, editors, Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of John Collins, Fela: Kalakuta Notes
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
Reviewed by Lynne McNeill
Lynne McNeill - Review of Sabra J. Webber, Folklore Unbound: A Concise Introduction
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of James P. Leary, Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946
Reviewed by Michiko Suzuki
Michiko Suzuki - Review of Mayako Murai, From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Katerina Mildnerová, From Where Does the Bad Wind Blow?: Spiritual Healing and Witchcraft in Lusaka, Zambia
Reviewed by Kristina Wirtz
Kristina Wirtz - Review of Rebecca M. Bodenheimer, Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series)
Reviewed by Robert D. Bethke
Robert D. Bethke - Review of Richard Polenberg, Hear my Sad Story: The True Tales that Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Anderson Blanton, Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Phil Jamison, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
Reviewed by Frank de Caro
Frank de Caro - Review of Joshua Clegg Caffery, In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore
Reviewed by Mathilde Lind
Mathilde Lind - Review of Stephen Banks, Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760–1914: The Courts of Popular Opinion
Reviewed by Stiofáin Ó Cadhla
Stiofáin Ó Cadhla - Review of Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson, Irish Farming Life: History and Heritage
Reviewed by Callie Clare
Callie Clare - Review of Andrew Kelly, editor, Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Reviewed by Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld - Review of Antonio Sorge, Legacies of Violence: History, Society, and the State in Sardinia (Anthropological Horizons)
Reviewed by Annette Fromm
Annette Fromm - Review of Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald, editors, Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Reviewed by Alina Radulescu
Alina Radulescu - Review of Michal Daliot-Bul, License to Play: The Ludic in Japanese Culture
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Ian Cumpstey, Warrior Lore: Scandinavian Folk Ballads
Reviewed by Bradley Good
Bradley Good - Review of Alain-G. Gagnon, Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty: New Paths to National Emancipation and Empowerment
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of Joe Gisondi, Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot
Reviewed by Ray Cashman
Ray Cashman - Review of David A. McDonald, My Voice is my Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Daniel R. Maher, Mythic Frontiers: Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of David M. Krueger, Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
Reviewed by Pekka Hakamies
Pekka Hakamies - Review of Stefan Groth, Negotiating Tradition: The Pragmatics of International Deliberations on Cultural Property (Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property)
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Eldar Heide, and Karen Bek-Pedersen, editors, New Focus on Retrospective Methods (Folklore Fellows Communications 307)
Reviewed by Cristina Bacchilega
Cristina Bacchilega - Review of Marina Warner, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of David P. Sandell, Open Your Heart: Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico (Latino Perspectives)
Reviewed by Michelle Wibbelsman
Michelle Wibbelsman - Review of Linda D'Amico, Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization
Reviewed by John Schaefer
John Schaefer - Review of Joseph Chetrit, Paroles affables: Proverbes judéo-marocains sur l'hospitalité et l'amitié
Reviewed by Solimar Otero
Solimar Otero - Review of Kristina Wirtz, Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Reviewed by Lydia Bringerud
Lydia Bringerud - Review of Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration (Ritual, Festival, and Celebration Series)
Reviewed by B. Grantham Aldred
B. Grantham Aldred - Review of Jeanie Banks Thomas, editor, Putting the Supernatural in Its Place: Folklore, the Hypermodern, and the Ethereal
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen - Review of Ka-Ming Wu, Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism
Reviewed by Lowell Edmunds
Lowell Edmunds - Reply to the review of Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Reviewed by Jillian M. Jacklin
Jillian M. Jacklin - Review of Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
Reviewed by Mark Alan Singer
Mark Alan Singer - Review of Saint Aldhelm, translated by A.M. Juster, Saint Aldhelm's Riddles
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Charlotte Artese, Shakespeare's Folktale Sources
Reviewed by Dina Bennett
Dina Bennett - Review of Samuel Charters, Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and 'Slave Songs of the United States' (American Made Music)
Reviewed by Frank Proschan
Frank Proschan - Review of Lauren Meeker, Sounding Out Heritage: Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan Ho Folk Song in Northern Vietnam
Reviewed by Jerrold Hirsch
Jerrold Hirsch - Review of Peter Gough, [Western] Music and Country: Popular Musics, Popular Fronts, and the Federal Music Project
Reviewed by Romina Werth
Romina Werth - Review of Lowell Edmunds, Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Janet Topp Fargion, Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century: A Story of 'Old is Gold' and Flying Spirits (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Jack V. Haney, editor, The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II
Reviewed by Rosemary LÃ vy Zumwalt
Rosemary LÃ vy Zumwalt - Review of Andrew Lang, edited by Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick, and Leigh Wilson, The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume I & II
Reviewed by Liora Sarfati
Liora Sarfati - Review of Stuart C. Aitken, The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation: Young People's Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Anna Pilkington, translator, Anna Pilkington, editor, The Garnett Book of Russian Folk and Anonymous Verse
Reviewed by Keagan LeJeune
Keagan LeJeune - Review of Larry L. Massey, The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado
Reviewed by Rainer Moeller
Rainer Moeller - Review of Dietrich Boschung and Jan N. Bremmer, editors, The Materiality of Magic
Reviewed by Kristina Downs
Kristina Downs - Review of Joy A. Steele, The Oak Island Mystery Solved!
Reviewed by Assefa Dibaba
Assefa Dibaba - Review of Chikage Oba-Smidt, The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in Southern Ethiopia: Modes of Construction and Preservation of History among People
Reviewed by Genevieve Galarneau
Genevieve Galarneau - Review of Rionach ui Ogain and Tom Sherlock, editors, The Otherworld: Music and Song from Irish Tradition
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of John H. Arnold, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity
Reviewed by Amy Shuman
Amy Shuman - Review of Michael Jackson, The Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt
Reviewed by Adrienne Decker
Adrienne Decker - Review of Kate Forsyth, The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower
Reviewed by Jean Freedman
Jean Freedman - Review of John Mullen, The Show Must Go On!: Popular Song in Britain During the First World War (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Bronislava Kerbelyt, The Structural-Semantic Types of Lithuanian Folk Tales, Vol. I & II (Folklore Fellows Communications 308)
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, translated by Maria Tatar, edited by Erika Eichenseer, The Turnip Princess: And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Melek Ortabasi, The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio (Harvard East Asian Monographs 363)
Reviewed by Spencer Green
Spencer Green - Review of Eric A. Eliason, To See Them Run: Great Plains Coyote Coursing
Reviewed by Anthony McCann
Anthony McCann - Review of Martin Dowling,Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives
Reviewed by Christian Spencer Espinosa
Christian Spencer Espinosa - Review of Sebastian Felix Braun, editor, Transforming Ethnohistories: Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Sharon Meredith, Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados (SOAS Musicology)
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Natalia Khanenko-Friesenl, Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Robert S. McPerson, Viewing the Ancestors: Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwi?, and Hisatsinom (New Directions in Native American Studies)
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of Alan Harper, Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Ian Cumpstey, Lord Peter and Little Kerstin: Mediaeval Ballads from Sweden
Reviewed by Julie Henigan
Julie Henigan - Review of Roger Welsch, Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
Reviewed by Gregory Schrempp
Gregory Schrempp - Review of Joseph Falaky Nagy, editor, Writing Down the Myths
Reviewed by Hilary Finchum-Sung
Hilary Finchum-Sung - Review of Cedar Bough T. Saeji, Chang Yoon-hee, and Shin Ok-soon, translators, Yeonhui: Korean Performing Arts (Korean Musicology)
Reviewed by Ruth Lynch
Ruth Lynch - Review of Edward Zellem, Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs
Reviewed by Beverly Stoeltje
Beverly Stoeltje - Review of Juan Obarrio, The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique