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2023 Reviews

2023 Reviews
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Simon Young, The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect
Reviewed by David Lewis
David Lewis - Review of Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond
Reviewed by Barbara Hillers
Barbara Hillers - Review of Mike Baldwin, Rescued Folklore Histories and Songs from Ireland's South-West, Mizen (2019) & Skibbereen (2022)
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Brigid O’Keefe, New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
Reviewed by Enrique Lamadrid
Enrique Lamadrid - Roberto Cantú, Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History: Biography, Nationhood, and Globalism
Reviewed by Lauren Adams Willette
Lauren Adams Willette - Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff, Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Claude Lecouteux, Tales of Witchcraft and Wonder: The Venomous Maiden and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Miguel Díaz-Barriga & Margaret E. Dorsey, Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State (Global Insecurities)
Reviewed by John McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Suzanne Oakdale, Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects
Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby - Review of Theodor Kittelsen, Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway, Translated by Tiina Nunnally
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Bob Black, Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White
Reviewed by Timothy Lloyd
Timothy Lloyd - Review of Tim Frandy and B. Marcus Cederström, editors, Culture Work: Folklore For the Public Good
Reviewed by Raymond Summerville
Raymond Summerville - Review of Patricia A. Turner, Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring - Review of Raúl Pérez , The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Jack Davy, So Much More Than Art: Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest
Reviewed by Lia Morgan Siewert
Lia Morgan Siewart - Review of Lawrence W. Gross, ed., Native American Rhetoric
Reviewed by Quaid Adams
Quaid Adams - Review of David Puglia, North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook
Reviewed by Eleanor Hasken
Eleanor Hasken - Review of Roberto Cozzolino, ed., Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrzembski
Joseph C. Jastrzembski - Review of C. Thomas Shay, Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
Reviewed by Rachelle Saltzman
Rachelle Saltzman - Review of Emily Contois and Zenia Kish, ed., Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, & Negotiation
Reviewed by John E. Priegnitz II
John E. Priegnitz II - Review of Blake A. Bell, The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound
Reviewed by Jean R. Freedman
Jean R. Freedman - Review of Pauline Greenhill, Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Rafael Ocasio, Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico
Reviewed by Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes - Review of Jeana Jorgensen, Fairy Tales 101: An Accessible Introduction to Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of Nancy L. Canepa, The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Richard Price, Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology
Reviewed by Gregory R. Darwin
Gregory R. Darwin - Review of Sharon J. Arbuthnot, Síle Ní Mhurchú, and Geraldine Parsons, The Gaelic Finn Tradition II
Reviewed by Paul C. Eells
Paul C. Eells - Review of Tara Browner, ed., Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
Reviewed by Ana R. Chelariu
Ana R. Chelariu - Review of Jörg Mull, Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Reviewed by María Pinal Villanueva
María Pinal Villanueva - Review of Belinda Crerar, Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic
Reviewed by Andrew Janzen
Andrew Janzen - Review of Carlos Sandroni, translated by Michael Iyanaga, A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro
Reviewed by Gerald Pocius
Gerald Pocius - Review of Timothy Lloyd, editor, What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies
Reviewed by Kathleen Fleming
Kathleen Fleming - Review of Simon Webb, The Origins of Wizards, Witches, and Fairies
Reviewed by Caroline Tatem
Caroline Joy Tatem - Review of John Creedon, An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Jennifer Helgren, The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980
Reviewed by Robert Howard
Robert Glenn Howard - Review of Andrew Peck and Trevor Blank, ed., Folklore and Social Media
Reviewed by David McDuffie
David McDuffie - Review of Evan Berry, ed., Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Reviewed by Arpit Gaind
Arpit Gaind - Review of Candace Keller, Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa
Reviewed by Lucy Long
Lucy M. Long - Review of Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, editors, Communicating Food in Korea
Reviewed by Ruzhica Baruh
Ruzhica Samokovlija Baruh - Review of Helle Bundgaard, Painting Stories: Lives and Legacies from an Indian Crafts Village
Reviewed by Chris Faraone
Chris Faraone - Review of Elisabeth R. O’Connell, ed., The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice
Reviewed by María Herrera-Sobek
María Herrera-Sobek - Review of Demetria Martínez with Enrique Lamadrid and Teodoro Martínez, co-editors, La voz de mi conciencia: Life, Times, and Talents of Luis S. Martínez
Reviewed by Gwyneth R. Harris
Gwyneth R. Harris - Review of Simon Young, The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
Reviewed by Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy - Review of John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, and Sue Tuohy, editors, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change
Reviewed by Ülo Valk
Ülo Valk - Review of Terry Gunnell, editor, Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe
Reviewed by Holly Everett
Holly Everett - Review of Ceri Houlbrook, Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom
Reviewed by Sean Williams
Sean Williams - Review of Rebecca Gibson and James M. Vanderveen, editors, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural: from Animus to Zombi
Reviewed by Kevin S. Amidon
Kevin S. Amidon - Review of Jakob Norberg, The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Reviewed by Genia Boivin
Genia Boivin - Review of Megan Swift, editor, Revolutionary Aftereffects: Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today
Reviewed by Megan Rancier
Megan Rancier - Review of Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon, and Charlotte D’Evelyn, editors, Mongolian Sound Worlds
Reviewed by Bryan Grove
Bryan Grove - Review of Julia Simon, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Mark Hembree, On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of The Portable Community: The Quest for Community in Bluegrass Festival Culture
Reviewed by Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison - Review of R. Grace Morgan, Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains
Reviewed by Lee D. Baker
Lee D. Baker - Review of Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
Reviewed by Süheyla Sarıtaş
Süheyla Sarıtaş - Review of Amy Helene Forss, Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women’s Movement through Material Culture, 1848-2017
Reviewed by Will D. Norton
Will D. Norton - Review of Jasmine Spencer, Telling Animals: Animacies in Dene Narratives
Reviewed by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt - Review of Regna Darnell, The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America
Reviewed by Kathleen Fleming
Kathleen Fleming - Review of Sarah Iles Johnston, Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Nigel Pennick, The Spiritual Power of Masks: Doorways to Realms Unseen
Reviewed by Timothy Evans
Timothy Evans - Review of Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt, editors, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways
Reviewed by Rachel Horner
Rachel Horner - Review of Andrew Snyder, Critical Brass: Street Carnival & Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Reviewed by Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson - Review of Joseph C. Russo, Hard Luck & Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas
Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby – Review of Keith McKenry, Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition
Reviewed by Jonathan L. Ready
Jonathan L. Ready - Review of Saglar Bougdaeva, translator, Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
Reviewed by Ana R. Chelariu
Ana R. Chelariu - Review of Emma Kay, A History of Herbalism: Cure, Cook and Conjure
Reviewed by Gwyneth R. Harris
Gwyneth R. Harris - Review of Salvador Ryan, editor, Birth and the Irish: A Miscellany
Reviewed by Marjorie Hunt
Marjorie Hunt - Review of Pat Collins, Henry Glassie: Fieldwork
Reviewed by Kyle Fulford
Kyle Fulford - Review of Kelley Tatro, Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene
Reviewed by Niger Sultana
Niger Sultana - Review of Nadia Jones-Gailani, Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora
Reviewed by Alex Golub
Alex Golub - Review of Sergei Kan, A Maverick Boasian: The Life & Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser
Reviewed by Jack Daly
Jack Daly - Review of Emily Hilliard, Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia
Reviewed by Jordan Lovejoy
Jordan Lovejoy - Review of Emily Hilliard, Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia