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2024 Reviews

2024 Reviews
Reviewed by Joseph Falaky Nagy
Joseph Falaky Nagy - Review of Andy Orchard, editor and translator, The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Volume 1); A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Volume 2)
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Howard Wight Marshall, Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Claude Lecouteux, King Solomon the Magus: Master of the Djinns and Occult Traditions of East and West, translated by Jon E. Graham
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Håland
Evy Johanne Håland - Review of Nicola Laneri and Anna Perdibon, editors, Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Anastasiya Astapova, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State
Reviewed by Donald Braid
Donald Braid - Review of John D. Niles, Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller
Reviewed by T. Ajéwọlé Duckett
T. Ajéwọlé Duckett - Review of Oyèrónkè Oládémọ, Women in Yoruba Religions
Reviewed by Tok Thompson, University of Southern California
Tok Thompson - Review of David Leeming, Tales of the Earth: Native North American Creation Mythology
Reviewed by Michael Lempert
Michael Lempert - Review of Richard Bauman and Patrick Feaster, A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings
Reviewed by Kirstin C. Erickson
Kirstin C. Erickson - Review of Elizabeth Ramírez, In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas
Reviewed by Simon J. Bronner
Simon J. Bronner - Review of Sheila Bock, Claiming Space: Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards
Reviewed by Claire Schmidt, Missouri Valley College
Claire Schmidt - Review of Michael Brown, Medieval Plants and their Uses
Reviewed by Lee Haring, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Lee Haring - Review of Bruce Jackson, The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Reviewed by Charley Camp, Maryland Institute College of Art
Charley Camp - Review of Noel Lobley, Sound Fragments: From Field Recordings to African Electronic Stories
Reviewed by Cándida Jáquez
Cándida Jáquez - Review of Manuel R. Cuellar, Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation
Reviewed by Moira Marsh
Moira Marsh - Review of Teresa Milbrodt, Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality
Reviewed by Rob Bowman
Rob Bowman - Review of Laurie Matheson, ed., Music in Black American Life: 1945-2020
Reviewed by Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark - Review of Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, and Kate Parker Horigan, We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery
Reviewed by Joseph Ozias
Joseph Ozias - Review of Steve Zeitlin, JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
Reviewed by Pyar Seth
Pyar Seth - Review of Langston Collin Wilkins, Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town
Reviewed by Clementine Bordeaux
Clementine Bordeaux - Review of Ella Cara Deloria, The Dakota Way of Life, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié, with an afterword by Philip Joseph Delorias
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Kristine M. McCusker, Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955
Reviewed by Ullrich Kockel
Ullrich Kockel - Review of John Borrows and Kent McNeil, eds., Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Courtney Marie Burrell, Otto Höfler’s Characterisation of the Germanic Peoples: From Sacred Men’s Bands to Social Daemonism
Reviewed by Ragini Mishra
Ragini Mishra - Review of David Scheinbaum, Varanasi: City Immersed in Prayer
Reviewed by John McDowell
John McDowell - Review of Patricia Martínez, Hermán A. Martínez, and the Hilos Culturales Board of Directors, Hilos Culturales: Cultural Threads of the San Luis Valley
Reviewed by Linnea Hill
Linnea Hill - Review of Cegá K’inna Nakóda Oyáde, The Story of Carry the Kettle First Nation
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Jennifer Eastman Attebery, As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of François-Marie Luzel, edited, translated and introduced by Michael Wilson, The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany
Reviewed by Iryna Voloshyna
Iryna Voloshyna - Review of Frances A. Barton, John K. Novak, and James P. Leary, Czech Songs in Texas
Reviewed by John Bealle
John Bealle - Review of Deborah Justice, (White)Washing Our Sins Away: American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity
Reviewed by Bryan Grove
Bryan Grove - Review of Laurie Matheson, Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945
Reviewed by Michael Lange
Michael Lange - Review of Tore Størvold, Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland
Reviewed by Joel Best
Joel Best - Review of Tom Mould, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Alessandro Testa, Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe
Reviewed by Cynthea L. Ainsworth
Cynthea L. Ainsworth - Review of Veronica Strang, Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis
Reviewed by Raymond Summerville
Raymond Summerville - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats: The Proverbial Rhetoric of John F. Kennedy
Reviewed by Bill Ellis
Bill Ellis - Review of Ben Bridges, Ross Brillhart, and Diane E. Goldstein, eds. Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID
Reviewed by Jean R. Freedman
Jean R. Freedman - Review of Jack Zipes, Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Sarah Gordon
Sarah Gordon - Review of Jeffrey S. Denis, Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Benjamin G. Rader, When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes
Reviewed by Susan Eleuterio
Susan Eleuterio - Review of Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff, editor, Performing Craft in Mexico: Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation
Reviewed by Sean Williams
Sean Williams - Review of Seán Mac Giollarnáth, compiler, and Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson, translators, Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach
Reviewed by Intisar Sabah Alshammari
Intisar Sabah Alshammari - Review of Anne E. Duggan, The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Claudia Méndez Wright
Claudia Méndez Wright – Review of Yasmine Musharbash and Ilana Gershon, editors, Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters
Reviewed by Richard Jones-Bamman
Richard Jones-Bamman - Review of Barbara Sjoholm, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
Reviewed by Nataliya Bezborodova
Nataliya Bezborodova - Review of Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity
Reviewed by Byran Grove
Bryan Grove - Review of Margo Cooper, Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews
Reviewed by Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Hande Birkalan-Gedik - Review of Lauri Harvilahti, Audun Kjus, Clíona O’Carroll, Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Fredrik Skott and Rita Treija (eds.), Visions and Traditions: Knowledge Production and Tradition Archives
Reviewed by Timothy H. Evans
Timothy H. Evans - Review of Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme, editors, Just Wonder: Shifting Perspectives in Tradition
Reviewed by Bryan Grove
Bryan Grove - Review of Sarah Jane Nelson, Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector
Reviewed by Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera - Review of Brenda M. Romero, Susan M. Asai, David A. McDonald, Andrew G. Snyder, and Katelyn E. Best, editors, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice
Reviewed by Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu Yakubu
Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu - Review of Rangira Bea Gallimore and Gerise Herndon, editors, Art From Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Anna Lomax Wood, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
Reviewed by Tom Mould
Tom Mould - Review of Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America
Reviewed by Kerry Noonan
Kerry Noonan - Review of Steve Siporin, The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of Marina Bokelman and David Evans, Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
Reviewed by Subash Giri
Subash Giri - Review of Shalini R. Ayyagari, Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert
Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Ken Carriere, Opimōtēwina wīna kapagamawāt Wītigōwa / Journeys of The One to Strike the Wetigo
Reviewed by Victoria Stewart
Victoria Stewart - Review of Coppélie Cocq and Thomas A. DuBois, Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North