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2014 Reviews

2014 Reviews
Reviewed by Karen M. Duffy
Karen M. Duffy - Review of Nicholas Bell, A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
Reviewed by Bruce Granville Miller
Bruce Granville Miller - Review of Pauline Hillaire, edited by Gregory P. Fields, A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire
Reviewed by Michael Ann Williams
Michael Ann Williams - Review of Lawrence Rodgers and Jerrold Hirsch, editors, America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin and American Culture
Reviewed by Roman I. Shiyan
Roman I. Shiyan - Review of Christoph Wulf, translated by Deidre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta and Richard J. Rose, Anthropology: A Continental Perspective
Reviewed by Bella Ginzbursky-Blum
Bella Ginzbursky-Blum - Review of Sibelan Forrester, translator, Sibelan Forrester, editor, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
Reviewed by John A. Burrison
John A. Burrison - Review of Betsy K. White, Backcountry Makers: An Artisan History of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee
Reviewed by Meghann E. Jack
Meghann E. Jack - Review of June Skinner Sawyers, Bearing the People Away: The Portable Highland Clearances Companion
Reviewed by Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy - Review of Philippe Descola, translated by Marshall Sahlins, Beyond Nature and Culture
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Fred C. Fussell and Steve Kruger, Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Ann K. Ferrell, Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century
Reviewed by Tod Swanson
Tod Swanson - Review of Jonathan D. Hill and Jean-Pierre Chaumeil, editors, Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of G. A. Megas, Anna Angelopoulos, Aigli Brouskou, Marianthi Kaplanoglou, and Emmanouela Katrinaki, Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales (Folklore Fellows Communications 303)
Reviewed by Dianne Dugaw
Dianne Dugaw - Review of Mary Ellen Brown, Still Unfinished: F.J. Child’s Ballad Discoveries and (Problematic) “Evocations”
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Paul U. Unschuld, and Zheng Jinsheng, Chinese Traditional Healing: The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the Early 20th Century
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Timothy R. Tangherlini, editor and translator, Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)
Reviewed by Dina Bennett
Dina Bennett - Review of John O. Hodges, Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper's Son
Reviewed by Puja Sahney
Puja Sahney - Review of Christine L. Garlough, Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances
Reviewed by Charlotte Frisbie
Charlotte Frisbie - Review of Lloyd L. Lee, editor, Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies)
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Radu R. Florescu and Matei Cazacu, Dracula’s Bloodline: A Florescu Family Saga
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Daniel Ogden, Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds: A Sourcebook
Reviewed by Gabrielle A. Berlinger
Gabrielle A. Berlinger - Review of Raphael Patai and Haya Bar-Itzhak, editor, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Roger Sanjek, Ethnography in Today's World: Color Full Before Color Blind (Haney Foundation Series)
Reviewed by Timon Kaple
Timon Kaple - Review of Kip Lornell, Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Pauleena M. MacDougall, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865-1946
Reviewed by Frank de Caro
Frank de Caro - Review of Kenneth L. Untiedt, editor, First Timers and Old Timers: The Texas Folklore Society Fire Burns On
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Timothy Baycroft and David Hopkin, Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Paulina B. Lewicka, Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean
Reviewed by Ray Cashman
Ray Cashman - Review of Séamas Ó Catháin, Formation of a Folklorist: The Visit of James Hamilton Delargy (Séamus Ó Duilearga) to Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia and Germany, 1 April–29 September 1928 (Scríbhinní Béaloidis / Folklore Studies 18)
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Joshua Tucker, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars: Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
Reviewed by Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld - Review of Regina Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann, editors, Heritage Regimes and the State
Reviewed by Matthew Alley
Matthew Alley - Review of Diane Pecknold, editor, Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of John Donald Robb, Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest: A Self-Portrait of a People
Reviewed by Paulina Guerrero
Paulina Guerrero - Review of Catherine L. Kurland and Enrique R. Lamadrid, Hotel Mariachi: Urban Spaces and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles
Reviewed by Meghan Smith
Meghan Smith - Review of Robin C. Dietrick, I am a Craftsman: 40 at 40
Reviewed by John Bealle
John Bealle - Review of Ron Pen, I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles
Reviewed by George Katsadoros
George Katsadoros - Review of Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, editors, Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic
Reviewed by Malorine Mathurin Sykes
Malorine Mathurin Sykes - Review of Garret W. Cook and Thomas A. Offit, with contributions from Rhonda Taube, Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
Reviewed by Elissa R. Henken
Elissa R. Henken - Review of Patrick Sims-Williams, Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
Reviewed by Moira Marsh
Moira Marsh - Review of Christie Davies, Jokes and Targets
Reviewed by Jacqueline Thursby
Jacqueline Thursby - Review of Eric A. Eliason and Tom Mould, editors, Latter-Day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Julie Henigan, Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution)
Reviewed by Daniel Reed
Daniel Reed - Review of Jesse Weaver Shipley, Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship
Reviewed by Alexandra Kostina
Alexandra Kostina - Review of Jack V. Haney, translator, editor and translator, Long, Long Tales from the Russian North
Reviewed by Michael Young
Michael Young - Review of Gerald W. Creed, Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Reviewed by Shayna Silverstein
Shayna Silverstein - Review of Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsén, Heather Bursheh, and David A. McDonald, editors, Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance Since 1900
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Luisa Del Giudice and Nancy Van Deusen, Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Andrew Sneddon, Possessed by the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Murphy Hicks Henry, Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass
Reviewed by Sara Cleto
Sara Cleto - Review of Anne E. Duggan, Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy
Reviewed by Eric Bindler
Eric Bindler - Review of Lara Putnam, Radical Moves Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Angela McMillan Howell, Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing up Black in Rural Alabama
Reviewed by Mary Beth Stein
Mary Beth Stein - Review of Albrecht Lehmann, Reden über Erfahrung: Kulturwissenschaftliche Bewusstseinsanalyse des Erzählens, Eine Einführung
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Charles E. Morris III, Remembering the AIDS Quilt
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of Sandra L. Beckett, editor, Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Merrill Kaplan and Timothy R. Tangherlini, editors, News from Other Worlds: Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture (Wildcat Canyon Advanced Seminars Occasional Monographs I)
Reviewed by Myc Wiatrowski
Myc Wiatrowski - Review of Russell Frank, Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet
Reviewed by Lisa Gabbert
Lisa Gabbert - Review of Jessie L. Embry, editor, Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West
Reviewed by John Dorst
John Dorst - Review of John Miles Foley, Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Karl Reichl, editor, Medieval Oral Literature (De Gruyter Lexikon)
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Siobhan Brownlie, Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of John Morgan O’Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, editors, Music and Conflict
Reviewed by David Stanley
David Stanley - Review of Linda Scarangella McNenly, Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney
Reviewed by Kanya Wattanagun
Kanya Wattanagun - Review of Coeli Barry, editor, Rights to Culture: Heritage, Language, and Community in Thailand
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Clemens Cavallin, Ritualization and Human Interiority
Reviewed by Shaun Williams
Shaun Williams - Review of Carol Silverman, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (American Musicspheres)
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of Fikret Berkes, Sacred Ecology
Reviewed by Kate Parker Horigan
Kate Parker Horigan - Review of Barry Jean Ancelet, Marcia Gaudet, and Carl Lindahl, editors, Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Samuel Schmidt, translated, Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of Paja Faudree, Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico:
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Kari Ellen Gade, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Vol. 2: Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas, Part 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Matt Gillan, Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
Reviewed by Thomas A. DuBois
Thomas A. DuBois - Review of Lotte Tarkka, translated by Leila Virtanen, Songs of the Border People: Genre, Reflexivity, and Performance in Karelian Oral Poetry (Folklore Fellows Communications)
Reviewed by Sadhana Naithani
Sadhana Naithani - Review of James Mulholland, Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire 1730-1820
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of David Whiteis, Southern Soul-Blues
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Margaret Ziolkowski, Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Keavy Martin, Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature
Reviewed by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt - Review of Frank de Caro, Stories of Our Lives: Memory, History, Narrative
Reviewed by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler - Review of Robert Cancel, Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Reviewed by Sunayani Bhattacharya
Sunayani Bhattacharya - Review of Eham Mohamed Helmy El-Meligi, Symbolism in the Novels of Tawfiq Al-Hakim and V.S.Naipaul: A Comparative Study of Literary Techniques
Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin
Jeffrey Mifflin - Review of Willem de Blécourt, Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of James Alexander Kapaló, Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice
Reviewed by Jan Rosenberg
Jan Rosenberg - Review of Anna R. Beresin, The Art of Play: Recess and the Practice of Invention
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Kenneth Schweitzer, The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming: Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
Reviewed by Joshua Clegg Caffery
Joshua Clegg Caffery - Review of Stephen Wade, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
Reviewed by Margaret R. Yocom
Margaret R. Yocom - Review of Craig Mishler, The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale
Reviewed by Joshua Clegg Caffery
Joshua Clegg Caffery - Review of Christopher J. Smith, The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
Reviewed by Amy Brunvand
Amy Brunvand - Review of Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Reviewed by Rhonda S. Fair
Rhonda S. Fair - Review of Gary B. Mills, revised by Elizabeth Shown Mills, The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Jack Zipes, editor, The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Eda Kalmre, The Human Sausage Factory: A Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Beth Szczepanski, The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts
Reviewed by Karra Shimabukuro
Karra Shimabukuro - Review of David R. Slavitt, translator, The Lays of Marie de France
Reviewed by Renee Rothman
Renee Rothman - Review of Adam R. Boyce, The Man from Vermont: Charles Ross Taggart, The Old Country Fiddler
Reviewed by Nader Masarwah
Nader Masarwah - Review of Philip Ciantar, The Ma'luf in Contemporary Libya: An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Brent A. Stypczynski, The Modern Literary Werewolf: A Critical Study of the Mutable Motif
Reviewed by Charles G. Zug III
Charles G. Zug III - Review of Carol Crown and Cheryl Rivers, editors, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Charlotte Joy, The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: From UNESCO to Djenné
Reviewed by Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa - Review of Guntis Šmidchens, The Power of Song: Nonviolent Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
Reviewed by Ülo Valk
Ülo Valk - Review of James Kapaló, Éva Pócs, and William Ryan, editors, The Power of Words: Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Cristina Bacchilega, Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Kwesi Yankah, The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric
Reviewed by Katie Peebles
Katie Peebles - Review of Andrew Taylor, The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth
Reviewed by Frank de Caro
Frank de Caro - Review of William Ferris, The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
Reviewed by Ian MacMillen
Ian MacMillen - Review of Richard March, The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)
Reviewed by Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark - Review of Matti Kamppinen and Pekka Hakamies, The Theory of Culture of Folklorist Lauri Honko, 1932-2002: The Ecology of Tradition
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of David Williams, The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Narrative
Reviewed by Alan Jabbour
Alan Jabbour - Review of Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Pekka Hakamies and Anneli Honko, editor, Theoretical Milestones: Selected Writings of Lauri Honko (Folklore Fellows Communications 304)
Reviewed by Kirstin Erickson
Kirstin Erickson - Review of Ruth Behar, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys
Reviewed by Stefan Groth
Stefan Groth - Review of Haidy Geismar, Treasured Possessions: Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property
Reviewed by Jessica Evans Jain
Jessica Evans Jain - Review of Laurie A. Frederik, Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba
Reviewed by Kristina Downs
Kristina Downs - Review of Patrick J. Murphy, Unriddling the Exeter Riddles
Reviewed by Michael Young
Michael Young - Review of Jennifer R. Cash, Villages on Stage: Folklore and Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia)
Reviewed by Aiko Yamashiro
Aiko Yamashiro - Review of Franklin Odo, Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i
Reviewed by Kristiana Willsey
Kristiana Willsey - Review of Eric A. Eliason and Tad Tuleja, editors, Warrior Ways: Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
Reviewed by Kristina Downs
Kristina Downs - Review of Rachel Lee Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Joanna Brooks, Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
Reviewed by Michael Lundell
Michael Lundell - Review of S. K. Mendoza Forrest, Witches, Whores, and Sorcerors: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
Reviewed by Grey Larsen
Grey Larsen - Review of Dale A. Olsen, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Mary M. Gergen, and Kenneth J. Gergen, Playing with Purpose: Adventures in Performative Social Science