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2013 Reviews

2013 Reviews
Reviewed by Gordon Brotherston
Gordon Brotherston - Review of Dennis Tedlock, 2000 Years of Mayan Literature
Reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson
Jason Baird Jackson - Review of Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem, editors, A Companion to Folklore
Reviewed by Thomas W. Jacobsen
Thomas W. Jacobsen - Review of John Gray, Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide (Black Music Reference Series)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Fine
Elizabeth Fine - Review of Kirin Narayan, Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Keagan LeJeune, Always for the Underdog: Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War (Texas Folklore Society Extra Book Number 23)
Reviewed by Malorine Mathurin Sykes
Malorine Mathurin Sykes - Review of Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork: Motion, Life and Creativity
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Michael T. Taussig, Beauty and the Beast
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Bruno Nettl, Becoming an Ethnomusicologist: A Miscellany of Influences
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of W. Paul Reeve and Michael Scott Van Wagenen, editors, Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Nila Shah, translator, Bhagwandas Patel, editor, Bharath: An Epic of the Dungri Bhils
Reviewed by Marge Steiner
Marge Steiner - Review of Phillips Barry, Fannie H. Eckstorm, and Mary Winslow Smyth, editors, British Ballads from Maine, Second Series: The Development of Popular Songs with Texts and Airs, Versions of Ballads Included in Francis J. Child’s Collection
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Ludger Lieb, Jan Mohr, and Herfried Vögel, editors, Burkard Waldis: Esopus 400 Fabeln und Erzählungen nach der Erstausgabe von 1548 [Esopus. 400 Fables and Tales in Accordance with the First Edition from 1548]
Reviewed by Seth W. Mallios
Seth W. Mallios - Review of Simon J. Bronner, Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Lijun Zhang, Chinese Folk Art Crafts
Reviewed by Malorine Mathurin Sykes
Malorine Mathurin Sykes - Review of Cindy L. Hull, Chippewa Lake: A Community in Search of an Identity
Reviewed by Kristiana Willsey
Kristiana Willsey - Review of Stephen Benson, editor, Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of Amy Lonetree, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Reviewed by Anne Kimzey
Anne Kimzey - Review of Alan Jabbour and Karen Singer Jabbour, Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Euan Cameron, Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Norman N. Miller, Encounters with Witchcraft: Field Notes from Africa
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth, and Maria Hayward, editors, Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450
Reviewed by Greg Kelley
Greg Kelley - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand, Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Sophie Raynard, editor, The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter, translators, John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter, editors, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheacht: An t-Urr. Donnchadh Blàrach (1815-1893) ann am Mac-Talla. Parting, Prophecy, Poetry: Re
Reviewed by Emily Burke
Emily Burke - Review of Trevor J. Blank, editor, Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Reviewed by Eva-Maria Knoll
Eva-Maria Knoll - Review of Xavier Romero-Frias, Folk Tales of the Maldives
Reviewed by Haya Bar-Itzhak
Haya Bar-Itzhak - Review of Dan Ben-Amos, editor and Dov Noy, consulting editor, Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Véchambre, French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History
Reviewed by Karen M. Duffy
Karen M. Duffy - Review of Jacilee Wray, editor, From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Brooks Blevins, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South
Reviewed by Karra Shimabukuro
Karra Shimabukuro - Review of Jacob Grimm, Grimm’s Household Tales
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of W.F.H. Nicolaisen, In the Beginning was the Name: Selected Essays by Professor W.F.H. Nicolaisen
Reviewed by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin - Review of Helen Lawlor, Irish Harping 1900-2010
Reviewed by Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella - Review of Joseph Sciorra, editor, Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Noriko Reider, Japanese Demon Lore: Oni, from Ancient Times to the Present
Reviewed by Jay Mechling
Jay Mechling - Review of Elliott Oring, Just Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Higashi Masao, editor, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales From Japan, Volume 1, 2 and 3: Tales of Old Edo
Reviewed by Christy Reed
Christy Reed - Review of Janis B. Nuckolls, Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Michael Jackson, Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology
Reviewed by Leedom Lefferts
Leedom Lefferts - Review of Pattana Kitiarsa, Mediums, Monks, and Amulets: Thai Popular Buddhism Today
Reviewed by James Stahl
James Stahl - Review of Robert K. McIver, Memory, Jesus, and the Synoptic Gospels
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of William Caulfield, translator, Seán Ó Súilleabháin, editor, Miraculous Plenty: Irish Religious Folktales and Legends
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of Ann Fienup-Riordan, Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska: Conversations with Father René Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup’ik People, 1950-1988
Reviewed by Robert Derr
Robert Derr - Review of Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System
Reviewed by Henry Spiller
Henry Spiller - Review of Margaret Kartomi, Musical Journeys in Sumatra
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Review of Rane Willerslev, translated by Coilín ÓhAiseadha, On the Run in Siberia
Reviewed by Matthew Hale
Matthew Hale - Review of Christopher Pinney, Photography and Anthropology
Reviewed by Brad Leftwich
Brad Leftwich - Review of Howard Wight Marshall, Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri
Reviewed by Monica Foote
Monica Foote - Review of Montana Miller, Playing Dead: Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk Driving Tragedies (Ritual, Festival, and Celebration Series)
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Polyphony of Ceriana: The Compagnia Sacco - (DVD)
Reviewed by Teri Klassen
Teri Klassen - Review of Sandi Fox, Quilts: California Bound, California Made, 1840-1940
Reviewed by Juan Francisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Stephen Olbrys Gencarella and Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Readings on Rhetoric and Performance
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Sascha Bru, Laurence van Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, Hubert van den Berg, editors, Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avante-Garde and High and Low Culture
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Unni Wikan, Resonance: Beyond the Words
Reviewed by Gabrielle A. Berlinger
Gabrielle A. Berlinger - Review of Simon J. Bronner, editor, Revisioning Ritual: Jewish Traditions in Transition (Jewish Cultural Studies Vol. 3)
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Michelle Wibbelsman, Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community
Reviewed by Maria Kennedy
Maria Kennedy - Review of Matthew Jefferies and Mike Tyldesley, editors, Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Robert Chandler, editor, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platanov
Reviewed by Marie-Pierre Gibert
Marie-Pierre Gibert - Review of Judith Brin Ingber, editor, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin
Jeffrey Mifflin - Review of Nancy Marie Brown, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Marion Jacobson, Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Eric L. Ball, Sustained by Eating, Consumed by Eating Right: Reflections, Rhymes, Rants, and Recipes
Reviewed by Ronald Baker
Ronald Baker - Review of William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Thanasis Maskaleris, translator and editor, Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis: Will the Humans Be Saviors of the Earth?
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Charles Zika, The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Reviewed by Incoronata Inserra
Incoronata Inserra - Review of Jason Pine, The Art of Making Do in Naples
Reviewed by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin - Review of Henry Whyte, The Celtic Lyre
Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin
Jeffrey Mifflin - Review of John T. Koch and Antone Minard, editors, The Celts: History, Life, and Culture
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of J.M. van der Laan and Andrew Weeks, editors, The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus
Reviewed by John A. Burrison
John A. Burrison - Review of Tina Bucuvalas, The Florida Folklife Reader
Reviewed by Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke
Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke - Review of Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground: Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of E.J. Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World’s Mythologies
Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of Giovan Francesco Straparola, translated by W.G. Waters, edited by Donald Beecher, The Pleasant Nights (The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library)
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Ruth B. Bottigheimer, editor, Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Douglas Harrison, Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music
Reviewed by Maggie Holtzberg
Maggie Holtzberg - Review of Robert Cogswell, Tradition: Tennessee Lives & Legacies
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of Greg Stevenson and Joseph Gallagher, Traditional Cottages of County Donegal
Reviewed by Matthew Alley
Matthew Alley - Review of Thomas Jacobsen, Traditional New Orleans Jazz: Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music
Reviewed by Raymond J. Demallie
Raymond J. Demallie - Review of Garrick A. Bailey, editor, Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche
Reviewed by Renee Rothman
Renee Rothman - Review of Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn, editors, Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Pierre Hecker, Turkish Metal-Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Reviewed by E. Moore Quinn
E. Moore Quinn - Review of Rodney Harrison, editor, Understanding the Politics of Heritage
Reviewed by Amber Slaven
Amber Slaven - Review of Elizabeth Stewart, edited by Alison McMorland, Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers’ Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Marion Bowman and Ülo Valk, editors, Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life: Expressions of Belief
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Greg Olson, Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen
Reviewed by Dev N. Pathak
Dev N. Pathak - Review of Roy W. Hamilton, Weavers’ Stories from Island Southeast Asia (Fowler Museum Textile Series)
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Gail de Vos, What Happens Next?: Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe
Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe - Review of Arthur Asa Berger, What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Laura Feldt, Wilderness in Mythology and Religion (Religion and Society)
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Jason Baird Jackson, Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Virginia Lynn Moylan, Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade