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2012 Reviews
2012 Reviews

Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of David Z. Zuwiyya, editor, A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Reviewed by Eric Bindler
Eric Bindler - Review of Solimar Otero, Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Reviewed by Shingo Hamada
Shingo Hamada - Review of Sarah M. Strong, Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shin’yoshu
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Eilís Brady, All in! All in!: A Selection of Dublin Children’s Traditional Street-Games with Rhymes and Music
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Eric Gable, Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau
Reviewed by Andrew Rouse
Andrew Rouse - Review of Patricia Fumerton, and Anita Guerrini, with Kris McAbee, Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Reviewed by Robert E. Walls
Robert E. Walls - Review of Christopher F. Roth, Becoming Tsimshian: The Social Life of Names
Reviewed by Anne Murphy
Anne Murphy - Review of Anjali Gera Roy, Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond
Reviewed by Jeremy Stoll
Jeremy Stoll - Review of Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam (art); Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand (story), Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability: Incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Eric A. Eliason, Black Velvet Art
Reviewed by Fileve Tlaloc Palmer
Fileve Tlaloc Palmer - Review of Michael Wessels, Bushman Letters: Interpreting |Xam Narratives
Reviewed by Danille Christensen
Danille Christensen - Review of Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indiana’s Down-Home Cafes
Reviewed by Danille Christensen
Danille Christensen - Review of Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Jolene Ketzenberger, Cafe Indiana Cookbook
Reviewed by Kristina Wirtz
Kristina Wirtz - Review of Umi Vaughan and Carlos Aldama, Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum
Reviewed by Dev N. Pathak
Dev N. Pathak - Review of Vijaydan Detha, translated by Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir, Chouboli & Other Stories, Vol 1 & 2
Reviewed by Renee Rothman
Renee Rothman - Review of James Clark, Connecticut’s Fife and Drum Tradition
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Tzvi Abusch and Daniel Schwemer, Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals, Volume One
Reviewed by John Bodnar
John Bodnar - Review of Douglas A. Boyd, Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
Reviewed by Robert Derr
Robert Derr - Review of Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo (Second Edition)
Reviewed by Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke
Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke - Review of Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara, editors, Creolization as Cultural Creativity
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Paul V. Kroskrity, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities
Reviewed by Lawrence Ross
Lawrence Ross - Review of Andrew N. Weintraub, Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of R. Andrew Chesnut, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Diana Matut, Dichtung und Musik im frühneuzeitlichen Aschkenas (2 vols.)
Reviewed by Wolfgang Mieder
Wolfgang Mieder - Review of Joan Houston Hall, editor, Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z
Reviewed by Angeline Shaka
Angeline Shaka - Review of Christine Thomas, editor, Don’t Look Back: Hawaiian Myths Made New
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance
Reviewed by Karra Shimabukuro
Karra Shimabukuro - Review of Dean Rader, Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI
Reviewed by Robert Derr
Robert Derr - Review of Paul Hardwick, English Medieval Misericords: The Margins of Meaning
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Catherine J. Allen, Foxboy: Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Jensen Lotte, Joep Leerssen and Marita Mathijsen, editors, Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation
Reviewed by Jessica Merrill
Jessica Merrill - Review of Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers and Marek Nekula, editors, Funktional-strukturale Ethnographie in Europa
Reviewed by Holly Everett
Holly Everett - Review of Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death
Reviewed by Sunayani Bhattacharya
Sunayani Bhattacharya - Review of Fabrizio M. Ferrari, Guilty Males and Proud Females: Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Rich Remsberg, Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
Reviewed by Robert Derr
Robert Derr - Review of Elizabeth Tucker, Haunted Southern Tier
Reviewed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Review of Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Uliashev, Hidden Rituals and Public Performances: Traditions and Belonging among the Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 19)
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of Nicolás Kanellos, Hispanic Immigrant Literature
Reviewed by Michael Taft
Michael Taft - Review of Chaise LaDousa, House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith in a College Town
Reviewed by Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark - Review of Johanna Björkholm, Immateriellt Kulturarv Som Begrepp och Process: Folkloristiska Perspektiv på Kulturarv i Finlands Svenskbygder med Folkmusik som Exempel
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Jon Wolseth, Jesus and the Gang: Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras
Reviewed by Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering - Review of Jon Stratton, Jews, Race and Popular Music
Reviewed by Eric Morales
Eric Morales - Review of Thomas A. Green, editor, Latino American Folktales
Reviewed by Paul Cowdell
Paul Cowdell - Review of Martha Sims and Martine Stephens, Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions, Second Edition
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales: Lupin, Bouki, and Other Creole Stories in French Dialect and English Translation
Reviewed by Lauren Welker Kolenko
Lauren Welker Kolenko - Review of Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene, editors, Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
Reviewed by Hilary Finchum-Sung
Hilary Finchum-Sung - Review of Jun-yon Hwang, Jin-Ah Kim, and Yong-Shik Lee, editors, Musical Notations of Korea (Korean Musical Series 4)
Reviewed by Brittany Warman
Brittany Warman - Review of Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan, Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
Reviewed by Anthony Guest-Scott
Anthony Guest-Scott - Review of Bruno Nettl, Nettl’s Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Alvin O. Korte, Nosotros: A Study of Everyday Meanings in Hispano New Mexico
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Reviewed by Thomas Solomon
Thomas Solomon - Review of Pamela Karantonis, and Dylan Robinson, editors, Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Tatyana Mikhailova, Jonathan Roper, Andrey Toporkov, and Dmitri Nikolayev, editors, Oral Charms in Structural and Comparative Light
Reviewed by Sarah Quick
Sarah Quick - Review of Teresa J. Wilkins, Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Michael I. Niman, People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, Second Edition
Reviewed by Coppelie Cocq
Coppelie Cocq - Review of Alice Rearden, translator, Ann Fienup-Riordan, editor, Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories: Meanings of Place of the Bering Sea Coast
Reviewed by Darlynn Dietrich
Darlynn Dietrich - Review of Charnell Havens and Vera Marie Badertscher, Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist
Reviewed by Stiofa N Cadhla
Stiofa N Cadhla - Review of Kenneth E. Nilsen, editor, Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 5: Fifth Scottish Gaelic Research Conference
Reviewed by Kurt Baer
Kurt Baer - Review of Nathan Hesselink, SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Yasushi Oki and Paolo Santangelo, Shan’ge, the ’Mountain Songs’: Love Songs in Ming China
Reviewed by Nic Hartmann
Nic Hartmann - Review of Peter Narváez, Sonny’s Dream: Essays on Newfoundland Folklore and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Mike Heffley
Mike Heffley - Review of Victor Grauer, Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History
Reviewed by Hsin-Wen Hsu
Hsin-Wen Hsu - Review of Chris Goertzen, Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests
Reviewed by Jill Hemming Austin
Jill Hemming Austin - Review of Tom Mould, Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
Reviewed by Wanda G. Addison
Wanda G. Addison - Review of Audun Kjus, translated by John C. Anthony, Stories at Trial
Reviewed by Brian Sturm
Brian Sturm - Review of Gail De Vos, Storytelling for Young Adults: a Guide to Tales for Teens, Second Edition
Reviewed by Arthur Lawton
Arthur Lawton - Review of Lori Ann Garner, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs
Reviewed by Donald Braid
Donald Braid - Review of Gregory Schrempp, The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Anthony Bak Buccitelli - Review of Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, editors, The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of Lisa Gilman, The Dance of Politics: Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Reviewed by Jude Coulter-Pultz
Jude Coulter-Pultz - Review of Burton Watson, translator, Haruo Shirane, editor, The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales
Reviewed by Megan Solon
Megan Solon - Review of Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy, The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Frank de Caro, editor, The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists
Reviewed by Greg Kelley
Greg Kelley - Review of Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla, editors, The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Jack Zipes, The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Antony Polonsky, The Jews in Poland and Russia, Vol 1: 1350-1881; Vol 2: 1881-1914
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Barbara Dancygier, The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Bengt af Klintberg, The Types of the Swedish Folk Legend (FF Communications 300)
Reviewed by James Ruchala
James Ruchala - Review of Laura Lohman, Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium, editors, Varieties of Narrative Analysis
Reviewed by Bridget Anthonia Yakubu
Bridget Anthonia Yakubu - Review of David T. Doris, Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria
Reviewed by Will Pooley
Will Pooley - Review of Timothy Chesters, Walking by Night: Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Lisa Gabbert, Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, Change, and the Good of the Community
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Venla Sykäri, Words as Events: Cretan Mantinádes in Performance and Composition
Reviewed by Lijun Zhang
Lijun Zhang - Review of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, editor, World Heritage Angkor and Beyond: Circumstances and Implications of UNESCO Listings in Cambodia (Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property)
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Minna Skafte Jensen, Writing Homer: A Study Based on Results from Modern Fieldwork (Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 4)