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2011 Reviews

2011 Reviews
Reviewed by Rory Turner
Rory Turner - Review of Patrick R. McNaughton, A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ball? and the Art of West African Masquerade
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Sadhana Naithani, The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Post-Colonial Folkloristics
Reviewed by Adam Zolkover
Adam Zolkover - Review of Thomas A. Green, editor, African American Folktales
Reviewed by David M. Westley
David M. Westley - Review of Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance
Reviewed by Raymond A. Hall
Raymond A. Hall - Review of Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality
Reviewed by Mike Heffley
Mike Heffley - Review of John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
Reviewed by Noriko T. Reider
Noriko T. Reider - Review of Michelle Osterfeld Li, Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales
Reviewed by Julian Carrillo
Julian Carrillo - Review of Manuel F. Medrano, Américo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography (Al Filo: Mexican-American Studies Series)
Reviewed by Debashree Dattaray
Debashree Dattaray - Review of Pratibha Mandal,An Approach to the Cultural Mapping of North-East India in Respect of Tribal Tales
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Heather Montgomery, An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Lives
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of Amanda Villepastour, Ancient Text Messages of the Yorùbá Bàtá Drum: Cracking the Code (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Michael Lundell
Michael Lundell - Review of Samer M. Ali, Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages: Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past
Reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson
Jason Baird Jackson - Review of Bill Ivey, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
Reviewed by Lesley Ham
Lesley Ham - Review of Thomas A. Green, editor, Asian American Folktales
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan, Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Reviewed by Charlotte Frisbie
Charlotte Frisbie - Review of Malcolm D. Benally, editor, Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Reviewed by Michael Taft
Michael Taft - Review of Steve Cushing, Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire, Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
Reviewed by James . Cunningham
James E. Cunningham - Review of Chadwick Corntassel Smith, Rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith, Building One Fire: Art + World View in Cherokee Life
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Nils-Arvid Bringéus, translated by John Irons, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow: A Swedish Pioneer in Folklore (FF Communications, No. 298)
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Raphael Falco, Charisma and Myth
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Joe Perry, Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History
Reviewed by Adam Zolkover
Adam Zolkover - Review of Susan Honeyman, Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature (Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales)
Reviewed by Beverly Gordon
Beverly Gordon - Review of Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran, editors, Contemporary African Fashion
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Yiorgos Anagnostou, Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Anna Lillios, Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Reviewed by Neni Panourgia
Neni Panourgia - Review of James M. Wilce, Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
Reviewed by Robert A. Segal
Robert A. Segal - Review of Charles Lindholm, Culture and Authenticity
Reviewed by Eric Morales
Eric Morales - Review of Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, editors, Dancing across Borders / Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos
Reviewed by Tyron Cooper
Tyron Cooper - Review of Jerrilyn McGregory, Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, editors, Early Chinese Religion, Part One and Two: Shang through Han (1250 BC–220 AD)
Reviewed by Yvonne J. Milspaw
Yvonne J. Milspaw - Review of Daniel Doucet, Élizabeth Lefort: Canada’s Artist in Wool/ L’artiste canadienne de la laine
Reviewed by Robert Glenn Howard
Robert Glenn Howard - Review of Theresa Heyd, Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Marilyn Pemberton, editor, Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Roman I. Shiyan
Roman I. Shiyan - Review of Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson, editors, Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings
Reviewed by Jan Brunvand
Jan Brunvand - Review of Simon J. Bronner, Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix, editors, Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity
Reviewed by Donald Haase
Donald Haase - Review of Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Tales: A New History
Reviewed by Richard Martin
Richard Martin - Review of Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou, editors, Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean
Reviewed by Nicolasa M. Chavez
Nicolasa M. Chavez - Review of Michelle Heffner Hayes, Flamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Jill Mann, From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain
Reviewed by Robert A. Segal
Robert A. Segal - Review of Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey through Myth and Legend
Reviewed by Puja Sahney
Puja Sahney - Review of Karen G. Ruffle, Gender, Sainthood and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of James McCormick, and Macy Wyatt, Ghosts of the Bluegrass
Reviewed by Jeff Todd Titon
Jeff Todd Titon - Review of Ray Allen, Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Albrecht Classen, editor, Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Methods, Trends
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of D. Jean Clandinin, editor, Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology
Reviewed by Craig Mishler
Craig Mishler - Review of Susanne Ziegler, editor, Historical Sources and Source Criticism (ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources: Proceedings from the 17th International Conference in Stockholm, Sweden May 21-25, 2008)
Reviewed by David Delgado Shorter
David Delgado Shorter - Review of Paul M. Liffman, Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation: Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty Claims (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Reviewed by Fugan Dineen
Fugan Dineen - Review of Shonaleeka Kaul, Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India
Reviewed by Juwen Zhang
Juwen Zhang - Review of Stephen Jones, In Search of the Folk Daoists of Northern China
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Burt Feintuch, In the Blood: Cape Breton Conversations on Culture
Reviewed by Raymond J. Demallie
Raymond J. Demallie - Review of John W. Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
Reviewed by Colin Mathias Justin
Colin Mathias Justin - Review of Kumar Mahabir, Indian Caribbean Folklore Spirits
Reviewed by Meghan Glass
Meghan Glass - Review of Judith Ostrowitz, Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories
Reviewed by Bradley Good
Bradley Good - Review of Eric C. Rath and Stephanie Assmann, editors, Japanese Foodways: Past & Present
Reviewed by Pamela A. Moro
Pamela A. Moro - Review of Naomi Appleton, Jâtaka Stories in Theravâda Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Jonathan Deutsch and Rachel D. Saks, Jewish American Food Culture
Reviewed by Marge Steiner
Marge Steiner - Review of Marge Steiner, Joe Holmes—Here I Am Amongst You: Songs, Music and Traditions of an Ulsterman
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Thomas Kerth, King Rother And His Bride: Quests and Counter-Quests
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Kira Van Deusen, Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Geoffrey D. Kimball, translator, Koasati Traditional Narratives
Reviewed by Jeremy Stoll
Jeremy Stoll - Review of José Alaniz, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Jessica Joyce Christie, editor, Landscapes of Origin in the Americas: Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Michael Weiss, Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy: The Ritual Complex of the Third and Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae
Reviewed by Eric Morales
Eric Morales - Review of Zilkia Janer, Latino Food Culture
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Sebastian Coxon, Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales 1350–1525
Reviewed by David J. Puglia
David J. Puglia - Review of Michael Kinsella, Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat
Reviewed by Yvonne Toepfer
Yvonne Toepfer - Review of Donna Eder, with Regina Holyan, Life Lessons through Storytelling: Children’s Exploration of Ethics
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of James L. Fitzsimmons and Izumi Shimada, editors, Living with the Dead: Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica
Reviewed by Sadhana Naithani
Sadhana Naithani - Review of Sumanta Banerjee, Logic in a Popular Form: Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
Reviewed by Susan E. Oehler Herrick
Susan E. Oehler Herrick - Review of Peter C. Muir, Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850–1920
Reviewed by Kristina Downs
Kristina Downs - Review of Chris Goertzen, Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca
Reviewed by Katie Peebles
Katie Peebles - Review of Corinne Saunders, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (Studies in Medieval Romance)
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Shiamin Kwa and Wilt L. Idema, Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts
Reviewed by John Bealle
John Bealle - Review of Thomas Turino, Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
Reviewed by Eric Bindler
Eric Bindler - Review of Mark Brill, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean
Reviewed by Joseph Nagy
Joseph Nagy - Review of Robert A. Segal, Myth (Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4 Vols)
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of Jack Goody, Myth, Ritual and the Oral
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Thomas Reiser, Mythologie und Alchemie in der Lehrepik des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts
Reviewed by Carrie Hertz
Carrie Hertz - Review of Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, and Sheila Watson, editors, Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Thomas A. Green, Native American Folktales
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Bret Gustafson, New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Reviewed by B. Retang Wohangara
B. Retang Wohangara - Review of Rens Heringa, Nini Towok’s Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Craig A. Monson, Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Reviewed by Meryl Krieger
Meryl Krieger - Review of Freya Jarman-Ivens, editor, Oh Boy!: Masculinities and Popular Music
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Antonio Stramaglia, editor, Opuscula de Rebus Mirabilibus et de Longaevis (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Marc Caball and Andrew Carpenter, editors, Oral and Print Cultures in Ireland, 1600–1900
Reviewed by Anne Rasmussen
Anne Rasmussen - Review of Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz, Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqâm Tradition in Practice
Reviewed by Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke
Tricia Ferdinand-Clarke - Review of Philip W. Scher, editor, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Sherry Laymon, Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902-1954
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Kenneth M. George, Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld
Reviewed by Katelyn Monk-McKenzie
Katelyn Monk-McKenzie - Review of Anna Beresin, Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of Kathleen Stokker, Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Reply to the review of Fairy Tales: A New History
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of James R. Lewis and Sarah M. Lewis, editors, Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide
Reviewed by Thomas Solomon
Thomas Solomon - Review of Charles Capwell, Sailing on the Sea of Love: The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Joana Breidenbach and Pál Nyíri, Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Clive Tolley, Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic (2 vols.) (FF Communications 296/297)
Reviewed by Eran Livni
Eran Livni - Review of Catherine Baker, Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of David Johnson, Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China
Reviewed by Mack Hagood
Mack Hagood - Review of Harris M. Berger, Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Silk, Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present
Reviewed by Javier Sanjines
Javier Sanjines - Review of Stuart Alexander Rockefeller, Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People
Reviewed by Timon Kaple
Timon Kaple - Review of Ann Grimes, edited by Sarah Grimes, Jennifer Grimes Kay, Mary Grimes, and Mindy Grimes, Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music
Reviewed by Norma Cantú
Norma Cantú - Review of Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñez, Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Reviewed by Brian Sturm
Brian Sturm - Review of Emily S. Chasse, Telling Tales: A Guidebook and DVD
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet, editors, The African Diaspora and the Disciplines
Reviewed by Fernando Fischman
Fernando Fischman - Review of Oscar Chamosa, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955
Reviewed by Puja Sahney
Puja Sahney - Review of Cynthia Packert, The Art of Loving Krishna: Ornamentation and Devotion
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Reviewed by Julie Henigan
Julie Henigan - Review of Sigrid Rieuwerts, editor, The Ballad Repertoire of Anna Gordon, Mrs Brown of Falkland (The Scottish Text Society Fifth Series, no. 8)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Julio Caro Baroja, translated by Kristin Addis, The Basques
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Eric A. Galm, The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Alan M. Stahl, translator, Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl, editors, The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript (3 vols.)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Wilt L. Idema, translator, Wilt L. Idema, editor, The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak with Related Texts
Reviewed by Richard Martin
Richard Martin - Review of Roger D. Woodard, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Reviewed by Elissa . Henken
Elissa R. Henken - Review of Elizabeth Archibald, and Ad Putter, editors, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Béla Balázs, translated by Jack Zipes, The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales)
Reviewed by Tracey R. Sands
John Shafer - Review of Tracey R. Sands, The Company She Keeps: The Medieval Swedish Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria and Its Transformations
Reviewed by Fernando Orejuela
Fernando Orejuela - Review of Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Reviewed by Raymond A. Hall
Raymond A. Hall - Review of Pedro Cholotío Temó and Alberto Barreno, edited by James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía, The Dog Who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales/El Perro Que Habló y Más Cuentos Mayas
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Sirifo Camara, translated by Sana Camara, The Epic of Kelefaa Saane
Reviewed by Aaron Mulvany
Aaron Mulvany - Review of D.R. Nagaraj, The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Ronald D. Giles, The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
Reviewed by Timon Kaple
Timon Kaple - Review of John S. Partington, editor, The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Reviewed by Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman - Review of David Warren Steel, with Richard H. Hulan, The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Reviewed by Pengcheng Zhu
Pengcheng Zhu - Review of Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language
Reviewed by Stiofán A Cadhla
Stiofán A Cadhla - Review of S. A. Smith, and Alan Knight, editors, The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Frank D. Tikalsky, Catherine A. Euler, and John Nagel, editors, The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Reviewed by Alexandra Kostina
Alexandra Kostina - Review of Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, editors, The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
Reviewed by Doug Boyd
Doug Boyd - Review of Alessandro Portelli, They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History
Reviewed by Kristiana Willsey
Kristiana Willsey - Review of Larry Minear, Through Veterans’ Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience
Reviewed by Virginia S. Fugarino
Virginia S. Fugarino - Review of Benjamin Radford, Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
Reviewed by Oona Paredes
Oona Paredes - Review of Herminia Meñez Coben, Verbal Arts in Philippine Indigenous Communities: Poetics, Society, and History
Reviewed by Regina Bendix
Regina Bendix - Review of Ruth Finnegan, Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
Reviewed by Melissa Harrington
Melissa Harrington - Review of Malcolm Gaskill, Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
Reviewed by Sheila Bock
Sheila Bock - Review of Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, "I Choose Life": Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World