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2010 Reviews

2010 Reviews
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Helen Farley, A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism
Reviewed by Thomas W. Jacobsen
Thomas W. Jacobsen - Review of Samuel Charters, A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Marc Boglioli, A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of Jennifer McLerran, editor, A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933–1943
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Ted Olson and Anthony P. Cavender, editors, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler: Selected Readings from the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 1935–2009
Reviewed by Lisa Gabbert
Lisa Gabber - Review of Yolanda Lastra, Dina Sherzer, and Joel Sherzer, Adoring the Saints: Fiestas in Central Mexico
Reviewed by Arthur Lawton
Arthur Lawton - Review of Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, translated by John Bendix, Amish: The Way of Life of the Amish in Berne, Indiana
Reviewed by Jennifer Attebery
Jennifer Attebery - Review of Joshua Blu Buhs, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History
Reviewed by Puja Sahney
Puja Sahney - Review of Daniel Miller, editor, Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective (Materializing Culture)
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlmanv
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of Anthony Wonderley, At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of William Ian Miller, Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (Medieval Law and Its Practice)
Reviewed by Keith McKenry
Ed Cray - Review of Keith McKenry, Australia’s Lost Folk Songs: The Treasures that Slipped through Percy Jones’ Fingers
Reviewed by C.W. Sullivan III
C.W. Sullivan III - Review of Helen Phillips, Bandit Territories: British Outlaws and their Traditions
Reviewed by Michael Taft
Michael Taft - Review of Stephen Calt, Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Thomas Burton, Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks
Reviewed by Claire Schmidt
Claire Schmidt - Review of Casie E. Hermansson, Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition
Reviewed by Jeff Wanser
Jeff Wanser - Review of Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr, editor, BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Burbach
Elizabeth A. Burbach - Review of Donald Hill, editor, Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Silke Meyer
Silke Meyer - Review of Eric Ames, Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Bernard Mees, Celtic Curses
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Elizabeth Tucker, editor, Children’s Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Phyllis May-Machunda
Phyllis May-Machunda - Review of Anthea Kraut, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Joan Cameron Bristol, Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Kathy M. McKimmie, Clay Times Three: The Tale of Three Nashville, Indiana, Potteries
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Susan K. McCarthy, Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
Reviewed by Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Haland - Review of Juliet du Boulay, Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Peter Manuel, editor, Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
Reviewed by John Vlach
John Vlach - Review of Miriam T. Stark, Brenda J. Bowser, and Lee Horne, editors, Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of André Schnyder, editor, Das Mittelniederdeutsche Theophilus-Spiel: Text, Übersetzung, Stellenkommentar
Reviewed by Ian Hayes
Ian Hayes - Review of Richard MacKinnon, Discovering Cape Breton Folklore
Reviewed by Nancy Cassell McEntire
Nancy Cassell McEntire - Review of Ian Russell, and Mary Anne Alburger, editors, Driving the Bow: Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 2
Reviewed by Gideon Thomas
Gideon Thomas - Review of Nicholas Evans, Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
Reviewed by Fileve Tlaloc Palmer
Fileve Tlaloc Palmer - Review of Mwenda Ntarangwi, East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization
Reviewed by Michael Lundell
Michael Lundell - Review of Paul McMichael Nurse, Eastern Dreams: How the Arabian Nights Came to the World
Reviewed by Erin Roth
Erin Roth - Review of Philip B. Stafford, Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Sheila Paine, Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, editor, Erzählkultur: Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Erzählforschung, Hans-Jörg Uther zum 65. Geburtstag
Reviewed by Mary Magoulick
Mary Magoulick - Review of Anthony K. Webster, Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of Peter Webb, Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieu Cultures (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Jan M. Ziolkowski, Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Susan Redington Bobby, editor, Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Suzanne Magnanini, Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile
Reviewed by K. A. Laity
K. A. Laity - Review of E. A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World (2 vols.)
Reviewed by Jing Li
Jing Li - Review of Wilt L. Idema, editor, Filial Piety and Its Divine Rewards: The Legend of Dong Yong and Weaving Maiden, With Related Texts
Reviewed by Julie Hollowell
Julie Hollowell- Review of Catherine Bell, and Val Napoleon, editors, First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek, editors, Folk and Fairy Tales, Fourth Edition
Reviewed by Wanda G. Addison
Wanda G. Addison - Review of Jacqueline Fulmer, Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Henry Notaker, Food Culture in Scandinavia
Reviewed by Nicholas Gresens
Nicholas Gresens - Review of Claude Calame, Greek Mythology: Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction
Reviewed by Lucia Sa
Lucia Sa - Review of Hans Staden, edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of H. Sidky, Haunted by the Archaic Shaman: Himalayan Jhãkris and the Discourse on Shamanism
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas, Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Reviewed by David F. Garcia
David F. Garcia - Review of John Donald Robb, Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico: With Selected Songs Collected, Transcribed, and Arranged for Voice with Piano or Guitar Accompaniment
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Robert Bonfil, History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle: The Family Chronicle of A?ima?az ben Paltiel
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Robert Mandel, translated by Arle Lommel, Hungarian Folk Instruments
Reviewed by Regina Bendix
Regina Bendix - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, Hänsel und Gretel: Das Märchen Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Medien und Karikaturen
Reviewed by James Leary
James Leary - Review of Robert Cantwell, If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Mary Noailles Murfree, edited by Bill Hardwig, In the Tennessee Mountains
Reviewed by Jeremy Stoll
Jeremy Stoll - Review of Karline McLain, India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
Reviewed by Patricia A. Hardwick
Patricia A. Hardwick - Review of Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman, Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of E. Moore Quinn, Irish American Folklore in New England
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Claudia Gould, Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field
Reviewed by Jens Lund
Jens Lund - Review of Simon J. Bronner, Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies
Reviewed by Janet L. Langlois
Janet L. Langlois - Review of William Schneider, editor, Living with Stories: Telling, Retelling, and Remembering
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Marcus LiBrizzi, Lost Atusville: A Black Settlement from the American Revolution (Northeast Folklore XLII)
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Nancy Groce, Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway: Iconic Trades of New York City
Reviewed by Timothy Evans
Timothy Evans - Review of Chuck Stormes and Don Reeves, Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition
Reviewed by Jacob Hardesty
Jacob Hardesty - Review of Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Jacqueline van Gent, Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Reviewed by John Lindow
John Lindow - Review of Terry Gunnell, editor, Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area
Reviewed by Mack Hagood
Mack Hagood - Review of Karin Bijsterveld, Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Karen M. Duffy
Karen M. Duffy - Review of Gwyneira Isaac, Mediating Knowledges: Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolbert - Review of Stephen Knight, Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages
Reviewed by Gustavo Ponce
Gustavo Ponce - Review of William H. Beezley, Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Burt Feintuch
Burt Feintuch - Review of Andrew N. Weintraub and Bell Yung, Music and Cultural Rights
Reviewed by Eric Bindler
Eric Bindler - Review of Robin Moore, Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Reviewed by Henry Spiller
Henry Spiller - Review of Gabriel Solis, and Bruno Nettl, editor, Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
Reviewed by Heather M. Shirey
Heather M. Shirey - Review of Beatriz Góis Dantas, translated by Stephen Berg, Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Reviewed by Olga Najera-Ramirez
Olga Najera-Ramirez - Review of María Eugenia Cotera, Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Joyce Ice, editor, On Collecting: From Private to Public, Featuring Folk and Tribal Art from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
Reviewed by Juan Francisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly, editor, Oral and Written Transmission in Chant
Reviewed by Angela Glaros
Angela Glaros - Review of Eleni Kallimopoulou, Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Katell Morand
Katell Morand - Review of Brunhilde Biebuyck, editors, Pratiques d’enquêtes (Cahiers de Littérature Orale, Vol. 63-64)
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Henry Glassie, Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
Reviewed by Deeksha Nagar
Deeksha Nagar - Review of Paula Richman, editor, Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology
Reviewed by Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall - Review of Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Sandra L. Beckett, Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Robert Mandel, translated by Arle Lommel, Reply to review of the book Hungarian Folk Instruments
Reviewed by Anthony K. Webster
Anthony K. Webster - Review of Gunter Senft and Ellen B. Basso, editors, Ritual Communication (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)
Reviewed by Vânia Castro
Vânia Castro - Review of Alexander Sebastian Dent, River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Reviewed by Alex Perullo
Alex Perullo - Review of Kimani Njogu and Hervé Maupeu, editors, Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
Reviewed by Beverly Stoeltje
Beverly Stoeltje - Review of Elaine A. Jahner, Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West
Reviewed by Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark - Review of Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch and Carola Ekrem, editors, Swedish Folklore Studies in Finland 1828–1918
Reviewed by John A. Burrison
John A. Burrison - Review of Richard Bebb and Sioned Williams, The Bardic Chair / Y Gadair Farddol
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of César Miguel Rondón, translated by Frances R. Aparicio and Jackie White, The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Reviewed by David A. McDonald
David A. McDonald - Review of John O’Flynn, The Irishness of Irish Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Reviewed by Hasan El-Shamy
Hasan El-Shamy - Review of Muhsin J. al-Musawi, The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights
Reviewed by Melissa Strickland
Melissa Strickland - Review of N. Scott Momaday, The Journey of Tai-me
Reviewed by Jonathan Dueck
Jonathan Dueck - Review of Judah M. Cohen, The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment
Reviewed by Adam Zolkover
Adam Zolkover - Review of Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Anne Dhu McLucas, The Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA
Reviewed by Anthony Seeger
Anthony Seeger - Review of Fernando Santos-Granero, editor, The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood
Reviewed by Yvonne J. Milspaw
Yvonne J. Milspaw - Review of Katrien Hendrickx, The Origins of Banana-Fibre Cloth in the Ryukus, Japan
Reviewed by James Griffith
James Griffith - Review of Samuel Brunk, The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico’s Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Elizabeth de la Portilla, They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing
Reviewed by Laurel Horton
Laurel Horton - Review of Kyra E. Hicks, This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces
Reviewed by Annette Fromm
Annette Fromm - Review of Randy Ramer, Thomas Gilcrease
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Tim Benton, editor, Understanding Heritage and Memory
Reviewed by Jeffrey Tolbert
Jeffrey Tolber - Review of Mai Lan Gustafsson, War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam
Reviewed by Raymond J. Demallie
Raymond J. Demallie - Review of David Delgado Shorter, We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of William N. Fenton, edited by William A. Starna and Jack Campisi, William Fenton: Selected Writings
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of John Newton and Jo Bath, editors, Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
Reviewed by Gail de Vos
Gail de Vos - Review of Kathleen Hudson, Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs
Reviewed by Margaret Read MacDonald
Margaret Read MacDonald - Review of Josepha Sherman, World Folklore for Storytellers: Tales of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, and Heroes
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Johannes Dillinger, translated by Laura Stokes, "Evil People": A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier (Studies in Early Modern German History)
Reviewed by Hilary Kahn
Hilary Kahn - Review of Cameron Jean Walker, Heritage or Heresy: Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Thea Summerfield, translator, André Bouwman and Bart Besamusca, editors, Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van den vos Reynaerde