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2009 Reviews

2009 Reviews
Reviewed by Margaret Read MacDonald
Margaret Read MacDonald - Review of Charles P. Beaupre, Aboriginal Folk Tales of Taiwan: Animals, Heroes, and Heroic Adventures
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Jennifer McLerran, editor, Weaving is Life: Navajo Weavings from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Anthony D. Fredericks, African Legends, Myths, and Folktales for Readers Theatre
Reviewed by Angela N. Castaneda
Angela N. Castaneda - Review of Raymond A. Hall, An Ethnographic Study of Afro-Mexicans in Mexico’s Gulf Coast: Fishing, Festivals, and Foodways
Reviewed by Paula Girshick
Paula Girshick - Review of Thomas A. DuBois, An Introduction to Shamanism
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black, editors, Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Francisco Vaz da Silva, Archeology of Intangible Heritage
Reviewed by Gerald C. Milnes
Gerald C. Milnes - Review of Gerald C. Milnes, Author’s reply to review of the book Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
Reviewed by Mary Ellen Brown
Mary Ellen Brown - Review of Maureen N. McLane, Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Reviewed by Hasan l-Shamy
Hasan El-Shamy - Review of Sigrid Schmidt, Children Born from Eggs: African Magic Tales - Texts and Discussions (Afrika erzählt Band 9)
Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Anthony Bak Buccitelli - Review of Tong Soon Lee, Chinese Street Opera in Singapore
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas, editors, Choosing Craft: The Artist’s Viewpoint
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Webb Keane, Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Zoila S. Mendoza, Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Kenneth L. Untiedt, Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter
Reviewed by Benjamin Gatling
Benjamin Gatling - Review of Jay Dautcher, Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Steven M. Oberhelman, Dreambooks in Byzantium: Six Oneirocritica in Translation, with Commentary and Introduction
Reviewed by Megan Solon
Megan Solon - Review of Justin Jennings, and Brenda J. Bowser, editors, Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Dirk Van Hulle and Joep Leerssen, editors, Editing the Nation’s Memory: Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in 19th-Century Europe
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Liz Locke, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, editors, Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife (2 vols.)
Reviewed by Joseph Grim Feinberg
Joseph Grim Feinberg - Review of Marta Troncová, editor, Ethnocultural Traditions in Contemporary Society / Etnokulturní tradice v současné společnosti
Reviewed by Margaret Read MacDonald
Margaret Read MacDonald - Review of Shorena Kurtsikidze and Vakhtang Chikovani, Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border
Reviewed by Kathleen Williams
Kathleen Williams - Review of Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez, edited by Carol Karasik, Every Woman Is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Yuriko Saito, Everyday Aesthetics
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of James Burns, Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Rachel Gholson
Rachel Gholson - Review of Kenneth L. Untiedt, editor, Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, LXIII)
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Dan Ben-Amos, editor and Dov Noy, Consulting Editor, Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1 and 2: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion
Reviewed by Michael A. Lange
Michael A. Lange - Review of Jacqueline S. Thursby, Foodways and Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Alexandre H. de Negreiros
Alexandre H. de Negreiros - Review of Raul A. Fernandez, From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (Music of the African Diaspora)
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Alan Brown, Ghost Hunters of the South
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Emily Mendenhal, Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth
Reviewed by Patrick Feaster
Patrick Feaster - Review of Mark Slobin, editor, Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Katerina Zacharia, editor, Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity
Reviewed by Kristi A. Young
Kristi A. Young - Review of Laura Browder, Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Wilt L. Idema, translator, Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script
Reviewed by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler - Review of İlhan Başgöz, Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of C. S. Watkins, History and the Supernatural in Medieval England
Reviewed by Raymond A. Hall
Raymond A. Hall - Review of Jeffrey E. Anderson, Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks)
Reviewed by Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor - Review of Cindy Clendenon, Hydromythology and the Ancient Greek World: An Earth Science Perspective Emphasizing Karst Hydrology
Reviewed by Phil Stafford
Phil Stafford - Review of Mike Pearson, In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of Jo-ann Archibald, Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Reviewed by Elise Anderson
Elise Anderson - Review of Nathan Light, Intimate Heritage: Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Julia Taylor Ebel, editor, Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns: As Told By Orville Hicks
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Emmanouela Katrinaki, Le Cannibalisme dans le Conte Merveilleux Grec: Questions d’interprétation et de Typologie (Folklore Fellows Communications 295)
Reviewed by Lucy Long
Lucy Long - Review of Cristina Bacchilega, Legendary Hawai’i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Terry Gunnell, editor, Legends and Landscape
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Robert Cochran, Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Kurt Schwitters, translated by Jack Zipes, Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Jonathan D. Hill, Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Timothy J. Cooley, Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Manuel Jordán, Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Patricia Healy Wasyliw, Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe (Studies in Church History)
Reviewed by Raymond J. Demallie
Raymond J. Demallie - Review of Emma I. Hansen, editor, Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian Peoples
Reviewed by Ania Peczalska
Ania Peczalska - Review of Ingrid Furniss, Music in Ancient China: An Archaeological and Art Historical Study of Strings, Winds, and Drums during the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods (770 BCE–220 CE)
Reviewed by James E. Cunningham
James E. Cunningham - Review of Tara Browner, editor, Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
Reviewed by Thomas Solomon
Thomas Solomon - Review of Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya, editor, Music of the Sirens
Reviewed by Sabine Heinz
Sabine Heinz - Review of Helmut Birkhan, Nachantike Keltenrezeption oder Was wir von den Kelten haben
Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby - Review of Annikki Kaivola-Bergenhøj, Barbro Klein, and Ulf Palmenfelt, editor, Narrating, Doing, Experiencing: Nordic Folk Perspectives
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Reviewed by Puja Sahney
Puja Sahney - Review of Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Oral Epics of Kalahandi
Reviewed by Elizabeth Oyler
Elizabeth Oyler - Review of Michael Dylan Foster, Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Reviewed by Fernando Fischman
Fernando Fischman - Review of Charles L. Briggs, Poéticas de Vida en espacios de Muerte: Género, poder y estado en la cotidianidad warao
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of James P. Leary, Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music (American Music Spheres)
Reviewed by Arthur Lawton
Arthur Lawton - Review of David W. Kriebel, Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World
Reviewed by Mark Allan Jackson
Mark Allan Jackson - Review of Holly George-Warren, Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Reviewed by Elena Martínez
Elena Martínez - Review of Raul A. Fernandez, Reply to review of the book From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (Music of the African Diaspora)
Reviewed by Solimar Otero
Solimar Otero - Review of Jualynne E. Dodson, Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba
Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra
Mahendra K. Mishra - Review of Craig J. Reynolds, Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts
Reviewed by Daniel Suslak
Daniel Suslak - Review of Krystyna Deuss, Shamans, Witches and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Allan Charles Dawson, editor, Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society (Missing Voices)e
Reviewed by Yvonne J. Milspaw
Yvonne J. Milspaw - Review of Gerald C. Milnes, Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
Reviewed by Amy Skillman
Amy Skillman - Review of Bess Lomax Hawes, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
Reviewed by Michael Robert Evans
Michael Robert Evans - Review of Ernest S. Burch Jr, Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Jan M. Ziolkowski, Solomon and Marcolf (Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin)
Reviewed by Dina Bennett
Dina Bennett - Review of Kristin A. McGee, Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959
Reviewed by Lisa Marie Gilman
Lisa Marie Gilman - Review of Jonathan Pieslak, Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
Reviewed by Frank de Caro
Frank de Caro - Review of Lee Haring, translated by Claudie Ricaud and Dawood Auleear, Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tonkin
Elizabeth Tonkin - Review of Ray Cashman, Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community
Reviewed by Maria Kaliambou
Maria Kaliambou - Review of William Frank MitchelJosepha Sherman, editor, Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore (3 vols.)
Reviewed by Maria Kennedy
Maria Kennedy - Review of Sadako Ohki, Tea Culture of Japan
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Thomas of Cantimpré, translated by Margot King, edited by Barbara Newman, The Collected Saints’ Lives: Abbot John of Cantimpré, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywières (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts)
Reviewed by James E. Doan
James E. Doan - Review of Neill Martin, The Form and Function of Ritual Dialogue in the Marriage Traditions of Celtic-Language Cultures
Reviewed by John Wolford
John Wolford - Review of Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher, editors, The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Reviewed by Graham A. Blair
Graham A. Blair - Review of Peter L. Macnair, Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary, The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Reviewed by Catherine Shoupe
Catherine Shoupe - Review of Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, editor, The Life and Legacy of Alexander Carmichael
Reviewed by Maria Chnaraki
Maria Chnaraki - Review of Roderick Beaton and David Ricks, editors, The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)
Reviewed by Tyler Bickford
Tyler Bickford - Review of Kathryn Marsh, The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games
Reviewed by Sean Williams
Sean Williams - Review of Michael A. Lange, The Norwegian Scots: An Anthropological Interpretation of Viking-Scottish Identity in the Orkney Islands
Reviewed by Rebekah E. Moore
Rebekah E. Moore - Review of Veli-Pekka Lehtola, translated by Linna Weber Müller-Wille, The Sámi People: Traditions in Transition
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Niels Ingwersen, The Scandinavian Magic Tale and Narrative Folklore: A Study in Genres, Themes, and Sources
Reviewed by Tok Thompson
Tok Thompson - Review of Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten, The Sea Woman: The Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of The Singing Revolution - (DVD)
Reviewed by Joseph C. Jastrzembski
Joseph C. Jastrzembski - Review of Candace S. Greene, and Russell Thornton, editors, The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
Reviewed by Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez - Review of Domino Renee Perez, There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture
Reviewed by Joyce Marie Jackson
Joyce Marie Jackson - Review of Johnathan C. David, Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands
Reviewed by Dana S. Edwards
Dana S. Edwards - Review of Marie Romero Cash, Tortilla Chronicles: Growing Up in Santa Fe
Reviewed by David Lewis
David Lewis - Review of Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher, editors, Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival
Reviewed by Jeremy Stoll
Jeremy Stoll - Review of Frank J. Korom, Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal
Reviewed by Alexandra Kostina
Alexandra Kostina - Review of Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Urban Russian Life-Cycle Rituals
Reviewed by Pamela A. Moro
Pamela A. Moro - Review of Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
Reviewed by Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering - Review of Darién J. Davis, White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Raisa Maria Toivo, Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society
Reviewed by Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld - Review of Evy Johanne Håland, editor, Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond
Reviewed by Maura Kealey
Maura Kealey - Review of Ted Gioia, Work Songs
Reviewed by David Delgado Shorter, Felipe Molina
David Delgado Shorter and Felipe Molina - Review of Kirstin C. Erickson, Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
Reviewed by Jay Mechling
Jay Mechling - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, "Yes We Can": Barack Obama’s Proverbial Rhetoric