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2008 Reviews

2008 Reviews
Reviewed by Patrick Feaster
Patrick Feaster - Review of John Minton, 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South (American Made Music)
Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby - Review of Chaim Noy, A Narrative Community: Voice of Israeli Backpackers
Reviewed by Cheryl Keyes
Cheryl Keyes - Review of Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim, editors, African American Music: An Introduction
Reviewed by Michael Robert Evans
Michael Robert Evans - Review of Susan W. Fair, edited by Jean Blodgett, Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities
Reviewed by Karlie M. King
Karlie M. King - Review of H. David Brumble III, American Indian Autobiography
Reviewed by Michael McCafferty
Michael McCafferty - Review of Michael McCafferty, Author’s reply to a review of his book Native American Place-Names of Indiana
Reviewed by David Atkinson
David Atkinson - Review of Steve Newman, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism
Reviewed by C. K. Szego
C. K. Szego - Review of Philip Hayward, Bounty Chords: Music, Dance, and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands
Reviewed by Robert A. Segal
Robert A. Segal - Review of Kate Bernheimer, editor, Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Carolyn E. Ware, Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backwards
Reviewed by Ulf Palmenfelt
Ulf Palmenfelt - Review of Nils-Arvid Bringéus, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow som folklorist
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Rebecca S. Miller, Carriacou String Band Serenade
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young, Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Aboubakr Chraïbi, editor, Classer les Récits: Théories et Pratiques
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of Ken Light and Melanie Light, Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Tyagan Miller and Yusef Komenyakaa, Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Maria Hnaraki, Cretan Music: Unraveling Ariadne’s Thread
Reviewed by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts - Review of Janken Myrdal, Pia Melin and Olle Ferm, Den Predikande Räven: Arbete, Skämt och Allvar i en Medeltida Illuminerad Handskrift
Reviewed by Kristi A. Young
Kristi A. Young - Review of Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Karl Reichel, editor, Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic (Folklore Fellows’ Communications)
Reviewed by Coppelie Cocq
Coppelie Cocq - Review of Dan Keding, Elder Tales: Stories of Wisdom and Courage from Around the World
Reviewed by Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan - Review of Sudha Chandola, Entranced by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of David Frankfurter, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Doris Francis, editor, Faith and Transformation: Votive Offerings and Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection
Reviewed by Abdulai Salifu
Abdulai Salifu - Review of Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje, Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures
Reviewed by Shahyar Daneshgar
Shahyar Daneshgar - Review of Erika Friedl, editor, Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English
Reviewed by Jennifer Orme
Jennifer Orme - Review of Jason Marc Harris, Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Reviewed by Abdulai Salifu
Abdulai Salifu - Review of Chiji Akoma, Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven, editors, Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture
Reviewed by Ulf Palmenfelt
Ulf Palmenfelt - Review of Bengt af Klintberg, Folkminnen
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Paul Tyler and Clark Halker, editors, Folksongs of Illinois (2 vols.), CD with accompanying booklet
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of Sydney Hutchinson, From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture
Reviewed by Jacqueline Warwick
Yvette Staelens - Review of Jacqueline Warwick, Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s
Reviewed by Moira Marsh
Moira Marsh - Review of Giselinde Kuipers, translated by Kate Simms, Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Hans-Jörg Uther, Handbuch zu den ’Kinder- und Hausmärchen’ der Brüder Grimm
Reviewed by Gail de Vos
Gail de Vos - Review of Dianne de Las Casas, Handmade Tales: Stories to Make and Take
Reviewed by Matthew Cheeseman
Matthew Cheeseman - Review of Elizabeth Tucker, Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses
Reviewed by Liora Sarfati
Liora Sarfati - Review of Simon Mills, Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast Hereditary Shamans (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Elaine Richardson, Hiphop Literacies (Literacies)
Reviewed by Meryl Krieger
Meryl Krieger - Review of Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro, Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Jon Lohman and Morgan Miller, In Good Keeping: Viginia’s Folklife Apprenticeships
Reviewed by Teri Brewer
Teri Brewer - Review of Harry Robinson, edited by Wendy Wickwire, Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory
Reviewed by Jodine Perkins
Jodine Perkins - Review of Richard Willis, Long Gone
Reviewed by Brice Obermeyer
Brice Obermeyer - Review of James W. Brown and Rita T. Kohn, editors, Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of Barbara Rieti, Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells
Reviewed by Suzanne P. MacAulay
Suzanne P. MacAulay - Review of Roy W. Hamilton, and B. Lynne Milgram, editors, Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific
Reviewed by K. A. Laity
K. A. Laity - Review of Marina Warner, Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Daniel J. Sherman, Museums and Difference
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Robert J. Tórrez, Myth of the Hanging Tree
Reviewed by Della Collins Cook
Della Collins Cook - Review of Michael McCafferty, Native American Place-Names of Indiana
Reviewed by Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering - Review of Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, editors, Oral History and Public Memories (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
Reviewed by Alex Perullo
Alex Perullo - Review of Laura Edmondson, Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Michael Mangan, Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring
Reviewed by Paul D. Kroeber
Paul D. Kroeber - Review of Elizabeth D. Jacobs, edited by William R. Seaburg, Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian
Reviewed by Jenna Makowski
Jenna Makowski - Review of Maja Trochimczyk, Polish Dance in Southern California
Reviewed by Christina Sunardi
Christina Sunardi - Review of Andrew N. Weintraub, Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia, No. 110)
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Mark Allan Jackson, Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
Reviewed by Alla Myzelev
Alla Myzelev - Review of Spike Gillespie, Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of David Evans, editor, Ramblin’ on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
Reviewed by Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor - Review of George E. Lankford, Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Judy Thompson, Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Reviewed by Peter Wade
Peter Wade - Review of Stephen Selka, Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil
Reviewed by Fernando Fischman
Fernando Fischman - Review of Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory
Reviewed by Aija Veldre Beldavs
Aija Veldre Beldavs - Review of Coppélie Cocq, Revoicing Sámi Narratives: North Sámi Storytelling at the Turn of the 20th Century
Reviewed by Xiaoshi Andrew Wei
Xiaoshi Andrew Wei - Review of Stephen Jones, Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of John A. Burrison, Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Leonid Heretz, Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars (New Studies in European History)
Reviewed by Lanlan Kuang
Lanlan Kuang - Review of Tomie Hahn, Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance
Reviewed by Margaret Read MacDonald
Margaret Read MacDonald - Review of Kay Stone, Some Day Your Witch Will Come
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Ulrich Marzolph, editor, The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective
Reviewed by Phil Fitzsimmons
Phil Fitzsimmons - Review of Wanni W. Anderson, The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen - Review of Mark Edward Lewis, The Flood Myths of Early China
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Angelo S. Rappoport, The Folklore of the Jews
Reviewed by Henry Spiller
Henry Spiller - Review of Terry Miller and Sean Williams, editors, The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music
Reviewed by William Bernard McCarthy
William Bernard McCarthy - Review of David Buchan and James Moreira, editors, The Glenbuchat Ballads
Reviewed by Charles G. Zug III
Charles G. Zug III - Review of Pravina Shukla, The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Perett - Review of Donald Haase, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales (3 vols)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Thomas A. Green, editor, The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections (four volumes)
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review of Theodore M. Andersson, The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
Reviewed by Kristi A. Young
Kristi A. Young - Review of Eric A. Eliason, The J. Golden Kimball Stories
Reviewed by Jing Li
Jing Li - Review of Haiwang Yuan, The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese
Reviewed by Curtis Ashton
Curtis Ashton - Review of William A. Wilson, edited by Jill Terry Rudy, The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Simon Bronner, The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
Reviewed by Luke Powers
Luke Powers - Review of Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe, editors, The Music of Bill Monroe
Reviewed by Izaly Zemtsovsky
Izaly Zemtsovsky - Review of Laurent Aubert, with a foreword by Anthony Seeger, translated by Carla Ribeiro, The Music of The Other: New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age
Reviewed by Burt Feintuch
Burt Feintuch - Review of Michael F. Scully, The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance
Reviewed by Jessica Anderson Turner
Jessica Anderson Turner - Review of Charles Reagan Wilson, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 2: Geography
Reviewed by Carrie Hertz
Carrie Hertz - Review of Roland Barthes, translated by Andy Stafford, edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter, The Language of Fashion
Reviewed by Jessica Anderson Turner
Jessica Anderson Turner - Review of Charles Reagan Wilson, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory
Reviewed by Timothy Lloyd
Timothy Lloyd - Review of John T. Edge, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 7: Foodways
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of M. Thomas Inge, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 9: Literature
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Somadeva, translated by James Mallinson, The Ocean of the Rivers of Story (Clay Sanskrit Library)
Reviewed by Abdulai Salifu
Abdulai Salifu - Review of Ruth Finnegan, The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa
Reviewed by Roberta Hunte
Roberta Hunte - Review of Patricia Anne Masters, The Philadelphia Mummers: Building Community Through Play
Reviewed by Adam Zolkover
Adam Zolkover - Review of Makuchi, The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba
Reviewed by Amy Shuman
Amy Shuman - Review of Bruce Jackson, The Story is True
Reviewed by Kristin G. Congdon
Kristin G. Congdon - Review of Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
Reviewed by Tom Walker
Tom Walker - Review of Archie Green, Lore’s Labor’s Lost: Archie Green’s Restoration of Worlds of Labor
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Damon DiMarco, Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11
Reviewed by Duncan Vinson
Duncan Vinson - Review of Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism
Reviewed by Jane Goodman
Jane Goodman - Review of Deborah Kapchan, Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and the Global Marketplace
Reviewed by Simon Bronner
Simon Bronner - Review of Ian Woodward, Understanding Material Culture
Reviewed by B. Grantham Aldred
B. Grantham Aldred - Review of Richard M. Dorson, edited by James P. Leary, Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Richard Beitl, edited by Bernd Rieken and Michael Simon, Untersuchungen zur Mythologie des Kindes
Reviewed by Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience
Reviewed by Bill Ellis
Bill Ellis - Review of Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith, editors, Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors
Reviewed by Mikel J. Koven
Mikel J. Koven - Review of Peter Day, Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Annette B. Fromm, We Are Few: Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece
Reviewed by John A. Burrison
John A. Burrison - Review of Richard Bebb, Welsh Furniture 1250–1950: A Cultural History of Craftsmanship & Design (2 vols.)
Reviewed by Nina Fales
Nina Fales - Review of Theodore Levin, with Valentina Süzükei, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond
Reviewed by David Delgado Shorter
David Delgado Shorter - Review of Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans
Reviewed by James Ruchala
James Ruchala - Review of Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone, Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Reviewed by Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe
Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe - Review of Jill Nokes, with Pat Jasper, Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home
Reviewed by Meghan Reef
Meghan Reef - Review of Chartwell Dutiro and Keith Howard, Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro’s Life in Music (SOAS Musicology Series)