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2007 Reviews

2007 Reviews
Reviewed by Abdulai Salifu
Abdulai Salifu - Review of Leila Monaghan and Jane E. Goodman, editors, A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication
Reviewed by J. Michael Luster
J. Michael Luster - Review of Gregory Hansen, A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman
Reviewed by Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Hande Birkalan-Gedik - Review of Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index
Reviewed by Bilal Kemikli
Bilal Kemikli - Review of Aşçı İbrahim Dede, edited by Mustafa Koç, Eyyüp Tanrıverdi, Aşçı Dede'nin hatıraları: Çok yönlü bir sufinin gözüyle son dönem Osmanlı hayatı , I - IV
Reviewed by Sheasby Matiure
Sheasby Matiure - Review of Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, African Oral Story-telling Tradition and the Zimbabwean Novel in English
Reviewed by Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera
Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera - Review of Lydia Cabrera, translated by Alberto Hernández-Chiroldes and Lauren Yoder, Afro-Cuban Tales: Cuentos Negros De Cuba
Reviewed by Trevor Blank
Trevor Blank - Review of Joey Brackner, Alabama Folk Pottery
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Hamish Henderson, edited by Alec Finlay, Alias MacAlias: Writings on Song, Folk and Literature
Reviewed by Cullen Strawn
Cullen Strawn - Review of Thomas K. Seligman and Kristyne Loughran, editors, Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in the Modern World
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Stefan Arvidsson, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Heidi Carolyn Feldman, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Psyche A. Williams-Forson, Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
Reviewed by Ann McMullen
Ann McMullen - Review of John J. Bodinger de Uriarte, Casino and Museum: Representing Mashantucket Pequot Identity
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of John Roper, editor, Charms and Charming in Europe
Reviewed by Barry Dolins
Barry Dolins - Review of David G. Whiteis, Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories
Reviewed by Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez - Review of María Herrera-Sobek, Chicano Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Carmen Helena Téllez
Carmen Helena Téllez - Review of Karen Ahlquist, editor, Chorus and Community
Reviewed by Jonathan Ready
Jonathan Ready - Review of Kristin Kuutma, Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sámi Ethnography and a Seto Epic (Folklore Fellows’ Communications)
Reviewed by María Herrera-Sobek
María Herrera-Sobek - Review of Martha I. Chew Sánchez, Corridos in Migrant Memory
Reviewed by Suheyla Saritas
Suheyla Saritas - Review of Eli Bartra, editor, Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Reviewed by Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor - Review of Julie Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Timothy D. Walker, Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 23)
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Alaric Hall, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity
Reviewed by Keagan LeJeune
Keagan LeJeune - Review of Bob Trubshaw, editor, Explore Phantom Black Dogs
Reviewed by Marie-Thérèse Oubrier Austin
Marie-Thérèse Oubrier Austin - Review of Constantine Christofides and Christopher Carsten, translators, Koren Christofides, editor, Fables of La Fontaine
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Jack Zipes, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization
Reviewed by Angela Scharfenberger
Angela Scharfenberger - Review of Kwasi Ampene, Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Hasan El-Shamy
Hasan El-Shamy - Review of C. G. Campbell, Folktales from Iraq
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of John van Willigen and Anne van Willigenl, Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950
Reviewed by Tom Mould
Tom Mould - Review of Patricia R. Pessar, From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Sarah Lash
Sarah Lash - Review of Raymond H. Thompson and Keith Busby, editors, Gawain: A Casebook (Arthurian Characters and Themes)
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of James R. Dow, German Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Nancy L. Canepa, translator, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of Graham Anderson, Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by Liora Sarfati
Liora Sarfati - Review of Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands, and Patricia Spyer, editors, Handbook of Material Culture
Reviewed by Heda Jason
Heda Jason - Review of Philip Lutgendorf, Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey
Reviewed by David Delgado Shorter
David Delgado Shorter - Review of Eliseo Torres, edited by Timothy L. Sawyer Jr, Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition
Reviewed by Josep Miquel Sobrer
Josep Miquel Sobrer - Review of Isabel Cardigos, editor, Homenagem a Julio Camarena (Estudos de literatura oral)
Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra
Mahendra K. Mishra - Review of Dawood Auleear and Lee Haring, translators, Dawood Auleear and Lee Haring, editors, Indian Folktales from Mauritius
Reviewed by Lisa Rathje
Lisa Rathje - Review of Francesca Polletta, It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Kristin G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas, Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art
Reviewed by Cristina Bacchilega
Cristina Bacchilega - Review of Giuseppe Gatto, La Fiaba di Tradizione Orale
Reviewed by Phil Fitzsimmons
Phil Fitzsimmons - Review of Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell, Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures
Reviewed by Deborah Felton
Deborah Felton - Review of Vanda Zajko, Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
Reviewed by Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall - Review of Shelly O’Foran, Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire
Reviewed by Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark - Review of Thomas A. DuBois, Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger, translated by Christopher S. Mackay, and edited by Christopher S. Mackay, Malleus Maleficarum
Reviewed by Phil Fitzsimmons
Phil Fitzsimmons - Review of Thomas Cragin, Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900
Reviewed by Jose Gomez-Davidson
Jose Gomez-Davidson - Review of Robin D. Moore, Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
Reviewed by Thomas Turino
Thomas Turino - Review of Henry Stobart, Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Peter Ermey
Peter Ermey - Review of John P. Murphy, Music in Brazil
Reviewed by Katharine Schramm
Katharine Schramm - Review of Robert A. Segal, Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Reviewed by Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
Patricia Casey Sutcliffe - Review of Louise Pound, Nebraska Folklore
Reviewed by Ray Cashman
Ray Cashman - Review of D. K. Wilgus and Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus, On the Banks of Mulroy Bay: Stories and Songs about William Sydney Clements, the Third Earl of Leitrim
Reviewed by Elissa R. Henken
Elissa R. Henken - Review of Diane Goldstein, Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Nancy Guy, Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Scott L. Marcus, Music in Egypt
Reviewed by Jeff Todd Titon
Jeff Todd Titon - Review of Erynn Marshall, Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia’s Fiddle and Song Tradition
Reviewed by C.W. Sullivan III
C.W. Sullivan III - Review of Marjorie Burns, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
Reviewed by Rebekah E. Moore
Rebekah E. Moore - Review of Jan Mrázek, Phenomenology of a Puppet Theater: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit
Reviewed by Fernando Orejuela
Fernando Orejuela - Review of H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture
Reviewed by Donald Braid
Donald Braid - Review of Stanley Robertson, performer, Rum Scum Scoosh! Songs and Stories of an Aberdeen Childhood - (Audio CD)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker - Review of Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
Reviewed by Jill Hemming Austin
Jill Hemming Austin - Review of Anthony Wilson, Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
Reviewed by Mellonee Burnim
Mellonee Burnim - Review of Nick Salvatore, Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
Reviewed by Nesibe Özgul Özbilen, Zeynep Gulcin Özkisi
Nesibe Özgul Özbilen and Zeynep Gulcin Özkisi - Review of Özgül Özbilen Aslıhan Eruzun Özel, and Özlem Yavuz, edited by Music Director Ruhi Ayangil, Muzika-i Hümâyûn şarkıları (Beşi bir yerde
Reviewed by Beverly Stoeltje
Beverly Stoeltje - Review of Pertti Anttonen, Tradition Through Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 15)
Reviewed by Richard March
Richard March - Review of Milan Opacich, Tamburitza America
Reviewed by Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen
Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen - Review of Samuel S. Hill, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1: Religion
Reviewed by Daniel Reed
Daniel Reed - Review of Bruno Nettl, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
Reviewed by Katherine Roberts
Katherine Roberts - Review of Charles R. Mack, Talking with the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters
Reviewed by Barbara Seitz-De Martinez
Barbara Seitz-De Martinez - Review of Katherine Borland, Unmasking Class, Gender. and Sexuality in Nicaragua
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Ruth Tsoffar, The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Reviewed by Stiofán A Cadhla
Stiofán A Cadhla - Review of Margaret Read MacDonald, Ten Traditional Tellers
Reviewed by Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran - Review of Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone
Reviewed by Ethan Sharp
Ethan Sharp - Review of Roberto R. Treviño, The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston
Reviewed by Danille Christensen
Danille Christensen - Review of Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler, editors, The Scrapbook in American Life
Reviewed by Fugan Dineen
Fugan Dineen - Review of Richard K. Wolf, The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India
Reviewed by Aditi Deo
Aditi Deo - Review of Frank J. Korom, South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks)
Reviewed by Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall - Review of Charles D. Thompson Jr, The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge
Reviewed by Aija Veldre Beldavs
Aija Veldre Beldavs - Review of Patrick J. Geary, Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Tiiu Jaago and Kristin Kuutma, editors, Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology: A Reader and Reflexive History
Reviewed by William M. Clements
William M. Clements - Review of Jennifer Karson, editor, Wiyaxayxt/ Wiyaakaa'awn/ As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, Our People - The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
Reviewed by Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen - Review of Lee Kyung Ja, Hong Na Young, and Chang Sook Hwan, Traditional Korean Costume
Reviewed by Jon Kay
Jon Kay - Review of Mark Hewitt and Nancy Sweezy, The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Folk Pottery
Reviewed by Kara Rogers Thomas
Kara Rogers Thomas - Review of Michael Ann Williams, Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Lauren Travis Kahle
Lauren Travis Kahl - Review of Thomas Goldsmith, editor, The Bluegrass Reader
Reviewed by Stephanie Singleton
Stephanie Singleton - Review of Anand Prahlad, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Jacqueline S. Thursby, Story: A Handbook
Reviewed by Nancy B. Black
Nancy B. Black - Review of Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay, editors and translators, The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of Les Évangiles Des Quenouilles
Reviewed by Suzanne P. MacAulay
Suzanne P. MacAulay - Review of Patty O’Brien, The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
Reviewed by Matthew Van Hoose
Matthew Van Hoose - Review of José López Morín, The Legacy of Américo Paredes
Reviewed by Kristiana Willsey
Kristiana Willsey - Review of Kristin M. McAndrews, Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Ulrich Marzolph, editor, The Arabian Nights Reader
Reviewed by K. A. Laity
K. A. Laity - Review of Laura Stark, The Magical Self: Body Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Rural Finland (FCC 290)
Reviewed by Dianna Bell
Dianna Bell - Review of Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson, editors, The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity
Reviewed by Carl Lindahl
Carl Lindahl - Review of Thomas A. Green, editor, The Greenwood Library of American Folktales (4 vols.)
Reviewed by Shane Rasmussen
Shane Rasmussen - Review of Yeshi Dorjee, edited by John S. Major, The Three Boys and Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, The Pied Piper: A Handbook
Reviewed by Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez - Review of Stanley H. Brandes, Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond
Reviewed by Holly Everett
Holly Everett - Review of Jack Santino, editor, Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorializations of Death
Reviewed by Fredara Mareva Hadley
Fredara Mareva Hadle - Review of Roni Sarig, Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip Hop Became a Southern Thing
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Pae-gang Hwang, translated by Young-Hie Han, Se-Chung Kim and Seung-Pyong Chwae, Korean Myths and Folk Legends