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2006 Reviews

2006 Reviews
Reviewed by Robert Cancel
Robert Cance - Review of Harold Scheub, African Tales
Reviewed by William Bernard McCarthy
William Bernard McCarthy - Review of Carl Lindahl, editor, American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy, editors, Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Laura Gonzenbach, translated by Jack Zipes, Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Jane Goodman, Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video
Reviewed by Thomas W. Jacobsen
Thomas W. Jacobsen - Review of Roger D. Abrahams, with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
Reviewed by Elinor Levy
Elinor Levy - Review of Marcia Gaudet, Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America
Reviewed by Annette Fromm
Annette Fromm - Review of Earnest Gouge, edited by Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt, Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales
Reviewed by Sunni Fass
Sunni Fass - Review of Louise J. Ravelli, Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks (Museum Meanings)
Reviewed by Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo - Review of William Hansen, Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans
Reviewed by Mark Miyake
Mark Miyake - Review of Bob Black, Come Hither, Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Guntis Šmidchens
Guntis Šmidchens - Review of Anna-Leena Siikala, Barbro Klein and Stein R. Mathisen, editors, Creating Diversities: Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage (Studia Fennica Folkloristica (SFF))
Reviewed by Orvar Löfgren
Orvar Löfgren - Review of Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel
Reviewed by Moira Marsh
Moira Marsh - Review of Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Tamar Katriel, Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture
Reviewed by Mark Miyake
Mark Miyake - Review of Bill Malone, Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Roger Abrahams, Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices
Reviewed by Darla Wells
Darla Wells - Review of Tony K. Stewart, translator, Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal
Reviewed by Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Hande Birkalan-Gedik - Review of Donald Haase, editor, Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches
Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra
Mahendra K. Mishra - Review of Diane P. Mines, Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and The Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village
Reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson
Jason Baird Jackson - Review of Dorothy Noyes, Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco
Reviewed by Roger Renwick
Roger Renwick - Review of Ian Russell and David Atkinson, editors, Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation (The Elphinstone Institute Occasional Publications 3)
Reviewed by James Leary
James Leary - Review of David Stanley, editor, Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources
Reviewed by Daniel Peretti
Daniel Peretti - Review of Alan Dundes, Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Marte Hvam Hult, Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Reviewed by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt - Review of Sharon Whitehill, Francis Gillmor: Aztec and Najavo Folklorist
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Charles Camp - Review of Jacqueline S. Thursby, Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living
Reviewed by Lanlan Kuang
Lanlan Kuang - Review of Lihui Yang and Deming An (with Jessica Anderson Turner), Handbook of Chinese Mythology (World Mythology)
Reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
Timothy R. Tangherlini - Review of Jack Zipes, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller
Reviewed by Brenda Romero
Brenda Romero - Review of Enrique Lamadrid, Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Gregory Hansen - Review of Jack Zipes, Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
Reviewed by Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel - Review of Dale Martin, Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians
Reviewed by Fernando Fischman
Fernando Fischman - Review of Haya Bar-Itzhak, Israeli Folk Narratives: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity
Reviewed by Paul Schauert
Paul Schauert - Review of Paul Austerlitz, Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
Reviewed by Bruce Conforth
Bruce Conforth - Review of Barry Lee Pearson, Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
Reviewed by Rosaleen O. B. Nhlekisana
Rosaleen O. B. Nhlekisana - Review of Steven Jay Epstein, editor, Lao Folktales
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Marie-Louise Tenèze, Les contes merveilleux français: Recherche de leurs organisations narratives
Reviewed by Pauline Greenhill
Pauline Greenhill - Review of Simon Bronner, editor, Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinity
Reviewed by Teri Klassen
Teri Klassen - Review of Laurel Horton, Mary Black’s Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
Reviewed by Hans Kuhn
Hans Kuhn - Review of Leif Søndergaard and Rasmus Thorning Hansen, editors, Monsters, Marvels, and Miracles: Imaginary Journeys and Landscapes in the Middle Ages
Reviewed by Art Leete
Art Leete - Review of Pekka Hakamies, Moving in the USSR: Western Anomalies and Northern Wilderness
Reviewed by Deborah Justice
Deborah Justice - Review of Philip V. Bohlman, Edith Blumhofer, and Maria Chow, editors, Music in American Religious Experience
Reviewed by John McNamara
John McNamara - Review of Mark C. Amodio, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
Reviewed by Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor - Review of Véronique Campion-Vincent, translated by Jacqueline Simpson, Organ Theft Legends
Reviewed by Patricia Sawin
Patricia Sawin - Review of Amy Shuman, Other People’s Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy
Reviewed by Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez - Review of Margaret Dorsey, Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational Marketing
Reviewed by Dorothy Noyes
Dorothy Noyes - Review of Ruth Finnegan, editor, Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls
Reviewed by Eran Livni
Eran Livni - Review of Donna A. Buchanan, Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition
Reviewed by Inna Golovakha-Hicks
Inna Golovakha-Hicks - Review of Helena Goscilo Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky, Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Kimberly Lau, et al, What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Randy P. Conner, Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
Reviewed by Phillip McArthur
Phillip McArthur - Review of Anna-Leena Siikala and Jukka Siikala, Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands (FF Communications 287)
Reviewed by Rebekah E. Moore
Rebekah E. Moore - Review of Thomas L. Cooper, Sacred Painting in Bali: Tradition in Transition
Reviewed by Gregory Schrempp
Gregory Schrempp - Review of Sandra K. Dolby, Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them
Reviewed by Liora Sarfati
Liora Sarfati - Review of Kira Van Dausen, Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia
Reviewed by Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson - Review of Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia
Reviewed by Regina Bendix
Regina Bendix - Review of Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton, translated by Chaya Naor, Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine: The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948 (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra
Madeleine Biardeau. Alf Hiltebeitel, Marie-Louise Reiniche, and James Walker, translators, Alf Hiltebeitel and Marie-Louise Reiniche, editors, Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess
Reviewed by Bruce Conforth
Bruce Conforth - Review of Michael Taft, Talkin’ to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942
Reviewed by Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Olga Nájera-Ramírez - Review of Ramón Saldívar, The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Linda Kinsey Spetter - Review of Dale Olsen, The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf
Juan Eduardo Wolf - Review of Lise A. Waxer, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Groves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia
Reviewed by Janice Ackerley
Janice Ackerley - Review of Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double Dutch to Hip-Hop
Reviewed by Moira Marsh
Moira Marsh - Review of William Clements, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of Ernesto De Martino, translated by Dorothy Louise Zinn, The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism
Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht
Winifred Lambrecht - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, editor, The Netherlandish Proverbs: An International Symposium on the Pieter Brueg(h)els
Reviewed by Cristina Bacchilega
Cristina Bacchilega - Review of Giovanna P. del Negro, The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity
Reviewed by Chris Geyer
Chris Geyer - Review of Pauleena MacDougall, The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People
Reviewed by Anthony Guest-Scott
Anthony Guest-Scott - Review of Susan Slyomovics, The Perfomance of Human Rights in Morocco
Reviewed by Mary Ellen Brown
Mary Ellen Brown - Review of William St. Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby
Sandra K. Dolby - Review of Živile Gimbutas, The Riddle in the Poem
Reviewed by Danille Christensen
Danille Christensen - Review of Corinne Earnest and Russell Earnest, To the Latest Posterity: Pennsylvania-German Family Registers in the Fraktur Tradition (Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society 37)
Reviewed by Carmen Helena Téllez
Carmen Helena Téllez - Review of Michael Largey, Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Dick Weissman, Which Side Are You On?: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Burbach
Elizabeth A. Burbach - Review of Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
Reviewed by Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen
Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen - Review of Darcy Wakefield, “No Flies on Bill”: The Story of an Uncontrollable Old Woman, My Grandmother, Ethel “Billie” Gammon (Northeast Folklore 30)
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Lee Haring - Review of Desmond L. Kharmawphlang, editor, Narratives of North-East India, vol. 1