Journal of American Folklore Books for review

If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please contact Journal of American Folklore book review editor Carolyn Ware of Louisiana State University.

Allsworth-Jones, P. Pre-Columbian Jamaica.

Anderson, Graham, Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook

Armstrong, Catherine, Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English Representations in Print and Manuscript

Attebery, Jennifer Eastman. Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Experience

Baker, William J., Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport

Bell, Dean Phillip, Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Haitian Vodou

Boivin, Nicole. Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution.

Botham, Fay, Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West

Boye, Alan, Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert

Brackner, Joey, Alabama Folk Pottery

Brown, Meredith Mason. Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America.

Buckland, Theresa Jill, Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities

Burch Jr., Ernest S., Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations

Callery, Edward. Place Names of Illinois

Campbell, C. G., Tales from the Arab Tribes: The Oral Traditions Among the Great Arab Tribes of Southern Iraq

Canepa, Nancy L., Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Carver, M. Heather and Elaine Lawless. Troubling Violence: A Performance Project.

Castile, George Pierre, Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993

Cernea, Ruth Fredman, The Great Latke Hamantash Debate

Chana, Leonard F., Susan Lobo, and Barbara Chana. The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana.

Charters, Samuel. A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora.

Clarke, Kamari Maxine, Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness

Cohen, Ronald D. A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States.

Cohen, Michael H., Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion

Coltman, Bob. Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival.

Cox, Bob L., Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-Time Music Pioneer and His Musical Family

Crate, Susan A., Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability

Crown, Carol, Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

Dorjee, Yeshi, The Three Boys: and Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet

DuBois, Thomas A., Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Europe

Dunaway, David King. How Can I Keep From Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

Erickson, Karla A. The Hungry Cowboy: Service and Community in a Neighborhood Restaurant.

Feldman, Heidi Carolyn, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

Felton, Harold W. Legends of Paul Bunyan

Frank, Adam D., Taijiquan and The Search for the Little Old Chinese Man: Understanding Identity through Martial Arts

Frazer, Chris, Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920

Fulmer, Jacqueline. Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Nị Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin.

Garcia, Nasario, Old Las Vegas: Hispanic Memories from the New Mexico Meadowlands

Gonzalez, Jovita, Life Along The Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis

Greenspoon, Leonard J., American Judaism in Popular Culture

Griswold, Jerry, Feeling Like A Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature

Gruning, Thomas R., Millennium Folk: American Folk Music Since the Sixties

Gutierrez Albornoz, Omar, and Horacio Gutierrez, Literatura folclorica del Maule

Hahn, Tomie, Sensational Knowledge Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance

Hall, Alaric, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England

Haney, Jack V. An Anthology of Russian Folktales.

Hansen, Gregory, A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman

Hardwood, Bill, ed. Mary Noailles Murfree: In the Tennessee Mountains.

Hayward, Philip, Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn

Herrera-Sobek, Maria, Chicano Folklore: A Handbook

Hodes, Martha, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

Howe, Nicholas, Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe

Ice, Joyce, ed. On Collecting: From Private to Public, Featuring Folk and Tribal Art from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection.

Jaffary, Nora E., Gender, Race and Religions in the Colonization of the Americas

Joseph, Frank (ed). Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels

Keegan, William F., and Jerald T. Milanich, Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King

Koegel, John. Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City 1840-1940.

Korom, Frank J., Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal

Kraut, Anthea. Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston

Kuutma, Kristin, Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sami Ethnography and a Seto Epic

Long, Carolyn Morrow, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau

Lopez, Barry, and Debra Gwartney, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

M’Baye, Babacar. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporic Narratives.

Macias, Thomas, Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest

Marchi, Regina M. Day of the Dead in the USA: the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon.

Martin, C. Brenden, Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword

Marzolph, Ulrich, The Arabian Nights Reader

Mazrim, Robert, The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln

Melton, J. Gordon, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena

Mieder, Wolfgang, The Pied Piper: A Handbook

Milner, Clyde A. II and Carol A. O’Connor. As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stewart.

Milnes, Gerald, Signs, Cures & Witchery

Modan, Gabriella Gahlia, Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place

Murray, David, Matter, Magic, Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief

Najera-Ramirez, Olga, Norma Cantu, and Brenda M. Romero. Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos.

Nance, Susan. How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream.

Noy, Chaim, A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers

O Cadhla, Stiofan, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824-1842: Ethnography, Cartography, Translation

Odum, Howard W., and Steven C. Tracy, Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars

O'Foran, Shelly, Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire

Okonkwo, Christopher. A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of O’gbanje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature.

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Malgorzata, The Black Madonna In Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation

Peretti, Burton W. Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music.

Powers, Paul S., and Laurie Powers, Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street

Prasad, Leela, Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town

Queen, Sally, Vicki L. Berger, and Rosalyn M. Lester, Clothing and Textile Collections in the United States

Rappoport, Angelo S., The Folklore of the Jews

Robinson, Jennifer Meta, and J.A. Hartenfeld, The Farmers Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community

Rodriguez, Sylvia, Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place

Roper, Jonathan, ed. Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic.

Rosenberg, Neil V., and Charles K. Wolfe, The Music of Bill Monroe

Rosengarten, Dale. Et al. Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art.

Ruck, Carl A.P., Blaise Daniel Staples, Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran, and Mark Alwin Hoffman, The Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales

Russell, Jeffrey B., and Brooks Alexander, A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans

Sa'di Ahmad H., and Lila Abu-Lughod, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

Salsi, Lynn. The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales.

Seaburg, William R., and Elizabeth D. Jacobs, Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian

Sheumaker, Helen, Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America

Shohat, Ella, Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices

Slone, Verna Mae. How We Talked and Common Folks.

Smelser, Neil J. The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys.

Smith-Morris, Carolyn, Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival

Smoak, Gregory E., Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Ninteenth Century

Snodgrass, Jeffrey G.,Casting Kings: Bards and Indian Modernity

Souther, J. Mark, New Orleans On Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City

Stark, Laura, The Magical Self: Body, Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Rural FinlandSuomalainen Tiedeakatemia

Stewart, Bruce E. King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction.

Streissguth, Michael. Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz, and Terese Allen, Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook

Sweetenham, Carol, Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade: Historia Iherosolimitana

Tang, Patricia, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussions of Senegal

Tatar, Maria, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

Vennum, Thomas, Lacrosse Legends: of the First Americans

Walker, Cameron Jean. Heritage or Odyssey: Archaeology and Culture on the Mayan Riviera.

Ware, Carolyn E., Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward

Warner, Marina, Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

Whittlesey, Lee H., Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides.

Wilder, Edna. Once Upon an Eskimo Time.

Williams, Leonard, and George E. Lankford, Cavorting on the Devil's Fork: The Pete Whetstone Letters of C.F.M. Noland

Wilson, Charles Reagan, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory

Wilson, Charles Reagan, Montgomery, Michael & Johnson, Ellen

Wonderly, Anthony. At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors.

Wood, Roger, and James Fraher, Texas Zydeco