NEW BOOK NOTES

Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader, Edited by C. R. Pennell Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, Edited by Benita J. Howell Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon, By Candace Slater A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History, By Peter Nabokov Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA, Edited by Tony Mitchell Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives, Edited by Geoffrey Cubitt and Allen Warren Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, by Norm Cohen Motif, Type and Genre: A Manual for Compilation of Indices & A Bibliography of Indices and Indexing, By Heda Jason Pathways: Approaches to the Study and Teaching of Folklore, Edited by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts and Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren, By Margaret C. Reynolds Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba, By J. D. Y. Peel Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity, By Hans Turley Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, by John G. Gibson Uighur Stories from Along the Silk Road, By Cuiyi Wei and Karl W. Luckert Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland, by Callum G. Brown

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BELIEF AND WORLDVIEW

The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia, by W. F. Ryan Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage, ed. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems, Edited by Erica Brady Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler's Life of "Unselfish Usefulness", by Margaret K. Brady Music and the Celtic Otherworld: From Ireland to Iona, by Karen Ralls-MacLeod The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, by Craig M. Koslofsky Science and Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies, by Henry H. Bauer Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic and Commerce, by Carolyn Morrow Long Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951, by Owen Davies Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself, ed. Polly Stewart, Steve Siporin, C.W. Sullivan III, and Suzi Jones

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ETHNOGRAPHY AND AREAL ANTHOLOGIES

African Americans in Michigan, by Lewis Walker, Benjamin C. Wilson, and Linwood H. Cousins Ethnicity in Michigan: Issues and People, by Jack Glazier and Arthur W. Helweg Finnish Folklore, by Leea Virtanen and Thomas DuBois Five Windows into Africa, by Patrick McNaughton, John H. Hanson, dele jegede, Ruth M. Stone, and N. Brian Winchester Folklore in Modern India (ISFNR XI Congress Papers, Volume 3), ed. Jawaharlal Handoo Forgetting Frolic: Marriage Traditions in Ireland, by Linda May Ballard Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition, by Deborah Kapchan Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Morality in American Culture, by Richard P. Horwitz In Praise of Black Women: Ancient African Queens, by Simone Schwarz-Bart, with André Schwarz-Bart The Jack-in-the-Green: A May Day Custom, by Roy Judge Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation, Edited by Larry Evers and Barre Toelken, with foreword by John Miles Foley Polish-American Folklore, by Deborah Anders Silverman The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965, by James Clifton Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses, by Lisa McNee Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, by Charles Joyner To Be a Worker: Identity and Politics in Peru, by Jorge Parodi Turkish Folklore and Oral Literature: Selected Essays of Ilhan Basgoz, by Ilhan Basgoz, ed. Kemal Silay Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West, by Anne M. Butler and Ona Siporin Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory and Southern Identity, Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage The World's Rim: Great Mysteries of the North American Indians, by Hartley Burr Alexander

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HUMOR
Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor, by Emil A. Draitser Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre, by Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj Why Don't Sheep Shrink When It Rains? A Further Collection of Photocopier Folklore, by Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter

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INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF FOLKLORE
International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore, ed.Alan Dundes Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity, by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays On Vernacular Culture, by Archie Green Toward New Perspectives in Folklore, ed. Américo Paredes and Richard Bauman

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MATERIAL CULTURE
Kokopelli: The Making of an Icon, by Ekkehart Malotki Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs About Protection and Fertility, ed. Linda Welters Material Culture, by Henry Glassie The Potter's Art, by Henry Glassie

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MUSIC AND DANCE

Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Songs, Music, and Culture, by Brenda F. Berrian Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86, by Carl Fleischhauer and Neil V. Rosenberg Dance in Cambodia, by Toni Samantha Phim and Ashley Thompson Sounds English: Transnational Popular Music, by Nabeel Zuberi In the Wake of Bartók in Anatolia, by János Sipos Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews, by Kay Kaufman Shelemay Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience, by Harris M. Berger Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush: Songs and History, by Jean A. Murray Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora, by Helen Myers Music, Race, and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia, by Peter Wade Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes, by Jeff Todd Titon Race, Rock, and Elvis, by Michael T. Bertrand Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance, by Michelle Kisliuk Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong, by Ruth Rubin

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NARRATIVE / VERBAL ART

Epic/Oral Literature Folk/Fairy Tale Legend Narrative Theory Myth and Theater Print Literature Proverbs and Sayings Ethnography of Communication EPIC/ORAL LITERATURE An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics, trans. James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur, by Kira Van Deusen Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits, by Alf Hiltebeitel FOLK/FAIRY TALE All the World's Reward: Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers, ed. Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska, by Edwin S. Hall Jr. Fairytale in the Ancient World, by Graham Anderson Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time, ed. Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen, and Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, by Eli Yassif I, Hoca Nasreddin, Never Shall I Die: A Thematic Analysis of Hoca Stories, by Ilhan Basgöz and Pertev N. Boratav Mazzasprunígliola: Tradizione del Racconto nel Chianti Senese, by Fabio Mugnaini Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition, by Stuart Blackburn, edited by Lauri Honko The Moral of the Story: Folktales for Character Development, by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Traditions, by Jack Zipes LEGEND Did You Hear About the Girl Who. . . . ?: Contemporary Legends, Folklore, and Human Sexuality, by Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend, by David Thomson Robin Hood: Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism, ed. Stephen Knight The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story!, by Jan Harold Brunvand The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates, by Marjatta Jauhiainen. MYTH and THEATER The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, by Adrienne Mayor Karagiozis: Three Classic Plays, ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Linda Myrsiades Mythology and Folklore in South-East Asia, compiled by Jan Knappert Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity, by Isidore Okpewho Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, by Bruce Lincoln NARRATIVE THEORY Homer's Traditional Art, by John Miles Foley The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature, by Peter Seitel Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature, by Marilyn Jurich Story, by Harold Scheub Thick Corpus, Organic Variation and Textuality in Oral Tradition, ed. Lauri Honko PRINT LITERATURE From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale, by Nancy L. Canepa From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature, by Maria Nikolajeva La Letteratura di Consumo nel Mondo Greco Latino, ed. Oronzo Pecere and Antonio Stramaglia Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, ed. Keala Jewell The Sappho Companion, Edited and Introduced by Margaret Reynolds PROVERBS and SAYINGS More Words, More Arrows: A Further Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings, by Shirley Kumove ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION Signs of Diaspora, Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolizations, and Vernacular Practice in African America, by Grey Gundaker The Trial Lawyer's Art, by Sam Schrager

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REFERENCE WORKS
Dictionary of Chicano Folklore, by Rafaela G. Castro A Dictionary of English Folklore, by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenberg Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow

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