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Month: February 2008

Editor Remarks

From the Editor-in-Chief

23 Feb 200826 Feb 2008
From the Editor-in-Chief  Dear Reader- Undertaking a special issue in honor of Professor Roger Janelli was no small matter. It was daunting, needless to say cheeky, to attempt to provide…
Editor Remarks

From the Guest Editor

23 Feb 200829 Feb 2008
From the Guest Editor This special issue of Folklore Forum is dedicated to Professor Roger L. Janelli, whose thirty-two years of distinguished scholarship and dedicated mentorship at Indiana University have…
Disciplinary History…

Japanese Folklore Studies and History: Pre-War and Post-War Inflections

23 Feb 200815 Mar 2008
Japanese Folklore Studies and History: Pre-War and Post-War Inflections   Adam Bronson Columbia University Abstract By exploring the relationship of Yanagita Kunio and folklore studies (minzokugaku) in reverse chronology, I…
East Asia…

“Neither Fish nor Fowl”: Constructing Peranakan Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Singapore

22 Feb 200824 Nov 2008
“Neither Fish nor Fowl”: Constructing Peranakan Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Singapore Patricia Ann Hardwick Indiana University Abstract This article traces the way in which political processes influence the creation…
East Asia…

Performing the ‘Traditional’ in the South Korean Musical World

22 Feb 20086 Mar 2008
Performing the 'Traditional' in the South Korean Musical World   Hilary Finchum-Sung University of San Francisco University of California at Berkeley Abstract This article examines contemporary, traditional music culture in…
East Asia…

Conversation with Roger L. Janelli

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008
Conversation with Roger L. Janelli   Sue-Je Lee Gage University of California at Berkeley Roger L. Janelli, professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at…
East Asia…

Liminal States: Life as an Indie Musician on Taiwan

22 Feb 20087 Mar 2008
Liminal States: Life as an Indie Musician on Taiwan   Mack Hagood Indiana University Abstract In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wan-ting, particularly as…
Book Review…

Huang Sui-chi. Essentials of Neo-Confucianism: Eight Major Philosophers of the Song and Ming Periods.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008
  Huang Sui-chi. Essentials of Neo-Confucianism: Eight Major Philosophers of the Song and Ming Periods. London: Greenwood, 1999. Pp. 280, glossary, bibliography, index. Lanlan (Diane) Kuang Indiana University Huang Sui-chi’s…
Book Review…

Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008
Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xvii + 171, bibliography, film bibliography, index. Steve Stanzak Indiana University As the subtitle suggests, this work…
Book Review…

Laura Gonzenbach. The Robber with a Witch’s Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008
Laura Gonzenbach. The Robber with a Witch’s Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales. Trans. Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xxxii+230. Illus.,…
Book Review…

Katherine Borland. Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008
Katherine Borland. Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. Pp. 184, notes, references, index. ISBN:0-8165-2511-0, $45.00 cloth. Elizabeth A. Burbach Indiana University Nicaragua…

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