Book Review – Page 2 – Folklore Forum

Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World

31 Dec 20126 Jan 2013

Blank, Trevor J., ed. Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Logan, UT, Utah State University Press, 2009. p.272. $24.95pb or free .pdf at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/ Monica Foote Indiana…

Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America

Dennis Cutchins and Eric A. Eliason, Eds. Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. Pp. xxi + 230, black and white photographs,…

Corridos in Migrant Memory

Chew Sánchez, Martha I. Corridos in Migrant Memory. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. pp. 246 34 halftones, 4 maps, index. Paper $29.95. Heather A. Vrana Indiana University…

Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity

Greenhill, Pauline and Sidney Eve Matrix, ed. Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010. p. xiii + 263. List of tale types, bibliography, filmography, index.…

The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale

20 Aug 201220 Aug 2012

Tamar Alexander-Frizer. The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Xiv + 690 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-2971-9. $65.00 Hardcover. David Elton Gay Indiana University The…

Thomas Burton. Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks.

Thomas Burton. Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. $32.95 cloth. Danielle E. Quales Indiana University In this book, Burton presents the…

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

Carolyn E. Ware. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xi+233, photographs, notes, index. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Nichole…

Thomas Huanca L. Tsimane Oral Tradition, Landscape, and Identity in Tropical Forest

Tomas Huanca L. Tsimane Oral Tradition, Landscape, and Identity in Tropical Forest. La Paz, Bolivia: SEPHIS – South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development. 2006. Pp. iii+279,…

Mary Noailles Murfree. ed. Bill Hardwig. In the Tennessee Mountains

20 Mar 201220 Mar 2012

Mary Noailles Murfree. Ed. Bill Hardwig. In the Tennessee Mountains. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. Pp. xlviii +167. $24.95 paper. Danielle Quales Indiana University The main body of this…

William Schneider, ed. Living With Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering

6 Mar 20126 Mar 2012

William Schneider, ed. Living With Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering. Logan: Utah State Press, 2008. pp. 175 pages. ISBN: 978-0-87421-689-9 (cloth) $27.95 cloth, $23.00 e-book. Kristiana Willsey Indiana University Living…

Lindsay Hale. Hearing the Mermaids Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio De Janeiro

Lindsay Hale. Hearing the Mermaids Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio De Janeiro. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. 6 x 9 pp208. $26.95 paperback. Taylor Schlichter Indiana University…