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Jerry M. Hay. Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America’s Waterways.

Jerry M. Hay. Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America’s Waterways. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 308, photographs, index. $19.95 paper. Callie Clare Indiana University It is clear in reading…

Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do.

Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2006. Pp.xi+298, photos, illustrations, index. $34.95 cloth. B. Grantham Aldred…

Stephen Benson, ed. Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale.

26 Apr 20104 May 2010

Stephen Benson, ed. Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Pp. 209, index. Jeana Jorgensen Indiana University Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale is a…

Elizabeth Tucker. Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses

Elizabeth Tucker. Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Jeffrey Tolbert Indiana University Popular volumes dedicated to ghosts and…

Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel

1 May 20091 May 2009

Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 312 pages, 48 halftones. $62.50 cloth, $25.00 paper. Tracy Musacchio Knox College Tourism has a profound…

Ulrich Marzolph, ed. The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective

Ulrich Marzolph, ed. The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective. Wayne State University Press, 2007. 348 pages, $31.95 paper. Fredericka Schmadel Indiana University Ulrich Marzolph, editor of Wayne State University Press’s…

Harold Hinds, et al. Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction

8 Apr 20098 Apr 2009

Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, eds. Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction. Madison: Popular Press/ University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp.…

Sydney Hutchinson. From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture

5 Nov 200814 Jan 2009

Sydney Hutchinson. From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 240 pages. $24.95 softcover. Gustavo Ponce Independent Scholar Sydney Hutchinson’s From Quebradita…

Keila Diehl. Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community

5 Nov 200814 Jan 2009

Keila Diehl. Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xi+312, illustrations, glossary, index. $25.00 paper.…

David Buchan and James Moreira, eds. The Glenbuchat Ballads

5 Nov 20085 Apr 2010

David Buchan and James Moreira, eds. The Glenbuchat Ballads. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. lxxiv + 274, multiple indices, glossary. $60.00 hardbound. Sarah Lash Indiana University In the early…

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…