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AFS 2020 Commentary

Although we couldn’t engage in stimulating hallway conversations during this year’s annual meeting, Folklore Forum hopes to continue the dialogue by publishing comments, thought pieces, critiques, and reflections on the 2020 meeting in their upcoming issue. Do you have thoughts you’d like to share about a sponsored panel or series of thematically related panels? Did you feel inspired by the one of the public folklore workshops? Do you want to reflect on the virtual nature of the conference this year? Now’s your chance to keep the conversation going!

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Trickster Press, housed at the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, invites submissions from interested folks at any stage of their academic careers for the upcoming edition of Folklore Forum. We are an online, interdisciplinary, and graduate student-run open-access journal dedicated, but not limited, to the disciplines of folklore and ethnomusicology.…Continue reading “Submissions”

24Jun 20207 Oct 2020
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Review: The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World. Edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. 2016. Logan:…

24Jun 202024 Jun 2020
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Review: Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era

Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era. Edited by Franz Rickaby with Gretchen Dykstra and James P. Leary.…

24Jun 202024 Jun 2020
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“Hometown Cooking”: Layering Values, Mass-Produced, and Garden-Raised Foods in Tater Tot Hot Dish in Southwest Minnesota

Abstract: Hot dishes, or casseroles, are popularly conceptualized as meals comprised merely of mass-produced ingredients. Through a close reading of…

Health…

Beneath the Outrage: 2009 Task Force Recommendations Undermine Online Breast Cancer Community

13 Sep 2011
Beneath the Outrage: 2009 Task Force Recommendations Undermine Online Breast Cancer Community Christal Seahorn University of Louisiana at Lafayette Abstract: In November of 2009, the United States Preventative Services Task…
Book Review

Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou, eds. Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean

6 Sep 20116 Sep 2011
Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou, eds. Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 289 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paperback. Nichole Tramel Indiana University…
Latin America…

Mythic Narrative Performances: The Myth of the Kharisiri

29 Aug 201129 Aug 2011
Mythic Narrative Performances: The Myth of the Kharisiri Vannessa Pelaez-Barrios Indiana University Abstract: In this essay, I analyze and explore the linguistic and poetic dimensions of language used by people…
Book Review…

Jim Pieper, Guatemala’s Masks and Drama.

23 Aug 201123 Aug 2011
Jim Pieper. Guatemala’s Masks and Drama. Torrance, Calif: Pieper and Associates, 2006. pp284. $65.00 hard cover, $45.00 paper. Mary Mesteller Indiana University Guatemala’s Masks and Drama by Jim Pieper aims…
Editor Remarks…

From the Editor

15 Aug 2011
Dear Reader, In the Fall of 2009, Folklore Forum issued a call for papers on cultural manifestations of violence and socio-cultural trauma. It was a weighty topic, but one selected…
Book Review…

Jarold Ramsey and Lori Burlingame, eds. In Beauty I Walk: The Literary Roots of Native American Writing.

29 Apr 2011
Jarold Ramsey and Lori Burlingame, eds. In Beauty I Walk: The Literary Roots of Native American Writing.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2008.  6 x 9 pp 395. $27.95…
Central Asia…

Beijing Duck 2008: Culinary Tourism, Cultural Performance, and Heritage Protection

20 Apr 20111 Aug 2011
Beijing Duck 2008: Culinary Tourism, Cultural Performance, and Heritage Protection Curtis Ashton Utah State University Abstract: During the 2008 Olympic season, two rival restaurants in Beijing saw an opportunity to…
Book Review…

Emily Mendenhall, ed. Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth.

8 Apr 2011
Emily Mendenhall, ed. Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+216, glossary, contributors, line drawings, maps, index. $21.95 paper. Nicholas Hartmann Memorial…
Foodways…

The Snob, the Rube and the Connoisseur

1 Apr 20111 Aug 2011
The Snob, the Rube and the Connoisseur: Sideways and the Legitimation of "Culinary Capital" Margot Finn University of Michigan Abstract: In this essay, I analyze the critically-acclaimed 2004 film Sideways…
Book Review…

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

25 Mar 2011
Philip Hayward.  Bounty Chords:  Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands.  Eastleigh, UK:  John Libbey & Co, 2006. Pp 256.  £15.00. Kevin Hood Indiana University In Philip…
Foodways…

Fruits and Culture: A Preliminary Examination of Food-for-Sex Metaphors in English-language Caribbean Music

21 Mar 20111 Aug 2011
Fruits and Culture: A Preliminary Examination of Food-for-Sex Metaphors in English-language Caribbean Music Lyra Spang Indiana University Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways that food,…

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