Recently added articles from Journal of American Folklore:
Key Ingredients: America by Food
Jan 01, 2009; ... Key Ingredients: America by Food. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Museum on Main Street, Washington, DC. Curated by Charley Camp. This exhibit is scheduled to travel to over 165 sites between 2003 and 2010. Food is currently a hot topic in academia, ...
Iowa Place-based Foods
Jan 01, 2009; ... Iowa Place-based Foods. Iowa Arts Council in cooperation with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Developed by Rachelle H. Saltzman. This is an online exhibit, which is available at http://www.Iowaartscouncil.org/ programs/folk-and-traditional-arts/place_ based_foods. As ...
Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Jan 01, 2009; ... Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish. By Dovid Katz. (New York: Basic Books, 2004. Pp. xvi + 430, acknowledgments, notes on transcription, introduction, 58 photographs and illustrations, index.) Dovid Katz's Words on Fire thoroughly lays out the history (and prehistory) of the ...
Gallo Pinto: Tradition, Memory, and Identity in Costa Rican Foodways
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article traces the social history of gallo pinto (rice and beans) in Costa Rica in order to unpack the meaning of this innocuous marker of southern Costa Rican identity. Southern Costa Ricans describe pinto as a traditional food, yet they reject its possible origin in Afro-Costa Rican ...
Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor: Culinary Tourism, Contemporary Legends, and the Urban Interzone
Jan 01, 2009; ... A contemporary legend active in 1910 held that white women were at risk of being abducted into involuntary slavery if they visited an ice cream parlor. This article grounds this legend in the emergence of ice cream into everyday American foodways, a trend paralleled by the growing economic ...
The Essential Idea of the Blues Formula: A Response to David Evans
Jan 01, 2009; ... I would like to thank the editors of the Journal of American Folklore for inviting me to respond to David Evans's "Formulaic Composition in the Blues: A View from the Field" (2007), and I also thank Evans for taking the time and energy to write his critique of my work. In the following pages, I ...
Introduction
Jan 01, 2009; ... It is currently commonplace to quote the nineteenth-century French philosopher Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's observation that, loosely paraphrased, asserts "you are what you eat" ([1825] 1971:3). What this claim actually means, however, is open to interpretation.1 At the 2006 annual meeting of ...
Vernacular Health Moralities and Culinary Tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article addresses class-based moral judgments as a crucial aspect of both informal and consciously constructed kinds of culinary tourism in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Interview and survey data, as well as Internet travelogues, further reveal the development and ...
Arctic Son
Jan 01, 2009; ... Arctic Son. 2006. By Dallas Brennan Rexer and Elizabeth Mandel. 76 min. DVD format, color. (Arts Engine, Inc./Big Mouth Films, New York.) It is not self-contradictory to state that extraordinary stories can be found anywhere. The information in such narratives lies in the dramas that ...
Gorg Mifsud-Chircop (1951-2007)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Suffering from an illness that had only been detected a few months before, and only a few days after returning home from an unsuccessful treatment in England, Dr. Gorg (George) Mifsud-Chircop passed away in his native country of Malta on December 19, 2007. Mifsud-Chircop was born on June ...
1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh/Gaelic Songs of Scotland: Women at Work in the Western Isles
Jan 01, 2009; ... 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 2005. Produced by Anna Lomax Wood and Jeffrey A. Greenberg. Edited and annotated by Ewan McVicar. Gaelic song transcriptions, translations, and notes by Morag NicLeod. Piping notes by Dougie Pincock. Rounder Records, CD (1), 11661-1786-2. Gaelic ...
It's Time for Another One: Folksongs from the South Coast of Newfoundland-Ramea and Grole
Jan 01, 2009; ... It's Time for Another One: Folksongs from the South Coast of Newfoundland-Ramea and Grole, 2005. Produced by Beverley Diamond. Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP), Memorial University of Newfoundland, CD (1), n.n. In 1967 and 1968, Jesse Fudge from Grole, a ...
Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions
Jan 01, 2009; ... Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions. By Gabrielle Hat- field. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Pp. xxii + 392, introduction, 47 photographs or other illustrations, references cited following each entry, index.) This encyclopedia has a tighter focus than ...
Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism
Jan 01, 2009; ... Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism. By Cristina Bacchilega. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 230, preface, introduction, notes, works cited, index, acknowledgments.) "There is no need for me to politicize ...
Once upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception
Jan 01, 2009; ... Once upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception. By Diane E. Goldstein. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 210, 1 figure, appendix, references cited, index.) For the study of contemporary legend to assume its rightful place at the forefront of ...
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. By Ernesto De Martino. Trans. and ann. by Dorothy Louise Zinn. (London: Free Association Books, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 332, foreword, translator's note, preface, introduction, photographs and illustrations, table, epilogue, appendices, ...
Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America
Jan 01, 2009; ... Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. By Marcia Gaudet. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Pp. xvii + 221, foreword, preface, 16 photographs, one map, two appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index.) From 1894 to 1999, Carville, Louisiana, was the site of the only ...
Work is Art and Art is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments
Jan 01, 2009; ... Work is Art and Art is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments. An American Masterpieces exhibit funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and administered through the Missouri Folk Arts Program/Missouri Arts Council. Curated by Deborah Bailey. Project design by Lisa Higgins. This exhibit ...
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. By Wendell Berry. Photographs by James Baker Hall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 78, 47 black-and-white photographs, photograph identifications.) Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy is in most senses a coffee table book. The text covers only ...
A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America/Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. By James E. McWilliams. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 387, 22 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food. Ed. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide, and Susanne ...