Recently added articles from Journal of American Folklore:
Grove Street Grimm: Grand Theft Auto and Digital Folklore
Jul 01, 2008; Miller, Kiri ... This article investigates the Grand Theft Auto videogame series in order to demonstrate the potential of a folkloristic, ethnographic approach for the analysis of digital games. I discuss Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a story collection, a frame for performance, a virtual museum of vernacular ...
Pond-Women Revelations: The Subaltern Registers in Maithil Women's Expressive Forms
Jul 01, 2008; Davis, Coralynn V ... Ponds are ubiquitous in the Maithil region of Nepal, and they figure prominently in folk narratives and ceremonial paintings produced by women there. I argue that in Maithil women's folktales, as in their paintings, the trope of ponds shifts the imaginative register toward women's perspectives ...
Proverb Familiarity in the United States: Cross-Regional Comparisons of the Paremiological Minimum
Jul 01, 2008; Haas, Heather A ... Despite recent calls for establishing a paremiological minimum for the United States, there has been little systematic empirical attention devoted to the issue of proverb familiarity in this country or to the possibility that geographic differences might preclude establishing a single ...
Mennonite Choral Music Recordings of the West Coast Mennonite Chamber Choir
Jul 01, 2008; Dueck, Jonathan ... Mennonite Choral Music Recordings of the West Coast Mennonite Chamber Choir Mennonites, an Anabaptist Protestant group, practice diverse repertoires of music both in and out of church, but in Canada, as Doreen Klassen has noted, they are best known for their "fine choral singing" ...
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
Jul 01, 2008; Hanson, Debbie A ... When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. By John Patrick Daly. (Lexington: University of kentucky Press, 2002. Pp. 207, acknowledgments, epilogue, notes, selected bibliography, index.) One of the greatest quandaries facing those who ...
Culinary Tourism
Jul 01, 2008; Lockwood, Yvonne R ... Culinary Tourism. Ed. Lucy M. Long. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004. Pp. ix + 306, foreword, introduction, contributors, index.) Culinary Tourism is a welcome and provocative addition to the literature on foodways and tourism. An anthology of essays by food scholars from ...
Folk Saints of the Borderlands: Victims, Bandits, and Healers
Jul 01, 2008; Burkhardt, Paul E ... Folk Saints of the Borderlands: Victims, Bandits, and Healers. By James S. Griffith. (Tucson, AZ: Rio Nuevo, 2003. Pp. 175, 36 black-andwhite photographs, map, appendices on Mexican history and definitions, references, acknowledgments, index.) For over four decades, "Big Jim" Griffith ...
Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music, and Popular Culture
Jul 01, 2008; Buccitelli, Anthony ... Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music, and Popular Culture. By Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii + 185, preface, acknowledgments, notes, works cited, index.) This collection of five essays, ...
Handbook of Classical Mythology
Jul 01, 2008; Segal, Robert A ... Handbook of Classical Mythology. By William Hansen. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Pp. xiv + 394, index.) Reprinted in paperback as Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 394, index.) William ...
On Parade: Making Heritage in Lindsborg, Kansas
Jul 01, 2008; Lange, Michael A ... On Parade: Making Heritage in Lindsborg, Kansas. By Lizette Gradén. Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 15. (Uppsala, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2003. Pp. xiv + 247, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, prologue, appendix, bibliography.) On Parade is an ethnography of Swedish ...
Clear Word and Third Sight
Jul 01, 2008; Morrissey, Gloria J ... Clear Word and Third Sight. By Catherine A. John. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x + 241, introduction, afterword, notes, bibliography, index.) In Clear Word and Third Sight, Catherine John investigates Afro-Caribbean literature through the multiple lenses of negritude ...
Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches
Jul 01, 2008; Zolkover, Adam ... Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Ed. Donald Haase. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 268, illustrations, index, references cited.) Perhaps because of its wide appeal across the humanities and social sciences, the fairy tale has been the subject of more ...
Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
Jul 01, 2008; Giarelli, Andrew L ... Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales. Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Trans., ed., and introd. by Jack Zipes. Illus. by Joellyn Rock. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xxxii + 363, illustrations, references.) Jack Zipes makes a strong claim when he asserts ...
Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children
Jul 01, 2008; Rosenberg, Jan ... Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children. Eds. Kate Darian- Smith and June Factor. (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2005. Pp. vii + 231, 20 black-and-white photos, 33 illustrations, two appendices, bibliography.) Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of ...