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Editor's Note
Jan 01, 2009; ... Words on a page are small thanks for years of service guiding Western Folklore. Words are, however, the primary currency of researchers in folklore and beyond. With our new review editor, Lisa Gabbert, I offer my deepest thanks and gratitude to Sabina Magliocco as editor, Elizabeth Adams as ...
The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In this article I examine emergent acts that can be identified as forms of mumming or related to ritual house assaults and rough music. I question the nature of this linkage in terms of traditionality. I further suggest many events and symbolic social actions involve an intent ...
Lonely Ranchers, Solitary Students, and Angry Governors: Personal Vulnerability and Community Conflict in Yaqui Emotion Talk
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This article explores emotion discourses in a northern Mexican community. For Yaqui Indians, extreme emotional states are considered perilous: "anger" and "sadness" threaten community and jeopardize the self. The folklore of emotion - verbal acts and cautionary tales - reveals ...
The Birth of Fingerling as a Feminine Projection: Maternal Psychological Mechanisms in the Fingerling Fairy Tale
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Tale Type AT 700, named "Tom Thumb," is presented as an expression of maternal psychological mechanisms and of experiences that relate to the early mother-son relationship. The underdeveloped figure is presented as an expression of maternal-symbiotic needs, as well as of the ...
Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture
Jan 01, 2009; ... Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture. By William H. Beezley. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 206, preface, acknowledgments, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper) In this book, historian ...