Recently added articles from Western Folklore:

ARCHER TAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE 2006: Is the Pope Still Catholic? Historical Observations on Sarcastic Interrogatives

Jan 01, 2008; Doyle, Charles Clay ... Ask a stupid question, and you'll get . . . a stupid question. In 1975, in the first issue of Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore (later renamed Midwestern Folklore), I undertook to define and discuss a minor subcategory of proverbs in English that I designated "sarcastic interrogative ...

Place, Space, and Disruption: A Response to the Question "Why Doesn't She Just Leave?

Jan 01, 2008; Lawless, Elaine J ... My earliest memory is-I was . . . I'm going to say I was three, and-this is a screwed up first memory-I witnessed my father get murdered by my uncle. My uncle came in and shot my dad. From there I moved to a new apartment and I got a new dad . . . then we moved from the city to a small town . ....

"You Know About Needle Boy, Right?": Variation in Rumors and Legends About Attacks with HIV-Infected Needles

Jan 01, 2008; Correll, Timothy Corrigan ... Legends have been characterized as elastic, evolving, or emergent in nature, and a wealth of studies have explored how such stories may share a narrative core, yet can be elaborated in diverse ways that reflect the varied socio-cultural milieus as well as personal predilections, creative ...

Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts

Jan 01, 2008; Young, Kristi A ... Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts. By Laura L. Bush. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. Pp. 244, acknowledgments, preface, introduction, appendices, notes, works cited, index. $23.95 paper) In Faithful ...

The Genre of Trolls: the Case of a Finland-Swedish Folk Belief Tradition

Jan 01, 2008; Kellogg, Christopher ... The Genre of Trolls: the Case of a Finland-Swedish Folk Belief Tradition. By Camilla Asplund Ingemark. (Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2004. Pp.xiv + 328, preface, introduction, bibliography, appendices, photograph, illustrations. N.P. paper) "Little Matt," a tale that ...

Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture

Jan 01, 2008; Evans, Timothy H ... Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. By Bill Ellis. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xii + 271, acknowledgments, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth) In Lucifer Ascending, a sequel of sorts to Raising the Devil ...

The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern

Jan 01, 2008; Lancaster, Guy ... The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. By Alex Owen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 356, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 cloth, $22.50 paper) At the beginning of his classic ...

Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

Jan 01, 2008; McKernan, Michael ... Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture. By E. N. Anderson. (New York: New York University Press, 2005). Pp. viii + 295, introduction, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth) Crusading "to improve world nutrition," (8) E. N. Anderson says his work is not a ...

Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe

Jan 01, 2008; Shortlidge, Jack ... Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe. By Bob Black. Foreword by Neil Rosenberg. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 188, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, appendices, notes, biblio-discography, index. $40.00 cloth, $21.95 paper); ...

Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them

Jan 01, 2008; Deutsch, James ... Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them. By Sandra K. Dolby. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 192, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth) Popular books of self-enlightenment, such as All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Fulghum) or I ...

Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to the Goldbergs

Jan 01, 2008; Koven, Mikel J ... Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to the Goldbergs. By Donald Weber. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 250, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth) My disappointment with ...

Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy

Jan 01, 2008; Horton, Laurel ... Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy. By Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Carol Vickers. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp. 119, introduction, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $28.00 cloth. Threading the Generations is based on a collection ...

Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Jan 01, 2008; Camp, Charles ... Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. By Carl Knappett. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 202, preface, maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth) "Material culture"-the phrase, not the thing to ...

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

Jan 01, 2008; Halley, Morgiana P ... Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party. By Alan L. Spurgeon. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp. viii + 238, acknowledgments, introduction, musical notation, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth) Waltz the Hall intrigued me from the first. My great-grandmother, a ...

What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life

Jan 01, 2008; Hill, Reinhold ... What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life. Edited by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. Pp. 190, introduction, notes, bibliographies. $22.95 paper) What Goes Around Comes Around brings ...

"In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

Jan 01, 2008; Haring, Lee ... "In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. By Dell Hymes. New preface by author. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1981] 2004). Pp. viii + 403, introduction, maps, tables, index of translations and texts, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper); Now I Know Only So ...

Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory

Jan 01, 2008; Hernandez, Jo Farb ... Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory. Edited by Ariel Zeitlin Cooke and Marsha MacDowell. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum, in collaboration with City Lore, Inc. [New York City] and the Vermont Folklife Center [Middlebury], 2005. Pp. xiii + 101, acknowledgments, preface, object ...

Carnaval!

Jan 01, 2008; Gaudet, Marcia ... Carnaval! Edited by Barbara Mauldin. (Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, in association with the University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. 342, foreword, acknowledgments, introductions, photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 paper) Carnaval! is an ...