Western Folklore back issues from July 2007:
Space, Place, Emergence
Jul 01, 2007; ... The idea for this special issue emerged during a conversation at a meeting of the Western States Folklore Society. Space and place had taken such a central position in general social theory, we wondered, was there anything left to say about it? Could folklorists contribute to that conversation? ...
The Boma and the Peripatetic Ruler: Mapping Colonial Rule in German East Africa, 1889-1903
Jul 01, 2007; ... Historians of European colonialism in Africa tend to neglect large areas of the colonial state's territory, often focusing on a history of colonial rule's main places. It is a history of towns and administrative centers, of plantations and mines, of mission stations and governmental schools ....
Situating the Local by Inventing the Global: Community Festival and Social Change
Jul 01, 2007; ... Every year during its Winter Carnival, the village of McCall, located in the mountainous region of west central Idaho, transforms itself into an outdoor museum of snow and ice. Sculptures made entirely of snow and as large as buildings can be found on street corners, in front of buildings, and ...
Portable Places: Serial Collaboration and the Creation of a New Sense of Place
Jul 01, 2007; ... In 1977, cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan defined place as "a special kind of object." He called place a "concretion of value, though not a valued thing that can be handled or carried about easily; it is an object in which one can dwell" (1977:12). Since then, defining "place" has been a popular ...
Bellydance in the Town Square: Leaking Peace through Tribal Style Identity
Jul 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION: COOLER THAN BARBIE Tiny girls sit in a make-shift front row, unblinking as dancers whirl and twist by them. The music, vaguely Middle Eastern with a hip-hop backbeat, seems incongruous in the setting: a public park in southwest Missouri, more commonly occupied by ...
Islamic Head Covering among Turkish Women in the U.S.: Creating International Spaces of Difference
Jul 01, 2007; ... Islamic head and body covering is often stereotyped in the West as an exotic cultural practice that, at best, represents patriarchal oppression, and, at worst, violent extremism. Having lived for several months in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, with frequent visits to Turkey, I had ...
Sharing Prosperity: Critical Regionalism and Place-based Social Change
Jul 01, 2007; ... And so Shared Prosperity, I feel, the people of North Philadelphia, together, together, we have a tremendous future. And it's critical, because if we are not together, the outside world is going to come and divide us and we mil be lost. . . . For me, this is not about North Philadelphia or the ...
Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice and the Fairy Tale Tradition
Jul 01, 2007; ... Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice and the Fairy Tale Tradition. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 156, introduction, map, photograph, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth) This book addresses the contribution ...
Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
Jul 01, 2007; ... Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul. By Roger D. Abrahams. With Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 102, introduction. $22.50 cloth) The devastation of New Orleans brought about by the ...
The Stars of Ballymenone
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Stars of Ballymenone. By Henry Classic. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. 574, map, photographs, illustrations, compact disc, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth) In The Stars of Ballymenone Henry Classic returns to the Irish borderland of County ...
Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader, 1898-1948
Jul 01, 2007; ... Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader, 1898-1948. By Will Evans. Edited by Susan E. Woods and Robert S. McPherson. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii + 264, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, map, appendix, notes, index. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 ...
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection
Jul 01, 2007; ... Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection. Edited by Simon J. Ortiz. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 172, photographs, index of illustrations. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper); The Corporeal Image: Film, ...
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
Jul 01, 2007; ... Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. By Gananath Obeyesekere. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xx + 320, preface, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. $21.95 paper) Gananath Obeyesekere is best known for discussing ...
Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942
Jul 01, 2007; ... Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942. By George T. Blakey. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. 262, introduction, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth) The Federal Arts Program, which comprised a small but ...
Discovering North American Rock Art
Jul 01, 2007; ... Discovering North American Rock Art. Edited by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher Chippindale, and David S. Whitley. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 334, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 ...
The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. By Ernesto De Martino. Translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn. Foreword by Vincent Crapanzano. (London: Free Association Books, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 322, foreword, translator's note, preface, introduction, photographs, ...
Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
Jul 01, 2007; ... Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942. By John Wesley Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams, Jr. Edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 343, preface, introduction, ...
Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
Jul 01, 2007; ... Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life. By Laurel Horton. Foreword by Michael Owen Jones. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 184, illustrations, notes, index. $19.95 paper) After examining this book, I turned to my ...
The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. By Susan Slyomovics. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 271, introduction, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper) With this compelling, beautifully written, ...
Who is Bozo Texino?: The Secret History of Hobo Graffiti
Jul 01, 2007; ... Who is Bozo Texino?: The Secret History of Hobo Graffiti. By Bill Daniel. Film, 55 min. black and white, 16mm and Super-8, DVE. (Shreveport, LA: Bill Daniel, 2005. $20.00 DVD) "Bozo Texino" could be the pseudonym of J. H. McKinley, who was born m a Kentucky log cabin and later worked out ...