Books for Review

Western Folklore welcomes all inquiries and is especially pleased to hear from graduate students, junior faculty, public folklorists, and independent scholars. Submission deadlines are generous and negotiable. Reviews follow a standard format, a description and an example of which may be found by clicking the Book Review Guidelines button at the top of the navigation bar to the left.

The list of titles below shows all titles currently available for review. This list is updated in the spring and fall; interim arrivals are merged with the existing list. Titles are removed from the list as they are assigned for review. If your browser saves page images for fast loading, you may find you are looking at an outdated list. Be sure to reload the page image to make sure the book is still available.

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Send review book requests to the book-review editor by e-mail (lisa.gabbert@usu.edu), by phone at (435) 797-2721, or by surface mail to:

Lisa Gabbert
Book Review Editor, Western Folklore
284 E. Kensington Ave.
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

List of titles as of November 14, 2009

Alonzo, Juan J. 2009. Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes: The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Asma, Stephen T. 2009. On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears. Oxford University Press.

Bennett, Marjorie. 2009. Windy Stories: Storytelling Traditions from the Salmon River Idaho. i Universe.

Besnier, Niko. 2009. Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics. Manoa: University of Hawaii Press.

Blank, Trevor J., ed. 2009. Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Buhs, Joshua Blu, 2009. Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cohen, Judah M. 2009. The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Cutchins, Dennis, and Eric A. Eliason, eds. 2009. Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America. Lexington: University of Tennessee Press.

Ferris, William. 2009. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Fox, Christie. 2008. Breaking Forms: The Shift to Performance in Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Hinson, Glenn, and William Ferris, eds. 2009. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 14: Folklife. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

M’Baye, Babacar. 2009. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Diasporan Narratives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

McCormick, James, and Macy Wyatt. 2009. Ghosts of the Bluegrass. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.

McLeod, Michael. 2009. Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

McNaughton, Patrick. A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Mieder, Wolfgang. 2009. “Yes We Can”: Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric. Peter Lang Publishing.

Montell, Lynwood. 2009. Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, eds. Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Oliver, M. Cynthia. 2009. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Olson, Ted and Anthony P. Cavender, eds. 2009. A Tennessee Folklore Sampler. Lexington: University of Tennessee Press.

Perrault, Charles. 2009. The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault. Trans. Christopher Betts. Oxford University Press.

Porter, James. 2009. Genre, Conflict, Presence: Traditional Ballads in a Modernizing World. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Record, Ian W. Big Sycamore Stands Alone: The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Roth, Christoper F. Becoming Tsimshian: The Social Life of Names. University of Washington Press, 2008.

Schwitters, Kurt. 2009. Lucky Hans and other Merz Fairy Tales. Translated by Jack Zipes. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Shorter, David Delgado. 2009. We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Thompson, M. Terry, and Steven M. Egesdal, eds. Salish Myths and Legends: One People’s Stories. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Untiedt, Kenneth L., ed. 2008. Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXV. Denton: University of North Texas Press.

Wells, Robert V. 2009. Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.