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 Main List below shows all titles currently available for review. This list is updated in the spring and fall; interim arrivals are listed as needed in the New titles section. Books 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.

Any volumes you review for WF are of course yours to keep. You can find descriptive information about any title by Googling the publisher. Select any books from the list that look attractive for reviewing, but please investigate them via Google before actually requesting them.

Some titles have affinities of subject or theme that potentially draw them together. Reviewers who wish to cover two or more related titles in a single review may write a combined review.

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

New titles

All new titles have been merged with the Main List below.

Main list as of May 6, 2008

Anderson, Graham. Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Awakuni-Swetland, Mark. Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building from Memory. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Bernheimer, Kate, ed. Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales. Wayne State University Press, 2007.

Eastburn, Kathryn. A Sacred Feast: Reflections on Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Edgecomb, Diane, with contributions by Mohammed M.A. Ahmed and Ceto Ozel. A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales. Westport: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Gonzales, Phillip B. Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Heath, Jennifer, ed. The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics. University of California Press, 2008.

Idema, Wilt L., trans. Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend. University of Washington Press, 2008.

Johnson, Mary Elizabeth. Martha Skelton: Master Quilter of Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

Kennedy, E.A. III. Life, Liberty and the Mummers. Temple University Press, 2007.

Kohn, Rita, and W. Lynwood Montell. Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Lamothe, Daphne. Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Masters, Patricia Anne. The Philadelphia Mummers: Building Community through Play. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.

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

Montgomery, Michael, and Ellen Johnson, eds. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 5: Language. North Carolina. 2007.

Newman, Steve.Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism. Pennsylvania. 2007.

Noy, Chaim. A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers. Wayne State. 2007.

Ray, Celeste, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 6: Ethnicity. North Carolina. 2007.

Roberts, Kathleen Glenister. Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities. State University of New York Press, 2007.

Salsi, Lynn. The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales. University of Tennessee Press, 2008.

El-Shamy, Hasan M. A Motif Index of the One Thousand and One Nights. Indiana University Press, 2006.

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

Warwick, Jacqueline. Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s. New York and London: Routledge, 2007.

Wilkins, Teresa J. Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders. University of Okalahoma Press, 2008.

Wood, W. Warner. Made in Mexico: Zapotec Weavers and the Global Ethnic Art Market. Indiana University Press, 2008.