Western Folklore

September 11: The Burden of the Ephemeral 155
Kay Turner

Faces in the Fire: Images of Terror in Oral Märchen and in the Wake of September 11 209
Carl Lindahl

The Sounds of Silence: Foreknowledge, Miracles, Suppressed Narratives, and Terrorism—What Not Telling Might Tell Us 235
Diane Goldstein

They Are Among Us and They Are Against Us: Contemporary Horror Stories about Muslims and Immigrants in the Netherlands 257
Theo Meder

The Smiley Gang Panic: Ethnic Legends about Gang Rape in the Netherlands in the Wake of 9/11 275
Peter Burger

Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, Editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia 297
Reviewed by Guy Lancaster

Dwight F. Reynolds, Arab Folklore: A Handbook 299
Reviewed by Zulfiya Tursunova

Steve Newman, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism 301
Reviewed by Mary-Ann Constantine

William A. Dodge, Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place 303
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl

Carolyn E. Ware, Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward 305
Reviewed by James Reitter

Nicholas Howe, Editor, Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe 307
Reviewed by Lori Ann Garner and Renée R. Trilling

María Herrera-Sobek, Chicano Folklore: A Handbook 309
Reviewed by Gustavo Ponce

Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai, Editors, Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present 312
Reviewed by Juwen Zhang

Greg Bottoms, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art 314
Reviewed by Moriah Hart

Simon J. Bronner, Crossing the Line: Violence, Play, and Drama in Naval Equator Traditions 316
Reviewed by Mickey Weems

Eviatar Zerubavel, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life 318
Reviewed by Anthony McCann

Edward Komara, Editor, Encyclopedia of the Blues 321
Reviewed by Peter B. Lowry

Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin’ Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old- Time Music Pioneer and His Musical Family 323
Reviewed by Drew Beisswenger

Gregory Hansen, A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman 325
Reviewed by Jan Rosenberg

Bonnie C. Marshall and Virginia A. Tashjian, The Flower of Paradise and Other Armenian Tales 326
Reviewed by Renee Crawford

Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven, Editors, Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture 328
Reviewed by James Deutsch

Clark “Bucky” Halker and Paul Tyler, Editors, Folksongs of Illinois 330
Reviewed by Gregory Hansen

Sydney Hutchinson, From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture 332
Reviewed by Nancy Lee Ruyter

James R. Dow, German Folklore: A Handbook 334
Reviewed by Moriah Hart

William Lynwood Montell, Editor, Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland 335
Reviewed by Trevor J. Blank

Thomas A. Green, Editor, The Greenwood Library of American Folktales 337
Reviewed by Steve Warrick

James J. Lorence, A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West 339
Reviewed by Nancy L. Watterson

Adam Gussow, Journeyman’s Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post 9/11 New York 341
Reviewed by John Wolford

Cristina Bacchilega, Legendary Hawai’i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism 343
Reviewed by Holly Hobbs

Thomas A. DuBois, Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe 345
Reviewed by James Reitter

Abigail A. Van Slyck, A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 and Lee H. Whittlesey, Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides 347
Reviewed by Teri Brewer

el-Shamy, Hasan, A Motif Index of the Thousand and One Nights 350
Reviewed by Dana Kramer-Rolls

Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe, The Music of Bill Monroe 351
Reviewed by Drew Beisswenger

Charles Reagan Wilson, Editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 3: History 354
Reviewed by Guy Lancaster

Charles Reagan Wilson, Editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory 356
Reviewed by Maggi Michel

John T. Edge, Editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 7: Foodways 357
Reviewed by Theresa A. Vaughan

Martin Melosi, Editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment 359
Reviewed by Wendy Welch

Felicia R. McMahon, Not Just Child’s Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan 361
Reviewed by William Westerman

Nathan Hesselink, P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance 363
Reviewed by Judy Van Zile

Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita 365
Reviewed by Laura Ruth Marcus

Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory 367
Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli

Carol Crown and Charles Russell, Editors, Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art 369
Reviewed by Jo Farb Hernández

Craig Smith, Sing My Whole Life Long: Jenny Vincent’s Life in Folk Music and Activism 371
Reviewed by Maureen Loughran

Natalie Kononenko, Slavic Folklore: A Handbook 373
Reviewed by Inna Golovakha-Hicks

Michael Ann Williams, Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott 374
Reviewed by Miriam Robinson Gould

Ruth Tsoffar, The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women 376
Reviewed by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Jacqueline S. Thursby, Story: A Handbook 378
Reviewed by Amy Skillman

Margaret Read MacDonald, Ten Traditional Tellers 380
Reviewed by Wanda G. Addison

Jan Rosenberg, Editor, These Are Our Stories: Women’s Stories of Abuse and Survival 382
Reviewed by Ann K. Ferrell

Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust 384
Reviewed by Amy Shuman

Garth L. Green and Philip Scher, Editors, Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival 386
Reviewed by Vasiliki Sirakouli

Jennifer Milner Davis, Editor, Understanding Humor in Japan 388
Reviewed by Todd M. Callais

Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela D. Henderson, and Carla Paterson, Editors, Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma 390
Reviewed by Sheila Bock

Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience 392
Reviewed by Rachel Gianni Abbott

Dave Aftandilian, Marion W. Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson, Editors, What Are the Animals to Us?: Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art 394
Reviewed by James Reitter

Justin M. Nolan, Wild Harvest in the Heartland: Ethnobotany in Missouri’s Little Dixie 396
Reviewed by E. N. Anderson