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If you are a dues-paying member of WSFS, you should have recently received a copy of Western Folklore vol. 85 no. 1 Spring 2026 in your mailbox at home. As you may have noticed, our publishing timeline has changed recently. Copies of Western Folklore will still reach your inboxes on a quarterly schedule. To continue getting access to Western Folklore, please be sure to sign up or renew membership through our Membership Page to pay our membership fees online, as well as update your mailing address as needed.

This issue of Western Folklore included the following contents:

Notes from the Editor

Tim Thurston

Articles:

Echoes of Resillience: Storytelling , History, and the Fight for Justice

Darren Parry, Archer Taylor Lecture, 2025

Embodying Heritage in Cal and Lou Courville's Cajun Dance

Brandon Barker

A Conceptual Analysis of ICH Safeguarding (Baohu) in China: Internationaal Convention, National Translation, and Local Implementation

Lijun Zhang 

Is there a multispecies folk in the city?

Nicholas Miller

Reviews:

Ronald M. James, Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West

Reviewed by Niya Arshadnia

Martha A. Sandweiss, The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

Reviewed by James I. Deutsch

Norma E. Cantú, Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington’s Birthday

Reviewed by Kirstin C. Erickson

Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins, Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century

Reviewed by Jeff Fields Mccormack

Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason, Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Reviewed by Josie Garza Medina

Judith S. Neulander, Folklore of Lake Erie

Reviewed by Nicholas Miller

Liora Sarfati, Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital

Reviewed by Basil Payne

Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Ali Qadir, Symbols and Myth- making in Modernity: Deep Culture in Art and Action

Reviewed by Tian Chunlin

Addenda and Corrigenda

In the previous issue of Western Folklore, Vol. 84, No. 4,

please note the following:

• In the article "Chinese Contemporary Ghost Legends" by Chen Kuanhao, an important note did not make it to print. The note is as follows:

This paper is a periodic achievement of the General Program of the National Social Science Fund of China titled "Collation and Research on Contemporary Legends of Taiwan from the Perspective of the Chinese National Community" (Project No. 24BZW160).

• Dr. Peng Ruihong's name was incorrectly spelled in the Table of Contents and on page 465.

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Do not hesitate to reach out to me, WSFS Operations Manager, with any questions you may have about this new system. We look forward to improving our operations and continuing to meet the needs of our membership. Happy folklore-ing!

Sincerely,

Daisy Ahlstone

Operations Manager

operationsmanager@westernfolklore.org

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