2020 Top JAF Articles

The following Journal of American Folklore articles were the 20 most viewed, printed, or downloaded from JSTOR during 2020.

1. E. C. Perrow. 1915. “Songs and Rhymes from the South.” JAF 28:108.
6863 prints, views, or downloads

2. Fletcher Gardner. 1906. “Philippine (Tagalog) Superstitions.” JAF 19:74.
6352 prints, views, or downloads

3. Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1955. “The Structural Study of Myth.” JAF 68:270.
6285 prints, views, or downloads

4. Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. 1915. “Clasificación de las Adivinanzas Rioplatenses.” JAF 28:110.
4753 prints, views, or downloads

5. Adrián Recinos. 1918. “Cuentos Populares de Guatemala.” JAF 31:122.
3851 prints, views, or downloads

6. Zelia Nuttall. 1897. “Ancient Mexican Superstitions.” JAF 10:39.
3807 prints, views, or downloads

7. Laura Watson Benedict. 1913. “Bagobo Myths.” JAF 26:99.
3716 prints, views, or downloads

8. Leah Rachel Yoffie. 1920. “Yiddish Proverbs, Sayings, etc., in St. Louis, Mo.” JAF 33:128.
3687 prints, views, or downloads

9. Andrew Peck. 2020. “A Problem of Amplification: Folklore and Fake News in the Age ofSocial Media.” JAF 133:529.
3685 prints, views, or downloads

10. Adrián Recinos. 1918. “Adivinanzas recogidas en Guatemala.” JAF 31:122.
3290 prints, views, or downloads

11. Michael A. Robidoux. 2002. “Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey.” JAF 115:456.
3253 prints, views, or downloads

12. Zora Neale Hurston. 1931. “Hoodoo in America.” JAF 44:174.3236 prints, views, or downloads

13. E. C. Perrow. 1913. “Songs and Rhymes from the South.” JAF 26:100.
2979 prints, views, or downloads

14. Stanley Brandes. 1998. “The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity.” JAF 111:442.
2933 prints, views, or downloads

15. Fanny D. Bergen, W. M. Beauchamp, and W. W. Newell. 1889. “Current Superstitions. I.Omens of Death.” JAF 2:4.
2736 prints, views, or downloads

16. Eduardo Guadalupe Noguera and Paul Siliceo Pauer. 1918. “Adivinanzas recogidas en México.” JAF 31:122.
2605 prints, views, or downloads

17. Jeana Jorgensen. 2019. “The Most Beautiful of All: A Quantitative Approach to Fairy-Tale Femininity.” JAF 132:523.
2584 prints, views, or downloads

18. “American Indian Names of White Men and Women.” 1899. JAF 12:44.
2579 prints, views, or downloads

19. Cheryl L. Keyes. 2000. “Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance.” JAF 113:449.
2546 prints, views, or downloads

20. W. H. Millington and Berton L. Maxfield. 1906. “Philippine (Visayan) Superstitions.”  JAF 19:74.
2402 prints, views, or downloads