Music and Dances from Central Nepal (Open Book Publishers) is the first English translation of the works of performer, educator, and writer Subi Shah. The book is freely available to read and download in both PDF and HTML formats.
Recent Releases
The Primitive Within (Oxford University Press) is the first book to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It expounds how anthropologists and folklorists aimed to compare rural cultures in the European hinterland to supposedly primitive societies in the colonial peripheries in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees (Berghahn Books) is a narrative-driven book based in global multi-site research about the arts and cultural dimension of refugee “crises” in discrete geographic and social-political contexts. Open Access content is available for this title.
The forthcoming Fall 2026 JAF: A Global Quarterly includes Amy Skillman’s presidential address from the 2025 AFS Annual Meeting, essays about the symbolic and ecological roles of insects in African oral traditions and folklore, how supernatural folklore shapes perceptions of forested landscapes, and Icelandic witch trials.
The new edition of Neerihiinjìk (Alaska Native Language Center) contains additional photographs, carefully revised translations by Craig Mishler and Kenneth Drizhuu Frank, and an expanded Frank family tree by Crystal Frank Welker. Through an online link, it is also possible to hear the voices of the original storytellers while reading the Gwich’in transcriptions.
The 2026 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) edited by Camille Maria Acosta and Sheila Bock is now available. The theme of this issue is "Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow."
The Only True Folksongs in English (University Press of Mississippi) uncovers how nineteenth-century American scholars including the children of farmers, sail makers, and ministers set out to prove that a young republic could, in fact, have its own folk tradition.
Volume 63, issue 2 of the Journal of Folklore Research (JFR) is now available in print via Indiana University Press and in electronic form on Project MUSE. This special issue focuses on the topic of conspiracy theories.
The History of Cornish Tradition (University of Exeter Press) examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries.
Dissenting Through Dance (University of Michigan Press) examines how femme activists in contemporary Turkey deploy folk dance as a powerful tool of political resistance and collective solidarity. Open Access content is available for this title.