The July 2021 issue of Border Lore has been released. BorderLore is a monthly online journal published by the Southwest Folklife Alliance that is dedicated to documenting, sharing, and elevating folklife in the borderlands region (Arizona, New Mexico, southern California, southern Utah,
Recent Releases
University of Massachusetts Press has released “Still They Remember Me”: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1. Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine’s Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a “raconteur among the Indians.” The thirteen stories
The latest issue of Folklorica, the journal of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association, has been released. Folklorica XXIV is a special thematic issue dedicated to emergent vernacular responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in various sites in Eastern Europe. The
In Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, nineteen renowned scholars offer a collection of essays addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories. Taking their cue from the
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth century British, French, and German women authors
Volume 40 of the Children’s Folklore Review is now available to view and download at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/index. The volume is the first issue edited by K. Brandon Barker, who recently assumed the editor position held previously by Brant Ellsworth. Formed in 1977, Children’s
For the past several years the Vermont Folklife Center has been working with partners at the Open Door Clinic, the University of Vermont, and cartoonist Marek Bennett on the El viaje mas caro/Most Costly Journey project–an effort that creates comics drawn in
Dr. Nancy Yan recently talked to Dr. Margaret Magat, author of Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Nationalism, a rich study and deep analysis of one part of Asian American foodways. Balut is a fertilized egg that is boiled and eaten
Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. Briggs. A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look
Brian Schrag’s Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms uses stories and research from Ngiembɔɔn communities of Central and West Cameroon as touchstones for proposing new approaches to arts scholarship and community development. Building on the results of ethnographic research, artistic