Resilience Through Writing: A Bibliographic Guide to Indigenous-Authored Publications in the Pacific Northwest before 1960 is an anthropological monograph that documents the earliest writing and publishing projects of Indigenous people in Northwestern North America. Even as many Indigenous men and women worked as
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The Network on Culture is very pleased to publish Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2021) of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies. The issue is now live online, here: https://www.networkonculture.ca/activities/matrix/issues/vol2_iss1. This issue has a special focus on matricultural societies of East Asia, including oral lore
On March 23, 2021, Routledge Press will publish Climate Change Temporalities: Explorations in Popular, Vernacular, and Scientific Discourse, a volume edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen. Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration
Wayne State University Press recently published Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century, an edited volume by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of
Rutgers University Press recently released Rafael Ocasio’s Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico. Ocasio also edited an anthology of folk narratives from Puerto Rico, which is forthcoming. Read below for descriptions of both
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve
McFarland Press recently published Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories, a book by John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech, and Ashley Marshall. As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories
Editedby Nicola Darwood and Alexis Weedon, Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations, is now available. Cinderella’s transformation from a lowly, overlooked servant into a princess who attracts everyone’s gaze has become a powerful trope within many cultures. Inspired by the Cinderella archive of
A new nonprofit e-journal and multi-faceted resource center, Americana Insights, was launched today by Jane Katcher, Americana and American folk art collector, in collaboration with David A. Schorsch, a leading authority on American antiques and folk art. The digital publication is supported by
Trickster Press, the graduate student-run press at Indiana University, has recently reprinted Kenneth S. Goldstein’s A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore. The new edition features a preface by Diane E. Goldstein, Kenneth’s daughter and an esteemed folklorist in her own. Add