Books for Review

Western Folklore welcomes all inquiries and is especially pleased to hear from graduate students, junior faculty, public folklorists, and independent scholars. Submission deadlines are generous and negotiable. Reviews follow a standard format, a description and an example of which may be found by clicking the Book Review Guidelines button at the top of the navigation bar to the left.

The list of titles below shows all titles currently available for review. This list is updated in the spring and fall; interim arrivals are merged with the existing list. Titles are removed from the list as they are assigned for review. If your browser saves page images for fast loading, you may find you are looking at an outdated list. Be sure to reload the page image to make sure the book is still available.

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Some titles have affinities of subject or theme that potentially draw them together. Reviewers who wish to cover two or more related titles in a single review may write a combined review.

Send review book requests to the book-review editor by e-mail (lisa.gabbert@usu.edu), by phone at (435) 797-2721, or by surface mail to:

Lisa Gabbert
Book Review Editor, Western Folklore
284 E. Kensington Ave.
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

List of titles as of July 26, 2010

Dow, James R., Roger L. Welsch, and Susan D. Dow, eds. Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech. Collected by the Federal Writers’ Project. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Hinson, Glenn, and William Ferris, eds. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 14: Folklife. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Lastra, Yolanda, Joel Sherzer, and Dina Sherzer. Adoring the Saints: Fiestas in Central Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Lawrence, and Jerrold Hirsch. America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin and American Culture. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

Mitchell, Stephen A. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Montell, Lynwood Williams. Tales of Kentucky Ghosts. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, eds. Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Olson, Ted and Anthony P. Cavender, eds. A Tennessee Folklore Sampler. Lexington: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.

Otero, Solimar. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2010.

Schwitters, Kurt. Lucky Hans and other Merz Fairy Tales. Translated by Jack Zipes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Untiedt, Kenneth L, ed. Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909–2009. Texas Folklore Society, 2009.