Western Folklore

Vol. 68, No. 1 —Winter, 2009

Contents

Editor’s Note 6

Articles

The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture 9
Jack Santino

Lonely Ranchers, Solitary Students, and Angry Governors: Personal Vulnerability and Community Conflict in Yaqui Emotion Talk 27
Kirstin C. Erickson

The Birth of Fingerling as a Feminine Projection: Maternal Psychological Mechanisms in the Fingerling Fairy Tale 49
Ravit Raufman

Reviews

William H. Beezley, Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture 73
Reviewed by Sydney Hutchinson

Bess Lomax Hawes, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir. 75
Reviewed by Burt Feintuch

Brian Joseph Gilley, Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country 77
Reviewed by Jason Whitesel

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 78
Reviewed by Willie Smyth

Julie Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination 80
Reviewed by Michele Hartley

Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell eds., Encyclopedia of Appalachia & Handbook of Appalachia 82
Reviewed by Guy Lancaster

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf ed., Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives 84
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tucker

Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, and Lalita Handoo eds., Gender and Story in South India 86
Reviewed by Frank J. Korom

Roger D. Woodard, Indo-European Space: Vedic and Roman Cult 88
Reviewed by Joseph Falaky Nagy

M. Elise Marubbio, Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film 90
Reviewed by Jacqueline L. McGrath

Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell, Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures 91
Reviewed by Luke Powers

Shelly O’Foran, Little Zion: A Church Baptized By Fire 93
Reviewed by John Wolford

Leith Davis, Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725–1874 95
Reviewed by Dianne Dugaw

Samuel S. Hill ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1: Religion 96
Reviewed by Frank de Caro

Richard Pillsbury ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 2: Geography 99
Reviewed by Guy Lancaster

James P. Leary, Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music 101
Reviewed by Richard March

Frank J. Korom, South Asian Folklore: A Handbook 103
Reviewed by Lena L. Reynoso

Frank J. Korom and Paul J. Smutko, Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal 104
Reviewed by John Wolford

Michael Largey, Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism 106
Reviewed by Mickey Weems

Monica McDermott, Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations 107
Reviewed by Elinor Levy

Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes 108
Reviewed by Lucy M. Long

Elizabeth Tucker, Campus Legends: A Handbook 110
Reviewed by Steve Warrick

Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars eds., Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors. 112
Reviewed by Juwen Zhang

Rosemary Radford Ruether, Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History 114
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco

William M. Clements ed., Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife 115
Reviewed by Steve Roud

Barry Lee Pearson, Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers 117
Reviewed by Derek Allen Clements

Nancy C. McEntire, Grey Larsen, and Janne Henshaw eds., The Lotus Dickey Songbook ; John Bealle, Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival 119
Reviewed by Anita Anderson and Paul Jordan-Smith

Simon J. Bronner ed., Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities 120
Reviewed by Joseph P. Goodwin

Mark C. Amodio ed., New Directions in Oral Theory: Essays on Ancient and Medieval Literatures 122
Reviewed by Elissa R. Henken

Bill Mercer, People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory 124
Reviewed by Willie Smyth

Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics 126
Reviewed by Anand Prahlad

George W. S. Aguilar, Sr., When the River Ran Wild!: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation 127
Reviewed by Willie Smyth

Oyekan Owomoyela, Yoruba Proverbs 130
Reviewed by Anand Prahlad

Film review

Mark Morgan, Director, The Human Hambone 133
Reviewed by Irene Chagall