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Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 01, 2026 |
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Constance Bailey et al. "Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Francis Young, "Fairies: A History" (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Paul Robichaud, "Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Priyanka Kumar, "Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit" (Island Press, 2025)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Jessica Campbell, "The Brontës and the Fairy Tale" (Ohio UP, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw" (Birlinn, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight" (Luath, 2025)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, "The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New Tellings of Half-forgotten Stories from England's 39 Historic Counties" (The History Press, 2025)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Spike Bucklow, "The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness" (Reaktion, 2010)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Kirstie Macleod, "The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch" (Quickthorn, 2025)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, "Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests" (West Virginia UP, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
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James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Nicholas Jubber, "Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination" (Scribe, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Veronica Strang, "Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis" (Reaktion, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Greg Eghigian, "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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David Zeitlyn, "Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers" (Routledge, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Fabio Rambelli, "Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Aaron Sherraden, "Śambūka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaṇa Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024)
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 30, 2024 |
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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Suzanne Oakdale, "Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins, "Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore Studies and Publishing Fairy Tales
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Sarah L. Hall, "Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Charles L. Briggs, "Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge" (Utah State UP, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Greg Bailey, "The Vinayaka Mahatmya" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Catherine Bateson, "Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Norm Cohen et al., "An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century" (A-R Editions, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Eugenia Roussou, "Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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On "Grimms' Fairytales"
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Levi S. Gibbs, "Song King: Connecting People, Places and Past in Contemporary China" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Caleb Simmons, "Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad" (SUNY Press, 2022)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Raj Balkaran, "The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Mythology That Inspired 50 Yoga Postures" (Leaping Hare, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Liora Sarfati, "Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, "Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Linda LeGarde Grover, "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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John Fenn and Lisa Gilman, "Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Kevin J. Wetmore, "Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Ziying You, "Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu, trans., "The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Takashi Saitō, "Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan" (Chisokudo, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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John B. Kachuba, "Shapeshifters: A History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich, "Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch" (Stone Bridge, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Cyrus R. K. Patell, "Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Wendy Doniger, "Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Tom Mould, "Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Sharon L. Coggan, "Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Emily Ng, "A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Brian Collins on Indian Mythology
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Chitgopekar Nilima, "The Reluctant Family Man: Shiva in Everyday Life" (Penguin, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Tae-Yeoun Keum, "Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Martin Shaw, "Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Margaret Magat, "Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Robert L. Stone, "Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community" (U of Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Rachelle Hope Saltzman, "Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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D. T. Lawrence and E. J. Lawless, "When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Michael Slouber, "A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities"
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP Colorado, 2017)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Kathryn Hume, "The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture" (Routledge, 2018)
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May 26, 2020 |
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Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness" (Cornell UP, 2016)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Kevin McGrath, "Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata" (Anthem Press, 2019)
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May 11, 2020 |
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Martin Shaw, "Courting the Wild Twin" (Chelsea Green, 2020)
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May 05, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, "Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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S. Ingram, W. G. Mullins, and T. Richardson, "Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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M. D. Foster and J. A. Tolbert, "The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World" (Utah State UP, 2015)
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (U California Press, 2018)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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May 07, 2019 |
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Susan Lepselter, "The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, and UFOs in the American Uncanny" (U Michigan Press, 2016)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir" (U Alaska Press, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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David J. Puglia, "Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore 'Hon': The Folk in the City" (Lexington Books, 2018)
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Ben Gatling, "Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Patrick B. Mullen, "Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Lee Bidgood, “Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Kate Parker Horigan, “Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Bill Ivey, “Rebuilding an Enlightened World: Folklorizing America” (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson, “Quilts and Health” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Ann K. Ferrell, “Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century” (U Press of Kentucky, 2013)
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May 30, 2018 |
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Christina Maags and Marina Svensson, “Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations, and Contestations” (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
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May 25, 2018 |
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Erik Mueggler, “Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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May 21, 2018 |
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Joseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018)
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May 08, 2018 |
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Ruth von Bernuth, “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Jo Farb Hernandez, “Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments” (Raw Vision, 2013)
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Dorothy Noyes, “Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Jean R. Freedman, “Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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C. Grant and H. Schippers, “Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Claire Schmidt, “If You Don’t Laugh, You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Ray Cashman, “Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border” (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Franz Rickaby, et al., “Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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David Hopkin, “Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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Jason Josephson-Storm, “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences” (U. Chicago, 2017)
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Luisa Del Giudice, ed. “On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose” (U. Utah Press, 2017)
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Michael Youngblood, “Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization” (South Asian Studies Press, 2016)
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, “The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2013)
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Peter Gottschalk, “Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Rebecca Williams, “Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views” (Routledge, 2013)
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Feb 03, 2014 |
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Kristin Andrews, “Do Apes Read Minds?: Toward a New Folk Psychology” (MIT Press, 2012)
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Sep 15, 2012 |