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JFR offers timely and concise reviews of recent works (including books, museum exhibits, scholarly websites, DVD and CD-ROM productions, and video and film documentaries) relevant to the discipline of folkloristics, delivered directly and free of charge to individuals through an e-mail subscription list, as well as on-line at the Journal of Folklore Research website. Any inquiries regarding this service may be directed to our reviews staff. Please note that all reviews published by JFR are permanently archived on this site.

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Most recent reviews

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses (Elizabeth Tucker)

Carl Wilhelm von Sydow som folklorist (Nils-Arvid Bringéus)

They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)

Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic (Editor: Karl Reichel)

The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (Editor: Simon Bronner)

The Music of The Other: New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age (Laurent Aubert, with a foreword by Anthony Seeger)

Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience (Jennifer Eastman Attebery)

Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Editor: Kate Bernheimer)

The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (Editor: Ulrich Marzolph)

Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America (George E. Lankford)

Den Predikande Räven: Arbete, Skämt och Allvar i en Medeltida Illuminerad Handskrift (Janken Myrdal, Pia Melin and Olle Ferm)

The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese (Haiwang Yuan)

Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (Editor: Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven)

Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music and Popular Culture (Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro)

The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa (Ruth Finnegan)