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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
| Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook (Editor: Donald Hill)
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| The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century (Samuel Brunk) |
| On Collecting: From Private to Public, Featuring Folk and Tribal Art from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection (Editor: Joyce Ice)
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| Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings (Editor: Susan Redington Bobby)
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| Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (Kathleen Hudson) |
| Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts (Sandra L. Beckett) |
| Hänsel und Gretel: Das Märchen Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Medien und Karikaturen (Wolfgang Mieder) |
| Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns (Sheila Paine) |
| Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden (Jacqueline van Gent) |
| Bandit Territories: British Outlaws and their Traditions (Helen Phillips) |
| World Folklore for Storytellers: Tales of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, and Heroes (Josepha Sherman) |
| Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary (Stephen Calt) |
| They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing (Elizabeth de la Portilla) |
| Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us (Nicholas Evans) |
| Swedish Folklore Studies in Finland 1828–1918 (Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch and Carola Ekrem) |
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