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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
| Editing the Nation’s Memory: Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in 19th-Century Europe (Editor: Dirk Van Hulle and Joep Leerssen)
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| Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter (Kenneth L. Untiedt) |
| Music in Ancient China: An Archaeological and Art Historical Study of Strings, Winds, and Drums during the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods (770 BCE–220 CE) (Ingrid Furniss) |
| On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Jared Farmer) |
| Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns: As Told By Orville Hicks (Editor: Julia Taylor Ebel)
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| Nachantike Keltenrezeption oder Was wir von den Kelten haben (Helmut Birkhan) |
| Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint (Editor: Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas)
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| Legends and Landscape (Editor: Terry Gunnell)
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| Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border (Shorena Kurtsikidze and Vakhtang Chikovani) |
| Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959 (Kristin A. McGee) |
| Le Cannibalisme dans le Conte Merveilleux Grec: Questions d'interprétation et de Typologie (Emmanouela Katrinaki) |
| Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society (Editor: Allan Charles Dawson)
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| "Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric (Wolfgang Mieder) |
| There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture (Domino Renee Perez) |
| Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer (Robert Cochran) |