In this Issue

Table of Contents

Documenting Living Oral Traditions: China’s Institute of Ethnic Literature as Case Study

Qubumo Bamo, Gejin Chao, John D. Niles
pp. 270-287
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A Comparative Study of Performers of the Manas Epic

Adil Jumaturdu
pp. 288-296
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Constitutional Mythologies and Entangled Cultures in the Tibeto-Mongolian Gesar Epic: The Motif of Gesar’s Celestial Descent

George FitzHerbert
pp. 297-326
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Oral Epics into the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Kyrgyz Epic Manas

Karl Reichl
pp. 326-344
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Crossroads of the Imagination: A Possible Musical Origin for the Character of Jupiter in Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”

John Vukmirovich
pp. 345-348
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Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag ed. by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye (review)

Sara Cleto
pp. 349-350
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The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed by Elaine Eff (review)

Gregory Hansen
pp. 350-352
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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (review)

Jeffrey Mifflin
pp. 352-353
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Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (review)

Brittany Warman
pp. 353-356
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Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber by Kimberly J. Lau (review)

Victoria L. M. Harkavy
pp. 356-357
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Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama, and Storytelling by Vibeke Bordahl (review)

Mu Peng
pp. 357-359
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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner (review)

Todd Richardson
pp. 359-360
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Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society by Timo Kaartinen (review)

Adam Frank
pp. 361-362
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Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca by Chris Goertzen (review)

Jim Griffith
pp. 362-363
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Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century by Ann K. Ferrell (review)

Grover Welch
pp. 363-365
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Staging Strife: Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (review)

Carol Silverman
pp. 365-366
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This Ain’t No Mouse Music!: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records by Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon (review)

Jennifer Joy Jameson
pp. 367-369
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80 by Dwight Lamb, Nate Kemperman, Amber Gaddy, and David Cavins, and: Live in Denmark 2013 [Part Two] by Dwight Lamb, and Jensen & Bugge (review)

Scott Prouty
pp. 370-372
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Got a Little Home to Go To by Cliff Bryan, and: Traditional Music of Texas. Volume 1: Fiddle Recordings from the Texas Folklife Archives by Dan Margolies and Charlie Lockwood (review)

Paul L. Tyler
pp. 372-374
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Living Epics of China and Inner Asia

John D. Niles
pp. 253-269
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Information about Contributors

pp. 375-376
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