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Articles

  1. Introduction to the Special Issue: Living Epics of China and Inner Asia
  2. John D. Niles
  3. pp. 253-269
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  1. Documenting Living Oral Traditions: China’s Institute of Ethnic Literature as Case Study
  2. Qubumo Bamo, Gejin Chao, John D. Niles
  3. pp. 270-287
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  1. A Comparative Study of Performers of the Manas Epic
  2. Adil Jumaturdu
  3. pp. 288-296
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  1. Constitutional Mythologies and Entangled Cultures in the Tibeto-Mongolian Gesar Epic: The Motif of Gesar’s Celestial Descent
  2. George FitzHerbert
  3. pp. 297-326
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  1. Oral Epics into the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Kyrgyz Epic Manas
  2. Karl Reichl
  3. pp. 326-344
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Note

  1. Crossroads of the Imagination: A Possible Musical Origin for the Character of Jupiter in Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”
  2. John Vukmirovich
  3. pp. 345-348
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Book Reviews

  1. Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag ed. by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye (review)
  2. Sara Cleto
  3. pp. 349-350
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  1. The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed by Elaine Eff (review)
  2. Gregory Hansen
  3. pp. 350-352
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  1. Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (review)
  2. Jeffrey Mifflin
  3. pp. 352-353
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  1. Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (review)
  2. Brittany Warman
  3. pp. 353-356
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  1. Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber by Kimberly J. Lau (review)
  2. Victoria L. M. Harkavy
  3. pp. 356-357
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  1. Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama, and Storytelling by Vibeke Bordahl (review)
  2. Mu Peng
  3. pp. 357-359
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  1. Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner (review)
  2. Todd Richardson
  3. pp. 359-360
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  1. Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society by Timo Kaartinen (review)
  2. Adam Frank
  3. pp. 361-362
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  1. Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca by Chris Goertzen (review)
  2. Jim Griffith
  3. pp. 362-363
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  1. Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century by Ann K. Ferrell (review)
  2. Grover Welch
  3. pp. 363-365
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  1. Staging Strife: Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (review)
  2. Carol Silverman
  3. pp. 365-366
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Film Review

  1. This Ain’t No Mouse Music!: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records by Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon (review)
  2. Jennifer Joy Jameson
  3. pp. 367-369
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Sound Reviews

  1. 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)
  2. Scott Prouty
  3. pp. 370-372
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  1. 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)
  2. Paul L. Tyler
  3. pp. 372-374
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  1. Information about Contributors
  3. pp. 375-376
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