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The Journal of American Folklore is the official journal of the American Folklore Society and presents recent scholarship by AFS members and scholars in allied fields. AFS, founded in 1889, is an organization of folklorists with over l, 000 members in the US, Canada, and other countries throughout the world. The journal regularly publishes book, film, and exhibit reviews as well as articles on expressive culture and how groups make meaning through interactive activities.
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Volume 130, Number 516, Spring 2017Table of Contents
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View After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline(American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2015)
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View Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures by Paul M. Worley (review)
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Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures by Paul M. Worley (review)
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View Songs of the Border People: Genre, Reflexivity, and Performance in Karelian Oral Poetry by Lotte Tarkka (review)
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Songs of the Border People: Genre, Reflexivity, and Performance in Karelian Oral Poetry by Lotte Tarkka (review)
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View The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity ed. by Scott B. Spencer (review)
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View UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage ed. by Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman (review)
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View Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma ed. by Trevor J. Blank and Andrea Kitta (review)
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View The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region by Marcie Cohen Ferris (review)
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View Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South by Anderson Blanton (review)
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View Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime by Yoshiko Okuyama, and: From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West by Mayako Murai (review)
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View Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line by Henry Glassie, Clifford R. Murphy, and Douglas Dowling Peach (review)
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| ISSN | 1535-1882 |
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| Print ISSN | 0021-8715 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2017-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
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