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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 138, Number 548, Spring 2025Table of Contents
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View Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad
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View Growing Environmental Communication: Expressive Culture, Civic Ecology, and Slow Activism in Southern West Virginia
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View The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality
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View Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia by H. Byron Ballard (review)
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View The Vital Dead: Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries by Alison Bell (review)
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View As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity by Jennifer Eastman Attebery (review)
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As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity by Jennifer Eastman Attebery (review)
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View Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum, 8 February–17 June 2023 by James Frost (review)
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View In Search of Abundance: Mountains of Cheese, Rivers of Wine, and Other Gastronomic Utopias by Luisa Del Giudice (review)
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View Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943 by Ronald LaMarr Sharps (review)
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View Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail trans. and ed. by Patrick J. Mahoney (review)
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View Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County by William C. Allsbrook, Jr. (review)
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View Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada by Manuel da Costa Fontes (review)
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View Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships ed. by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, and Lindsay DuPré (review)
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View Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene Heron and Marica Honychurch (review)
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View Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor (review)
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View Exhibit Review: Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine. Produced by The Ukrainian Museum by Peter Doroshenko (review)
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| ISSN | 1535-1882 |
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| Print ISSN | 0021-8715 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
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