In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Elaine J. Lawless
pp. 3-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0072
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Articles

Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective

Giovanna Del Negro, Harris M. Berger
pp. 5-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0054
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Lament Ritual Transformed into Literature: Positing Women's Prayer as Cornerstone in Western Classical Literature

Batya Weinbaum
pp. 20-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0081
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Memories of Time Past: Fieldwork among the Sephardim

Rosemary Levy Zumwalt, Isaac Jack Levy
pp. 40-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0084
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Dialogues

Folklore's Pathetic Fallacy

Robert Cantwell
pp. 56-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0052
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Note

Folklore and Politics in Turkey, Bawdy Jokes, and Linda Degh

Ilhan Basgoz
pp. 68-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0048
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Exhibit Reviews

Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience (review)

Frank J. Korom
pp. 70-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0068
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Gatekeeping "the Subaltern"? A Response to Frank Korom's Review of the Exhibition Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience

Leela Prasad
pp. 73-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0076
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Florida Folklife, Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities (review)

Laurie Kay Sommers
pp. 75-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0078
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On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton (review)

De Caro, F. A
pp. 76-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0053
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Talavera Poblana: Four Centuries of a Mexican Ceramic Tradition (review)

Sophia Vackimes
pp. 78-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0080
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A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories (review)

Janice Morrill
pp. 80-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0075
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Sound Review

Down Home Dairyland (review)

Anna Kearney Guigne
pp. 83-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0059
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Book Reviews

In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies (review)

Konrad Kostlin, James R. Dow
pp. 86-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0070
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Mother's Table Father's Chair: Cultural Narratives of Basque American Women (review)

Michael Hoberman
pp. 87-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0061
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Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China (review)

Mark Bender
pp. 90-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0049
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Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature (review)

Thomas E. Barden
pp. 91-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0047
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Wisconsin Folklore (review)

Michael Hoberman
pp. 93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0062
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Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America (review)

Deanna M. Kingston
pp. 95-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0067
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The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives (review)

Janet Crofton Gilmore
pp. 96-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0058
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The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress, and: Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (review)

Frank J. Korom
pp. 98-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0069
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The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore 1916-1954 (review)

Shannon Thornton-Walsh
pp. 101-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0079
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Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America (review)

Moira Smith
pp. 103-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0077
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Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture (review)

Paul W. Hanson
pp. 105-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0060
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Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (review)

Audrey Elisa Kerr
pp. 106-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0066
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Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases, and Expressions, Their Origin and Meaning (review)

Jeffrey L. Kallen
pp. 107-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0065
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Ethnologia Balkanica (review)

James R. Dow
pp. 109-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0055
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Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity, and: Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and Dead in Ancient Greece (review)

Adrienne Mayor
pp. 110-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0074
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Heavens Unearthed in Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales (review)

De Vos, Gail, 1949-
pp. 112-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0057
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The Emerald Lizard: Fifteen Latin American Tales to Tell/ La lagartija esmeralda: Quince cuentos tradicionales Latinoamericanos (review)

Holly G. Willett
pp. 114-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0082
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Cuentos de Cuanto Hay: Tales from Spanish New Mexico (review)

Enrique R. Lamadrid
pp. 115-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0071
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The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd (review)

James I. Deutsch
pp. 117-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0056
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Europaischer Volkerspiegel: Imagologisch-ethnographische Studien zu den Volkertafeln des fruhen 18. Jahrhunderts, and: Europaer: Ein imagologischer Essay (review)

Regina Bendix
pp. 118-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0050
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The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China (review)

Li Yu
pp. 119-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0083
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"A Good-Natured Riot": The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry (review)

Morris S. Levy
pp. 121-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0073
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Theorizing about Myth (review)

Robert Glenn Howard
pp. 122-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0064
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Berg, Kultur, Modeme: Volkskundliches aus den Alpen (review)

Regina Bendix
pp. 123-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0051
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (review)

Cara Hoglund
pp. 125-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2001.0063
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