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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 114, Number 451, Winter 2001Table of Contents
Articles
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View Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective
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View Lament Ritual Transformed into Literature: Positing Women's Prayer as Cornerstone in Western Classical Literature
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Dialogues
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Exhibit Reviews
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View Gatekeeping "the Subaltern"? A Response to Frank Korom's Review of the Exhibition Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience
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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
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View A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories (review)
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Sound Review
Book Reviews
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View The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress, and: Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (review)
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View Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases, and Expressions, Their Origin and Meaning (review)
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View Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity, and: Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and Dead in Ancient Greece (review)
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View The Emerald Lizard: Fifteen Latin American Tales to Tell/ La lagartija esmeralda: Quince cuentos tradicionales Latinoamericanos (review)
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View Europaischer Volkerspiegel: Imagologisch-ethnographische Studien zu den Volkertafeln des fruhen 18. Jahrhunderts, and: Europaer: Ein imagologischer Essay (review)
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| ISSN | 1535-1882 |
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| Print ISSN | 0021-8715 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 the American Folklore Society.




