Books received

Folklore, August, 2004

Bender, Mark. Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition. Champaign, IL: Illinois University Press, 2003. xii 259 pp. $44.95 (hbk). ISBN 0-252-02821-X.

Bottero, Jean, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, with a foreword by Francois Zabbal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 194 pp. $14.00/10.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-226-06716-5.

Bradley Foster, Helen, and Donald Clay Johnson, eds. Wedding Dress Across Cultures. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2003. 256 pp. 50.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk), 16.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1-85973-742-0 (hbk), ISBN 1-85973-747-1 (pbk).

Burton, Anthony. Guide to Britain's Working Past. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. 192 pp. illus. $24.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-393-32552-0.

Chireau, Yvonne P. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2003. xii 222 pp. No Price details available (hbk). ISBN 0-520-20987-7.

Clare Lees, Anthony. The Cult of the Green Bird: The Mythology of the Green Woodpecker. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing, 2002. x 118 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-904244-13-0.

Constantine, Mary-Ann, and Gerald Porter. Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic. Foreword by Barre Toelken. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press, for The British Academy, 2003. xv 261 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-19-726288-0.

Crown, Mike, and Daryl Adair. The Wearing of the Green: A History of St Patrick's Day. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xxix 328 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-415-18004-X.

Davidson, Hilda Ellis, and Anna Chaudhri (eds). A Companion to the Fairy Tale. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2003. vii 294 pp. 50.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0859917843.

Deane, Tony, and Tony Shaw. Folklore of Cornwall. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2003. 192 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). Illus. ISBN 0-7524-2929-9.

Drury, Nevill. Sacred Encounters: Shamanism and Magical Journeys of the Spirit. By Nevill Drury. London: Watkins Publishing, 2003. viii 247 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1-84293-055-9.

Dundes, Alan. Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvi 216 pp. $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-299-11264-0.

Feintuch, Bert. Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x 237 pp. $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-252-07109-3.

Fenster, Thelma, and Daniel Lord Smail, eds. Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. 227 pp. $49.95 (hbk), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-8014-39399-6 (hbk), ISBN 0-8014-8857-5 (pbk).

Fogelman Lange, Patricia. Pueblo Pottery Figurines: The Expression of Cultural Perceptions in Clay. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xi 162 pp. Illus. No price details available (hbk). ISBN 0-8263-2799-0.

Fowle, Frances, and Richard Thomson, eds. Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2003. xiv 75 pp. No price details available. (hbk). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.

Fudge, Erica. Renaissance Beasts: of Animals, Humans, and other Wonderful Creatures. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 2004. vii 246 pp. $39.95 (hbk). 0-252-02880-5.

Gonzenbach, Laura. Beautiful Angiola. The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Translated and Edited by Jack Zipes, illustrations by Joellyn Rock. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. xxxii 364 pp. 20.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-415-96808-9.

Guillermo, Artemio R., ed. Epic Tales of the Philippines: Tribal Lores of Filipinos. Lanham, Maryland, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 2003. xiv 232 pp. 32.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-7618-2491-X.

Harris, Max. Carnival and other Christian Festivals. Folk Theology and Folk Performance. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003. xi 282 pp. 18.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-292-70191-8.

Harvey, Graham, ed. Shamanism: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xv 461 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-415-25330-6.

Higham, N. J. King Arthur: Myth-making and History. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xi 328 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-415-21305-3.

Hirsch, Jerrold. Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii 292 pp. $55.00 (hbk), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-8078-2871-3 (hbk), ISBN 0-80788-5489-1 (pbk).

Hollis, A. C. Masai Myths, Tales and Riddles. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2003. 116 pp. $7.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-486-43199-1.

Howkins, Alun. The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside since 1900. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xii 260 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-415-13885-X.