Most Recent Articles from Western Folklore

• Editor's Note 

  Words on a page are small thanks for years of service guiding Western Folklore. Words are, however, the primary currency of researchers in folklore...

  01/01/09 by Howard, Robert Glenn · More from publication

• Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture, The 

  ABSTRACT In this article I examine emergent acts that can be identified as forms of mumming or related to ritual house assaults and rough music. I...

  01/01/09 by Santino, Jack · More from publication

• Lonely Ranchers, Solitary Students, and Angry Governors: Personal Vulnerability and Community Conflict in Yaqui Emotion Talk 

  ABSTRACT This article explores emotion discourses in a northern Mexican community. For Yaqui Indians, extreme emotional states are considered...

  01/01/09 by Erickson, Kirstin C · More from publication

• Birth of Fingerling as a Feminine Projection: Maternal Psychological Mechanisms in the Fingerling Fairy Tale, The 

  ABSTRACT Tale Type AT 700, named "Tom Thumb," is presented as an expression of maternal psychological mechanisms and of experiences that relate to...

  01/01/09 by Raufman, Ravit · More from publication

• Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture 

  Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture. By William H. Beezley. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 206,...

  01/01/09 by Hutchinson, Sydney · More from publication

• Sing It Pretty: A Memoir 

  Sing It Pretty: A Memoir. By Bess Lomax Hawes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 182, photographs, chronology, index. $65.00 cloth,...

  01/01/09 by Feintuch, Burt · More from publication

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