[Buddha-l] FW: Books for Review

[Jo]

I'm hoping that someone from this list will review this book. I can't-not an
east Asia specialist. See the mail below from the Journal of Folklore
Research, jfrr (Indiana UP).

Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang. Translated
by Beata Grant, and Wilt L. Ideama. 2011. Seattle: University of Washington
Press. 

Joanna

 

 

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[mailto:owner-jfrr-l at listserv.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of JFRR
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:55 PM
To: jfrr-l at indiana.edu
Subject: Books for Review

 

Dear JFRR list subscriber,


JFR Reviews has received the following books for review. We invite qualified
reviewers to contact us at
<http://us.mc587.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jfrr@indiana.edu>
jfrr at indiana.edu to request any of these titles for review. Reviewers are
expected to complete their reviews within ten weeks of receipt of the book
and may, of course, keep the copy of the book after the review is complete.
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears 

By Stephen T. Asma. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

 

Island Songs: A Global Repertoire

Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino. 2011. Lanham: Scarecrow Press and The
Children's Literature Association. 

 

Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence

Edited by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush. 2011. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press. 

 

Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

By R. Andrew Chesnut. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England

By Orna Alyagon Darr. 2011. Ashgate Publishing. 

 

Guilty Males and Proud Females: Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival

By Fabrizio M. Ferrari. 2011. Calcutta: Seagull Books.

 

Witches, Whores, and Sorcerors: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran

By S. K. Mendoza Forrest. 2011. Austin: University of Texas Press. 

 

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800

By Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini, with Kris McAbee. 2011. Ashgate
Publishing. 

 

Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to
Guinea-Bissau

By Eric Gable. 2010. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 

 

Readings on Rhetoric and Performance

By Stephen Olbrys Gencarella and Phaedra C. Pezzullo. 2010. State College,
PA: Strata Publishing. 

 

Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang

Translated by Beata Grant, and Wilt L. Ideama. 2011. Seattle: University of
Washington Press. 

 

Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Edited by James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium. 2011. Sage Publications. 

 

Always for the Underdog: Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War (Texas
Folklore Society Extra Book Number 23)

By Keagan LeJeune. 2010. Denton: University of North Texas Press. 

 

Folks Are Talking: Oral Histories From the 1970s [Audio CD]

Performed by Garret Mathews. 2011.

 

People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, Second Edition

By Michael I. Niman. 2011. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

 

Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective
(First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

By Janis B. Nuckolls. 2010. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 

 

Casa Boholana: Vintage Houses of Bohol

By Czarina Saloma and Erik Akpedonu. 2011. Manila: Ateneo de Manila
University Press. 

 

Antipodean Traditions: Australian Folklore in the 21st Century

Edited by Graham Seal and Jennifer Gall. 2011. Perth: Black Swan Press. 

 

Hidden Rituals and Public Performances: Traditions and Belonging among the
Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 19)

By Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Uliashev. 2011. Helsinki: Finnish Literature
Society. 

 

Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their
Traditions, Second Edition

By Martha Sims and Martine Stephens. 2011. Logan: Utah State University
Press. 

 

Haunted Southern Tier

By Elizabeth Tucker. 2011. Charleston: History Press. 

 

Hide, Horn, Fish, and Fowl: Texas Hunting and Fishing Lore

Edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt. 2011. Denton: University of North Texas Press.


 

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early
Modern Britain and Ireland

By Alexandra Walsham. 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press.