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Folklore,  August, 2003  

Adams, Michael C. C. Echoes of War: A Thousand Years of Military History in Popular Culture. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2002. xviii + 277 pp. US$29.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 8131 2240 6.

Arsenault, Georges. Acadian Legends, Folktales, and Songs from Prince Edward Island, trans. Sally Ross. Charlottetown, PEI: Acorn Press, 2002. xiii + 157 pp. CAN$18.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 8948 3802 5.

Bronner, Simon J. Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002. 283 pp. US$19.95 (pbk), US$65.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 8420 2892 7 (pbk), ISBN 0 8420 2891 9 (hbk).

Buckley, Thomas. Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xii + 325 pp. [pounds sterling]13.95 (pbk), [pound sterling]35.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 520 23389 1 (pbk), ISBN 0 520 23358 1 (hbk).

[Colarusso, John.] Nart Sagas from the Caucausus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs, ass., trans, and annot. John Colarusso. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. xxi + 552 pp. US$35.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 691 02647 5.

Crooke, William and Pandit Ram Garib Chaube. Folktales from Northern India, ed. and intro. Sadhana Naithani. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2002. L + 425 pp. [pound sterling]35.00 (hbk). ISBN 1 57607 698 9

Datta, Birendranath. Affinities between Folkloristics and Historiography: Some Theoretical Implications in the Context of Medieval and Modern History of North-East India. Chennai, India: National Folklore Support Centre, 2002. 142 pp. pbk. ISBN 81 901481 17.

Foley, John Miles. How to Read an Oral Poem. Urbana, IL and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xviii + 256 pp. ISBN 0 252 07082 8.

Holtzman, Verena. "Ich beswer dich wurm und wyrmin ...": Formen und typen altdeutscher Zaubersprtiche und Segen. Bern: Peter Lang, 2001. 322 pp. [pounds sterling]34.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 906758 65 6.

Hopkin, David M. Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2003. xiii + 394 pp. [pounds sterling] 45.00 (hbk). ISBN 086193 2587.

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales, ed. and intro. Donald Hasse. (Includes complete orig. illus, by John D. Batten.) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2002. xxxvii + 367 pp. hbk. ISBN 1 57607 426 9.

Kemper, Robert V. and Anya Peterson Royce, ed. Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002. xxxviii + 353 pp.. US$29.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 7591 0194 9.

Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. xviii + 326 pp. pbk. ISBN 0 520 20966 4.

Lange, Patricia Fogelman. Pueblo Pottery Figurines: The Expression of Cultural Perceptions in Clay. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xi + 162 pp. ISBN 0 8263 2799 0.

Lomeli, Francisco, Victor A. Sorell and Genaro Padilla, ed. Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xi + 296 pp. hbk. ISBN 1 800 249 7737.

Maspero, Gaston. Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt, ed. and intro. Hasan El-Shamy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2002. xxxvii + 367 pp. hbk. ISBN 1 57607 639 3.

Meider, Wolfgang. International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography, Supplement iii (1990-2000). New York: Peter Lang, 2001. ix + 457 pp. [pounds sterling]46.00 (hbk). ISBN 08204 5707 8.

Muthukumaraswamy, M. D., ed. Voicing Folklore: Careers, Concerns and Issues: A Collection of Interviews. Chennai, India: National Folklore Support Centre, 2002. 257 pp. ISBN 81 901481 25.

Orenstein, Catherine. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xiii + 289 pp. US$25.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 465 04125 6.

Pieper, Jim. Guatemala's Folk Saints: Maximon/San Simon, Rey Pascual, Judas, Lucifer, and Others. Los Angeles, CA: Jim Pieper and Associates, 2002. 244 pp. Illus. ISBN 08263 2996 9 (pbk), ISBN 08263 2995 0 (hbk).

Ryan, J. S., ed. Folklore Studies: Past, Present and Future? Papers from the International Conference Folklore 150, celebrating 150 years of Folklore Studies, hosted by the Institute for Folklore Studies in Britain and Canada, Sheffield, 1996. [Lore and Language 15, 1-2 (1997).] Sheffield: National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, 1997. 218 pp. [pounds sterling]50.00. ISBN 0307 7144.

Sandberg, Mark B. Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums and Modernity. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. xivi + 330 pp. [pounds sterling]17.95 (pbk), [pounds sterling]37.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 691 05074 0 (pbk), ISBN 0 691 05073 2 (hbk).

Schindler, Norbert. Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany, trans. Pamela Selwyn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 311 pp. [pounds sterling]55.00 (hbk). ISBN 0521 650100.

Shuldham-Shaw, Patrick, Emily B. Lyle and Katherine Campbell, ed. The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol. 8, Songs 1516-1933. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2002. xxxix + 756 pp. ISBN 1 84183 0127.