Folklore

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Articles in August 2004 issue of Folklore

• Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland
  by W.F.H. Nicolaisen
• Domestic Life in Wales
  by Tecwyn Vaughan Jones
• Editorial note
  by David Hopkin
• The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art
  by Gillian Bennett
• History and folklore: a historiographical survey
  by Peter Burke
• Explore Folklore
  by W.F.H. Nicolaisen
• "Folklore" and "popular religion" in Britain during the Middle Ages
  by Carl Watkins
• Masterworks. The Arts and Crafts of Traditional Buildings in Northern Europe
  by John Dean
• Was there a "popular medicine" in early modern Europe? [1]
  by David Gentilcore
• Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller: Scotland in the Early Nineteenth Century
  by Sandy Hobbs
• Perchta the belly-slitter and her kin: a view of some traditional threatening figures, threats and punishments
  by John B. Smith
• Input and Output: the Process of Fieldwork, Archiving and Research in Folklore
  by George Monger
• "The Gudeman of Ballangeich": rambles in the afterlife of James V
  by David Stevenson
• Bodies of Vital Matter: Notions of Life Force and Transcendence in Traditional Southern Italy
  by Caroline Oates
• Hero Myths: a Reader
  by Steven F. Walker
• Who were "The Men of the West"? Folk historiographies and the reconstruction of Democratic histories
  by Guy Beiner
• The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe
  by Eva Pocs
• Approaching a folklore archive: the Irish Folklore Commission and the memory of the Great Famine
  by Niall O. Ciosain
• Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures
  by J.V. Powell
• Books received