Vol. 67, No. 1 – Winter, 2008
Articles
The Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture 2006: Is the Pope Still Catholic? Historical Observations on Sarcastic Interrogatives
Charles Clay Doyle
Place, Space, and Disruption: A Response to the Question “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?”
Elaine J. Lawless
“You Know About Needle Boy, Right?”: Variation in Rumors and Legends about Attacks with HIV-Infected Needles
Timothy Corrigan Correll
Review Essays
Reviews
Laura L. Bush, Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts
Reviewed by Kristi A. Young
Camilla Asplund Ingemark, The Genre of Trolls: The Case of a Finland-Swedish Folk Belief Tradition
Reviewed by Christopher Kellogg
Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Timothy H. Evans
Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
Reviewed by Guy Lancaster
Bob Black, Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe; Stephanie P. Ledgin, From Every Stage: Images of America’s Roots Music
Reviewed by Jack Shortlidge
E.N. Anderson, Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture
Reviewed by Michael McKernan
Donald Weber, Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to the Goldbergs
Reviewed by Mikel J. Koven
Sandra K. Dolby, Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them
Reviewed by James Deutsch
Carl Knappett, Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Carol Vickers, Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family’s Quilt Legacy
Reviewed by Laurel Horton
Alan L. Spurgeon, Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
Reviewed by Morgiana P. Halley
Ariel Zeitlin Cooke and Marsha MacDowell, eds., Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory
Reviewed by Jo Farb Hernandez
Barbara Mauldin, ed., Carnaval!
Reviewed by Marcia Gaudet
Dell Hymes, “In Vain I Tried to Tell You”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics; Dell Hymes, Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
Reviewed by Lee Haring
Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick, eds., What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life
Reviewed by Reinhold Hill