Vol. 67, No. 2/3 – Spring/Summer, 2008
Articles
Special Issue in honor of Michael Owen Jones
Special Guest Editors: Elizabeth T. Adams, Sandra Mizumoto Posey, Pravina Shukla
Introduction
Michael Owen Jones: Folklorist “Extraordinaire”
Robert A. Georges
Man of Constant Inspiration: Essays in Honor of Michael Owen Jones
Elizabeth T. Adams, Sandra Mizumoto Posey, and Pravina Shukla
Articles
Evaluating Saris: Social Tension and Aesthetic Complexity in the Textile of Modern India
Pravina Shukla
Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma, and Creativity
Daniel Wojcik
Re-Envisioning the Visionary: Towards a Behavioral Definition of Initiatory Art
Stephen C. Wehmeyer and Kerry Noonan
Who Owns Culture and Who Decides? Ethics, Film Methodology, and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection
Sharon R. Sherman
All Those Mounds of Shrimp: Las Vegas Buffets Considered
Elizabeth Adams
Complementary, Alternative, and Folk Medicine among Czech Women with Breast Cancer After Socialism
Denise Kozikowski
Visceral Research and Transformation: How Folklore Can Change the World
Sandra Mizumoto Posey
Review Essays
Reviews
Roger D. Abrahams, Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices
Reviewed by Paul Jordan-Smith
Jack Santino, ed., Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death
Reviewed by J. Joseph Edgette
Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman, eds., Pilgrimage and Healing
Reviewed by Jack Santino
Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes
Reviewed by Jeanne E. Whitney
Charles R. Mack, Talking With the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters; Mark Hewitt and Nancy Sweezy, The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Kristin G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas, Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art
Reviewed by Jan Rosenberg
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Reviewed by Steve Siporin
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power; Katherine J. Parkin, Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America
Reviewed by Charles Camp
Alma Hogan Snell, A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicine
Reviewed by Dana Kramer-Rolls
Susan E. Keefe, ed., Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals
Reviewed by Erika Brady
David A. Taylor, Boat Building in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
Reviewed by Susan Charles T. Groth
Beverly Gordon, The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890–1940
Reviewed by Laurel Horton
Thomas S. Henricks, Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression
Reviewed by Jan Rosenberg