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Vol. 67, No. 4 – Fall, 2008

Articles

Musical Tradition and the Crisis of Place: Reform Jewish Songleading, Shabbat Shirah, and the New Dining Hall 321

Judah Cohen



Local Concerns, Foreign Heroes: George Washington in Israel 351

Esther Schely-Newman



Musical Trafficking: Urban Youth and the Narcocorrido-Hardcore Rap Nexus 379


Amanda Maria Morrison



Mirrored Archetypes: The Contrasting Cultural Roles of La Malinche and Pocahontas 397


Kristina Downs

Review Essays
Reviews

Dorothy Noyes, Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco 415

Reviewed by Katherine Borland



Jan Harold Brunvand, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends 417

Reviewed by Paul Jordan-Smith



Carol Burke, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture 421

Reviewed by Richard Allen Burns



John Szwed, Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture 423

Reviewed by Winifred Lambrecht



Patricia Sawin, Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her Songs and Stories 425

Reviewed by Sandra K. Dolby



Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives 428

Reviewed by Ed Cray



William A. Wilson, The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore 431

Reviewed by Barre Toelken and Polly Stewart



Janet Bennion, Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley 433

Reviewed by Catherine Hiebert Kerst and Kristi A. Young



Gillian Bennett, Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease and Death in Contemporary Legend and Veronique Campion-Vincent, Organ Theft Legends 436

Reviewed by James Stacey Taylor



Rogers Brubaker, Ethnicity without Groups 439

Reviewed by Willie Smyth



Renée Ann Cramer, Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment 441

Reviewed by Willie Smyth



Brian Swann, editor. Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of Algonquian Literatures of North America444

Reviewed by Jill Terry Rudy



William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States 447

Reviewed by Justin M. Nolan



Dan Yashinsky, Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century 449

Reviewed by Jonathan Philpot



Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed., Inside the Classroom (and Out): How We Learn through Folklore 451

Reviewed by Timothy H. Evans



Martha C. Sims and Martine Stephens, Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions 453

Reviewed by David Allred



Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner, eds., Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America 456

Reviewed by Mario Montaño



Don Krug and Ann Parker, Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin 458

Reviewed by Matthew Branch



Helen A. Berger, ed., Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America 460
Reviewed by Mary Koegel

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