Folklore
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends ...
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian
In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. At the outset he notes it was Victor Frankenstein’s ...
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many ...
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. ...
Songs of Earth
Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, ...
Where Misfits Fit
Winner of the 2021 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from Mid-South Sociological Association
All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American ...
What the Children Said
Winner of the 2022 Opie Prize
Jeanne Pitre Soileau vividly presents children’s voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope ...
One Grand Noise
Winner of the 2022 Chicago Folklore Prize
For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world’s most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, ...
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume III
Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as ...
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended ...