February Book Roundup

Interesting folklore titles coming out this month.  As always, I welcome these as gifts or review copies!

• Landscape of Memory: Living Folklore in England - Jerry Bird
• Ag Bun Na Craoiche: Folklore and Folklife from the Foot of the Reek - Caitriona Hastings.  Collection of material gathered by students in the 1930s.
• Indo-European Poetry and Myth - M. L. West.  This has some excellent reviews for the hardcover edition.  This is a paperback reprint.
• Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley.  New translation based on latest advances in Akkadian language studies.
• Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. Teeter - ed. and trans. by Philip S. Lesourd.  Bilingual collection in the Studies in the Anthropology of North America series.
• Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero - Bruce Wathen.  
• Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands - John Gregorson Campbell.  Reprint.
• The Proverbial 'Pied Piper': A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday - edited by Kevin J. McKenna.   Gotta love you some festschrifts!
• Bandit Territories: British Outlaws and Their Traditions - Helen Philips (ed)
• The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature - Edward H. Schafer.
• All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region [Special Edition] - David Whisnant.  25th Anniversary edition of this classic in Appalachian studies.
• Soul of a People: The WPA Writer's Project Uncovers Depression America - David A. Taylor.  The WPA Writer's Project has proven an oh-so-great wealth of American folklore.  Can't wait for President Obama to re-instate a new WPA Writer's Program to uncover the current Depression America.
• Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox and Reflexivity - Kimberley Christine Patton.  
• Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World - Phebe Jensen (ed).  Includes a section on one of my favorite things: Morris Dancing!
• Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Enthnographic Approaches - ed. by Phillip Vannini.  Part of the Series Intersections in Communications and Cultures: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (that was a mouthful).

That was quite a list.  Starting in March I will attempt to update the list weekly, making it less daunting!