March Folklore Books, Part the Third

These books are coming out the last two weeks in March.  Keep your eyes open for them, and if there are any upcoming books you would like me to spotlight, let me know!

• Oral and Written Expressions of African Culture - Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom.  An interdisciplinary anthology with articles about 'vulgar poetry' in South Africa, print media in Nigeria, 'lowbrow' fiction during Apartheid, among others.
• Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe - Susana Pertot, Tom Priestly, Colin H. Williams.  Primary focus is on Slovenian in both Italy and Hungary and on Welsh.
• Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales - Michelle Li.
• Asian American Folktales - Thomas A. Green.  Part of the series 'Stories from the American Mosaic.'
• Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico - Javier A. Galvan.
• Latino American Folktales - Thomas A. Green. Another one from 'Stories from the American Mosaic.'
• They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing - Elizabeth de la Portilla.  The author is herself a curendera-in-training.
• Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative - Linda Tate.  A memoir in the series 'Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.'
• Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil - Larry Crook.
• Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance - Donald J. Cosentino.   "Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture."  Hells, yeah, I want this one!
• Fairy Tales: A New History - Ruth B. Bottigheimer.  From what I gather she argues that the fairytale is a literary genre created for an urban audience and dismisses much of the folkloric influences on the genre.  Should make for an interesting read.
• Whose Culture?:  Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities - ed. by James Cuno.
• Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition (Paperback) - Jeff Opland.  Another one from the 'Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture' series.  I want this one too.  I want anything that says studies in oral culture!
• Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing - Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi (eds).
• Joseph Smith and Herbal Medicine - John Heinerman.
• Rai Mythology: Kiranti Oral Texts - Karen E. Ebert and Martin Gaenzle.
• Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts II: Texts of the Bhuji Valley - Gregory G. Maskarinic.  This and the above title are in the 'Harvard Oriental Series.'
• Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale - Jessica Tiffin.

Gashnarbit, there are a bunch of good books on this week's list!