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- The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens - Anthony Kaldellis.
- Culture and Customs of Greece - Artemis Leontis. Part of the series Culture and Customs of Europe.
- Mongolian Folktales - Dashdondog. Part of the World Folklore Series.
- Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections - Ralph P. Locke.
- Persian Tales: Fifty-Eight Traditional & FolkTales from Iran - Donald L. Lorimer & E. O. Lorimer. Classics of Persian Literatue 6, paperback.
- Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland - Phillip Connel & Nigel Leask (eds)
- Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular - Alastiar Minnis. Yes, you should value the vernacular.
- The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume and Music - Barbara Ravelhofer. This is the topic my college girlfriend's mom studied. I did not understand it then, and I probably still don't understand it!
- Sexy Shorts for Summer - Sanger. For some reason this popped up in a search for folklore books. I couldn't resist.
- The Islamic Context of a Thousand and One Nights - Muhsin J. al-Musawi.
- Tales from Old China - Ong Siew Chey.
- African Folklore: An Encyclopedia - Philip M. Peek.
- Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth - Yulia Ustinova.
- Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture - Michael Koven. The title of this book has to include three of my five favorite words. Beer and baseball are the other two.
- Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China - David Johnson. Harvard East Asian Monographs.
- Selected Myths - Plato. Oxford World Classics.
- An Intellectual History of Cannibalism - Catalin Avramescu. Yay, another book about cannibals!
Looks like I only made it halfway through the month before it became time to watch the first pitch of the yankees baseball season! Stay tuned for part two after the game!
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