July Folklore Books

A whole bunch of hot new folklore books are coming out this month - so send me some!

• The Golden Bough: J. G. Frazer, His Life and Work and The Making of the Golden Bough - Robert Ackerman and Robert Frazer. Two-volume reprint.
• Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetites in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction - Ronald L. LeBlanc. Part of the Series "Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth Century Russian Studies." Some of my favorite topics covered here: food sex and russian fiction!
• Problems of Ethnomusicology - Constantin Brailoiu.
• Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England - ed. by Gordon McMullan and David Matthews.
• Indiana Ghost Folklore - Tom Baker.
• Irish Folk and Fairy Tales - Gordon Jarvie.
• Argentine Fairy Tales - Ana Schindler.
• Grettir's Saga - trans. by Jesse Byock.
• History, Evolution and the Concept of Culture: Selected Papers of Alexander Lesser - Sidney M. Mintz (ed). Lesser was a student of Franz Boas.
• Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States - Andrew Coe. Jennifer 8. Lee had a great book last year about Chinese food in America, I don't know how this one will compare.
• Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories - Edward Sapir.
• Trickster Jack - New Jack tales by E. Reid Gilbert.
• The Poetic Edda - trans. by Carolyne Larrington.
• Masks and Masking: Faces of Tradition and Belief Worldwide - Gary Edson.
• Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era: Authenticating the Enemies and Allies of Britain's Post-Roman King - Frank D. Reno
• Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings - Susan Reddington Bobby.
• Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750 - 1850: The Indian Atlantic - edited by Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchins.
• Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Loyal Jones. This might be the book of most interest to folklorists released this month! I want this, badly. The first sentence: "To use a mountain saying, Bascom Lamar Lunsford would cross hell on a rotten to rail to get a folk song."
• Folklore of Essex - Sylvia Kent.
• Folklore of Northamptonshire - Peter Hill.
• Lore and Legends of Kerala: Selections from Kottarathil Sankunni's Aithihyamala - trans. by T. C. Narayan.