New Year and New Folklore Books!

Happy New Year, everybody! Here are some of the new books coming out this month for your folklore pleasure:

• Tales of the Samurai: Stories of Old Japan - Roald Knutsen.
• God's Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place - James Lochtefeld.
• Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History - John Cort.
• Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality - Daniel Ogden.
• The Idea of Iambos - Andrea Rotstein.
• The Problem of Ritual Efficacy - edited by William Sax, Johannes Quack and Jan Weinhold. Part of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series.
• Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor - Henry D. Spalding.
• Mysteries and Legends of Georgia: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained - Don Rhodes.
• Mysteries and Legends of Nevada: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained - Don Rhodes.
• Oregon Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff - Harriet Baskas.
• Aphrodite - Monica S. Cyrino. Part of the series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.
• Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture - Junichi Isomae. From the series Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest & Construction.
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 14: Folklife - Glenn Hinson & William Ferris (eds.)
• Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China - David Johnson. Harvard East Asian Monographs.
• Power and Marginality in the Abraham Narrative - Hemchand Gossai. Princeton Theological Monograph.