Your Folklore Festivus Gift Guide

Sorry for the dormancy! Let me welcome myself back! I will start it off with a holiday guide of new folklore books:

• The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth - Wendy Doniger. Columbia Classics in Religion.
• Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada - Sojin Kim. Folk Art and Artists Series. University Press of Mississippi.
• The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales - Haruo Shirane, translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press.
• Hungarian Classical Ballads and Their Folklore - Ninon Leader. Cambridge University Press.
• Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates - Sayyid Hamid Hurriez.
• Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech - Federal Writer's Project; James R. Dow, Susan D. Dow and Roger Welsch, editors. Bison Books.
• Myth, Ritual and the Oral - Jack Goody. Cambridge University Press.
• Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States - Lan Dong. American Literatures Initiative.
• Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice - Ysamur Flores-Pena and Roberta J. Evanchuk. Folk Art and Artists Series. University of Mississippi Press.
• Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece - Lee E. Patterson.
• Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives - Joseph Sciora, ed. Critical Studies in Italian America. 3rd edition. Fordham University Press.
• Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World - Mineke Schipper. Leiden University Press.

See you soon!