Folklore Books for the New Year!

Happy 2011 - it's about that time to preview the books that are arriving in the first month of the new year. As always, there are one or two books that really excite me - for such a small discipline, at least there is always something new to keep up with.

• Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture - Mikel J. Koven. Paperback.
• Far North Tales: Stories from the Peoples of the Arctic Circle - Bonnie Marshall & Kira Van Deusen. World Folklore Series.
• Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 - edited by Ronald Cohen. American Made Music Series.
• Jerusalem: Arab Social Life, Traditions and Everyday Pleasures - Subhi S. Gosheh. Paperback.
• Going to the Well for Water: The Seamus Innis Field Diary 1942-1946 - edited by Rionach Ui Ogain.
• Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories - Romila Thapar.
• Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic and Might - Christopher R. Fee. Praeger Series on the Middle Ages.
• Explorations into Arab Folk Literature - Pierre Cachia.
• The Uncommon Sense of the Immotal Mullah Nasrudin: Stories, Jests, and Donkey Tales of the Beloved Persian Folk Hero - Ron J. Suresha.
• Myths of the Opossum: Pathways of Mesoamerican Mythology - Alfredo Lopex Austin.