Online Illustrated Guide to the American Folklife Center

The above picture is from the Illustrated Guide to the American Folklife Center.   It is from a Cambodian wedding ceremony as documented in Lowell in 1987.

The Illustrated Guide serves as a great introduction to the Folklife Center.   If you have ever had to answer the question about what exactly folklorists study, you would be well served to point the questioner to this site.

Octoberfest of Folklore Books

I am wearing my pumpkin colored sweater, drinking a Pumpkin spiced latte, full of Knockwurst and Munich Gold from this weekend's Octoberfest revelry in New Hampshire.

I am afraid all my updates are only lists of books.   But, you know, lists of books are kinda cool.

• Diana - Fay Glinister.  From the series "Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World."  Routledge.
• When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue: And Other Essays in Historical Anthropology - Hermann Rebel.   Berghahn Books.
• Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology - Arthur W. Frank.  University of Chicago Press.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions - Raphael Patai and Haya Bar-Itzhak, eds.   M. E. Sharpe.
• Media, Myth, and Society - Arthur Asa Berger.  Palgrave Pivot.
• Warrior Ways: Explorations in Modern Military Folklore - Eric A. Eliason and Tad Tuleja, eds.   Utah State University Press.
• Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship - Jo Eldridge Carney.  Palgrave MacMillan.
• Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club - Christopher B. Teuton.  The University of North Carolina Press. 
• The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry - Daniel W. Patterson.  Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and Decorative Arts, The University of North Carolina Press. 
• Passing It On: Folklore of St. Louis - John L. Oldani.  2nd Edition, Revised and Updated, Reedy Press. 
• Where is My Home?: Slovak Immigration to North America (1870-2010) - M. Mark Stolarik.  Peter Lang.
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms - Kay Turner & Pauline Greenhill, eds.  In Fairy Tales, Wayne State University Press.
• Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm - Willem de Blecout.  Manchester University Press.
• South Central Pennsylvania Legends and Lore - David Puglia.  The History Press. 
• The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures - Karl Bell.  Boydell Press.
• Americo Paredes: Culture and Critique - Jose E. Limon.  University of Texas Press.
• Traditional Stories from Binandere in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea - Anita Tago.  Buai Series 3, University of Papua New Guinea Press.