Vita

NAME: John Holmes McDowell
DATE OF BIRTH: September 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C.

PLACE OF RECENT EMPLOYMENT:
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
800 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
mcdowell@indiana.edu

CURRENT POSITION:
Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
Editor, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

WEBSITES: John Holmes McDowell: https://jmcd.sitehost.iu.edu
Folklore of Student Life: https://f351jmcd.sitehost.iu.edu
Inga Resource Center: https://irc.sitehost.iu.edu/

EDUCATION:
1975 Ph.D. Anthropology (Folklore). University of Texas, Austin.
1969 B.A. Music. Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

GRANTS, PRIZES AND AWARDS:

2021	IU OVPR Grant-in-Aid of Research: Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team
2019	Children's Folklore Section, American Folklore Society: Lifetime Achievement Award.
2016	New Frontiers/New Currents Research Grant: "Performing Diverse Environmentalisms" Indiana University: College Arts and Humanities Institute Conference Grant: "Diverse Environmentalisms."
2015	Indiana University Latino Faculty and Staff Council: Faculty of the Year Award.
2012	Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Travel Grant: "Quichua Ritual Speech."
2009	IU Institute for Advanced Study, New Knowledge Seminars: "Heritage Politics on the Ground: Local Articulations of Global Initiatives."
2006	Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Travel Grant: "INTI RAYMI: Runa Festival of Cleansing and Renewal." Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities: "Pioneer Village and Virtual Outdoor Museum Website."
2005	Indiana University College of Arts and Humanities Institute: Conference Grant. "Acting on Indigenous Rights, Acting out Indigenous Rites: A Forum on Minority Languages and Cultures in Latin America."
2004	Named Fellow of the American Folklore Society.
2001	National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division: "Tales On-Line: An Electronic Database of Folk Narrative."
1997	Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University
1994	John Simon Guggenheim Fellow: "Poetry and Violence on Mexico's Costa Chica."
1988-90	National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretive Research: "Hispanic Folk Poetry in Performance."
1987-88	Fulbright Lectureship in Ghana, West Africa.
1978-79	Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, Colombia.
1979	Chicago Folklore Prize for Children's Riddling, published by IU Press, 1979.

EDITORIAL:

2006--	Editor, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
1990-1995, and 1999-2021	Editor, Special Publications of the Folklore Institute
1986-1992	Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
2004-2006	Co-editor, Journal of Folklore Research

DISSERTATION:

1975	The Speech Play and Verbal Art of Chicano Children: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study. University of Texas, Austin.

MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

2021	Soundlore: Career Celebration: Dr John McDowell with Dr Bill Hansen (December) https://soundcloud.com/soundlore/career-celebration-dr-john-mcdowell-with-dr-william-hansen Soundlore: A Story of DERT (May, with Sue Tuohy and Rebecca Dirksen, hosted by Isaiah Green) https://soundcloud.com/soundlore/a-story-of-dert Soundlore: DERT and the Importance of Performing Environmentalisms (November, with Sue Tuohy and Katey Borland, hosted by Dave McDonald) https://soundcloud.com/soundlore/dert-and-the-importance-of-performing-environmentalisms New Book Network: Performing Environmentalisms (November, with Rebecca Dirksen, hosted by Matthew Brown)
2020	Ministerio de Cultura Colombiana Podcast: "Conectando Narrativas: Folklor en el Hoy." Dirección de Artes: Plataforma Virtual para las Artes. Conduce: María Angélica Rodríguez. https://anchor.fm/folklor-en-el-hoy (episode 2)
2019	UC Berkeley Folklore Podcast: "Interview with Visiting Professor John McDowell" http://folklore.berkeley.edu/podcast (episode 4)
2013	"El Conejo." Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA), Austin, University of Texas.
2009	"Traditional Music and Dance of Mexico's Costa Chica." EVIADA (Ethnographic Video Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive). Indiana University and University of Michigan.
2005	"Folklore of Student Life." A website created in F351, Fall Semester: https://jmcd.sitehost.iu.edu
2004	"Brass Bands of Guerrero." A digital re-mastering, with significant editing, of the 1992 production.
2002	"Sibundoy Verbal Art." Web production for the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas, Austin. Five sample performances in Inga and Kamsá, with audio files and companion transcripts.
2001	"La Pasión de Cristo": Easter Passion Play in El Treinta, Guerrero." Folklore on Video, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, a 14-minute video. (With Patricia Glushko).
2000	"Corridos of the Costa Chica," a 70-minute CD. Included with Poetry and Violence (see published books).
1992	"Brass Bands of Guerrero." Folklore on Video, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, a 30-minute video. (With Patricia Glushko).
1991	"Que Me Troven un Corrido" ("Write Me a Corrido"). One-hour video. Indiana University Television. (With Patricia Glushko).

MUSEUM EXHIBITION:

2001-02

"Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America." At the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University. (With Pravina Shukla).

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

2015	¡Corrido! The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast. University of New Mexico Press.
2008	Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica (Issued as Illinois paperback.) University of Illinois Press.
2000	Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and Folklore and Society Series.
1994	"So Wise Were Our Elders": Mythic Narratives of the Kamsá. University Press of Kentucky.
1989	Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. University Press of Kentucky.
1979	Children's Riddling. Indiana University Press.

Edited Volumes

2021	Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (With Katey Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, and Sue Tuohy)
2017	Animal Tales from the Caribbean, collected by George List, co-edited and introduced with Juan Sebastián Rojas. Special Publications of the Folklore Institute. Indiana University Press.
2013	Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America. Edited by John H. McDowell and Pravina Shukla. Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Bloomington: INARI Press. (IU Scholarworks).
2012	Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Vengan a hablar la lengua inga. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University. (With Francisco Tandioy Jansasoy and Juan Eduardo Wolf). Special Issue Editor. With His Pistol in His Hand for Fifty Years: Folklore's Genealogies and the Intellectual Legacy of Américo Paredes. Journal of American Folklore 125.
2011	Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University. (With Francisco Tandioy Jansasoy and Juan Eduardo Wolf). Proceedings of the First Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Actas del Primer Simposio sobre Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Minority Languages and Cultures Program, Indiana University Bloomington; Association for Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ATLILLA). (With Serafín M. Coronel-Molina).
2001	Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America. Mathers Museum of World Cultures: INARI Press, Bloomington. (With Pravina Shukla).
1996	Stith Thompson's A Folklorist's Progress: Reflections of a Scholar's Life. Publications of the Folklore Institute, v. 5. (With Inta Carpenter and Donald Braid).
1992	Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence. Indiana University Press. (With Robert Dover and Katharine Seibold).
1987	Andean Musics. Andean Studies Occasional Papers, v.3. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University.

Articles and Chapters

2021	"Ecoperformativity: Expressive Culture as Spiritual, Pedagogical, and Activist Resource." In John McDowell et al, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. "Folk. Folklore, Folkloristics: New World Terministic Screens." In Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Christiane Cantauw, Jan Carstensen, Friedemann Schmoll, Elisabeth Timm (Hrsg.), Detmold, September 1969: Die Arbeitstagung der dgv im Rückblick International and comparative perspectives on the worlds and words of Volkskunde. Beiträge zur Volkskultur in Nordwestdeutschland, Waxmann, Munster, Germany. "Folklore and Sociolinguistics." in The Challenge of Folklore to the Humanities, ed. Dan Ben-Amos. In the series Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities. MDPI: Humanities.
2019	"Taita Imbabura: Reverence and Mirth in Mountain Worship." Folklor Edebiyat (Folklore & Literature): Prof. Dr. İhan Başgöz 100th Special Issue, pages 759-769: https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/86625003_14-Taita%20%c4%b0mbabura.pdf
2018	"Collage of Colors: Processing Place through Fantasy Play." Children's Folklore Review 39 (2018): 62-91. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/article/view/25376/31238 "Folklore and Sociolinguistics." Humanities 7, 9: 1-12. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/9/pdf "Transitionality: The Border and Barrier and Bridge." In Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes, edited by Roberto Cantú. Cambridge Press, pages 86-101.
2015	"'Surfing the Tube for Latin American Song: The Blessings (and Curses) of YouTube," Journal of American Folklore 128: 260-272.
2014	Translated: Américo Paredes, "El Cowboy Norteamericano en el Folklore y en la Literatura" ("The North American Cowboy in Folklore and Literature"), Folklore Forum: Translations: http://folkloreforum.net/translations/.
2013	"Return of the First People." In Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America. Edited by John H. McDowell and Pravina Shukla. Mathers Museum of World Cultures. 39 (018): 62-91.Bloomington: INARI Press. (IU Scholarworks).
2012	"The Ballad of Narcomexico," Journal of Folklore Research 49: 249-274. "Conceptualizing an Inga Reader: From Story Spoken to Story Read." In Proceedings of the Symposium for Teaching and Learning the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2011). Notre Dame University, pages 1-12. (http://kellogg.nd.edu/STLILLA/proceedings/McDowell_John.pdf). "Introduction." In With His Pistol in His Hand for Fifty Years: Folklore's Genealogies and the Intellectual Legacy of Américo Paredes. Journal of American Folklore 125: 3-4. Джон Г. макДоуел. Справжнє походження оповідання <<Хуан Осо>> // Сучасна арубіжна етнологія. Антологія. Том 2. - Київ, 2010. - C.394-408. Translation into Ukrainian of "The True Lineage of 'Juan Oso'" // Contemporary Foreign Ethnology. Anthology. - Volume 2, Kyiv, 2010. - pp. 394-408
2011	"Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public." In The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives. Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla, editors. Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, no. 8. Indiana University Press, pages 323-342. "On Committing Kamsá to Writing: Improvisations and Collaborations," Proceedings of the First Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Actas del Primer Simposio sobre Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, pages 10-24. "Introduction: Themes and Issues in the Study of Indigenous Languages: Sharing Our Words and Worlds in Our Own Voices." Proceedings of the First Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Actas del Primer Simposio sobre Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, pages 1-9. (With Serafín M. Coronel-Molina).
2010	"Coaxing the Corrido: Centering Song in Performance," Journal of American Folklore 23:129-149. "The True Lineage of Juan Oso," Journal of Folklore Research 47: 325-349. "Rethinking Folklorization in Ecuador: Multivocality in the Expressive Contact Zone," Western Folklore 69: 181-210.
2008	"The Warren E. Roberts Virtual Museum of Indiana Life," Pioneer America Society Transactions 31: 17-26. (With Trevor Blank.) "Naming Games and Beyond: Referencing in Children's Verbal Play," Children's Folklore Review 30: 35-46. Reprinted, in Encyclopedia of Latino Literature (Greenwood Publishing). "Hispanic Oral Tradition: Form and Content." Originally published in Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States, Houston: Arte Público Press: 1993.
2007	"Paradise Forestalled: Animal Suitors in Sibundoy Myth," Midwestern Folklore 33: 3-36. "Corridos of 9/11: Mexican Ballads as Commemorative Practice." In J. Martin Daughtry and Jonathan Ritter (eds.), Music in the Post-9/11 World. Routledge, Inc., 2007, pp. 225-254.
2006	"Sibundoy." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife, (ed.) William Clements. V 4: North and South America. Greenwood: Westport, CT, pp. 229-235. "Speech Play." In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication. Leila Monaghan and Jane Goodman (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Reprint of 1988 article).
2005	"Chante Luna and the Commemoration of Actual Events," Western Folklore 64: 39-64.
2004	"Performance: Antropología de la Oralidad" ("Performance: The Anthropology of Orality"), in Proceedings from Oral Improvisation in the World: Intercultural Meetings. Donostia, Spain, pp. 157-174. Available at: http://bdb.bertsozale.com/uploads/edukiak/liburutegia/xdz4_ld_000169_09.pdf "Características del Discurso Narrativo en Inga." ("Characteristics of Narrative Discourse in Inga"). With Francisco Tandioy. CILLA I Proceedings: Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, pp. 1-11.
2003	"In the Convivial Glow." Resound: A Quarterly of the Archives of Traditional Music 22: 1-7.
2002	"From Expressive Language to Mythemes: Meaning in Mythic Narratives." In Myth, A New Symposium. William Hansen and Gregory Schrempp (ed.). Indiana University Press, pp. 29-45.
2001	"Return of the First People," in Dancing the Ancestors: Carnival in South America. Mathers Museum of World Cultures: INARI Press, Bloomington, pp. 1-12.
2000	"Collaborative Ethnopoetics: The View from the Sibundoy Valley." In Translating Native American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking, Marta de Gerdes, Kay Sammons, and Joel Sherzer (ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 211-232.
1999	"Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits: Sibundoy Concepts of Cultural Evolution." Revised and reprinted in Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. Margaret Read MacDonald (ed.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 513-521. "Transmission of Children's Folklore." In Children's Folklore: A Sourcebook. Reprinted by Utah State University Press, pp. 49-62. "Play." The New Book of Knowledge. Grolier, pp. 333-4.
1998	"Native American Traditions (South)." In Translating Oral Tradition, John Miles Foley (ed.). New York: Modern Language Association, pp. 162-73. "What is Myth?" Folklore Forum 29: 79-81. "Corrido." Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg (ed). ABC-CLIO, pp. 144-6.
1997	"Corridos." Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture, Michael Warner (ed.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 348-352.
1996	"American Folklore." The New Handbook of Knowledge. Grolier.
1995	"Immanence and Immanent Truth," Oral Tradition 10: 235-62. "Discourse Authority in the Sibundoy Valley," Opción 16: 35-64. "The Transmission of Children's Folklore," in Children's Folklore: A Source Book, Brian Sutton Smith et. al. (ed.). New York: Garland, pp. 49-62.
1994	"Riddle." The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 7, 3578-3580.
1993	"Hispanic Oral Tradition: Form and Content." For the Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States, Houston: Arte Publico Press. (With María Herrera-Sobek and Rodolfo J, Cortina). Francisco Lomelí, editor, Literature and Arts volume, pp. 218-225.
1992	"Folklore as Commemorative Discourse," Journal of American Folklore 105: 403-423. "Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits: Sibundoy Concepts of Culture Evolution," in Robert Dover, Katharine Seibold, and John McDowell (ed.). Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 95-114. "Speech Play" (re-issue). In Richard Bauman (ed.), Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-144.
1990	"The Community-building Mission of Kamsá Ritual Language," Journal of Folklore Research 27: 67-84. Also published in Ellen Basso (ed.), Native Latin American Cultures through Their Discourse, Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, n.s. 1, pp. 67-84. "Construir la comunidad Kamsá por medio del lenguaje ritual," Las Culturas Nativas Latinoamericanas por Medio de su Discurso. Ellen Basso and Joel Sherzer (ed.). Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala. (Translation of "The Community-building Mission of Kamsá Ritual Language.")
1988	"Speech Play," in The International Encyclopedia of Communications, ed. Erik Barnouw, New York: Oxford University Press.
1987	"The Kamsá Musical System," in Andean Musics, R. Dover and J.McDowell (ed.). Andean Studies Occasional Papers, v. 3, Indiana University, pp. 21-36.
1986	"Semiotics in Folkloristics," in The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Thomas Sebeok (ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1985	"The Poetic Rites of Conversation," Journal of Folklore Research 22: 113 132. "Verbal Dueling," in Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Teun A. van Dijk (ed.). London, Academic Press, pp. 203 211. "Halloween Costuming among Young Adults in Bloomington, Indiana: A Local Exotic," Indiana Folklore and Oral History 14: 1 19.
1984	"Introduction: Conversational Genres of Folklore," Folklore Forum 17: 120 125.
1983	"The Semiotic Constitution of Kamsá Ritual Language," Language in Society 12: 23 46. "Children's Folklore," in Handbook of American Folklore, Richard Dorson (ed.). New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 314-322.
1982	"Beyond Iconicity: Ostension in Kamsá Mythic Narrative," Journal of the Folklore Institute, 19: 119 139. "The Anatomy of Frivolity (On Taking Nonsense Seriously)," Semiotica 39: 167 173. "Sociolinguistic Contours in the Verbal Art of Chicano Children," in Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects, Lucia Elias-Olivares and Jon Amaestae (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 333-353. Also appears in Aztlán: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts 13: 165 193.
1981	"Towards a Semiotics of Nicknaming," Journal of American Folklore 94: 1 18. "The Corrido of Greater Mexico as Discourse, Music, and Event," in Roger Abrahams andRichard Bauman (ed.), "And Other Neighborly Names": Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 44-75. "Speech Play," Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 26 28.
1980	"Animal Categories in Chicano Children's Spooky Stories," in Nickolai Burlakoff and Carl Lindahl (ed.), Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Degh. Bloomington: Trickster Press, pp. 169-175. "Hey Diddle Diddle, What's in a Riddle?" Center for Southern Folklore Magazine, 3: 13. "Riddling and Enculturation: A Glance at the Cerebral Child" (re-issue), in Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer (ed.). Language and Speech in American Society: A Compilation of Research Papers in Sociolinguistics. Austin, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
1976	"Riddling and Enculturation: A Glance at the Cerebral Child," Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, no. 36, 1-16.
1975	"La Rebelión Cristera de México: Enfoque Sociológico," Comunidad 52: 232 245.
1974	"Coherency and Delight: Two Canons of Narrative Excellence," Folklore Forum, Bibliographic and Special Series, no. 12: 97 106. "Interrogative Routines in Mexican American Children's Folklore," Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, no. 20, pp. 1-30. "Some Aspects of Verbal Art in Bolivian Quechua," Folklore Annual 6: 68 81.
1973	"Cultural Evolution and the Singing, Dancing Throng," Folklore Annual 4: 1 9. "Performance and the Folkloric Text: a Rhetorical Approach to 'The Christ of the Bible'," Folklore Forum 6: 139 148.
1972	"Differential Response of the Class and Ethnic Components of the Austin Speech Community to Marked Phonological Variables," Anthropological Linguistics 14: 228 239. (With Susan McRae). "The Mexican Corrido: Formula and Theme in a Ballad Tradition," Journal of American Folklore 85: 205 220.

Reviews

2018	Paul V. Kroskrity and Anthony K. Webster, eds. The Legacy of Dell Hymes: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. In Journal of American Folklore 131: 111-114.
2017	Ana María Ochoa, Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press. In Hispanic Review 85, pp. 102-105. Susan Fast and Kip Pegley, eds. Music, Politics, and Violence. 2012. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. Published online in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, November 28.
2016	Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard (eds.), Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present. Utah State University Press, 2013. In Journal of American Folklore 129, pp. 112-115.
2015	Paul M. Worley, Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. Published online in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, August 25.
2014	John Donald Robb, Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest: A Self-Portrait of a People; and Cipriano Frederico Vigil, New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano. Review essay in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, September 10.
2013	Michelle Wibbelsman, Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, January 16. Hugo Zemp, director, "The Polyphony of Ceriana: The Campagnia Sacco" (DVD). In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, January 9.
2012	Sadhana Naithani, The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics. University Press of Mississippi. In Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, pp.119-121.
2011	Bret Gustafson, New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, December 14.
2009	Zoila S. Mendoza, Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, January 12.
2007	Frank Salomon, The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. In Museum Anthropology Weblog: Published online, February 22. Sonia Fritz, Director, and Frances Lausell, Producer. "Carnivals of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico/Trinidad/Martinique. 2004. DVD: Isla Films, San Juan, Puerto Rico. In Journal of American Folklore, pp. 358-9.
2006	Roger Abrahams, Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. In Journal of Folklore Research 43: 80-82. (Also published online, March 9.) Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Hidden Life of Girls. Blackwell Publishing, 2006. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Published online, February 13.
2003	Michael Jackson, The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression, and Intersubjectivity. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002. In Journal of Anthropological Research 59: 567-58.
2001	Peter Wade, Music, Race, and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. In Journal of Folklore Research. Published online.
1997	Margot Beyersdorff and Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Andean Oral Traditions: Discourse and Literature. In Anthropological Linguistics 39: 163-166.
1996	José Limón, Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas. In Journal of Folklore Research* 33: 176-177.*
1995	Américo Paredes, edited by Richard Bauman, Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border. In Western Folklore 54: 245-246. Margot Beyersdorff and Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz (eds.) Andean Oral Traditions: Discourse and Literature. Bonner Amerikanistische Studien 24. Bonn, Germany: Holos, 1994. In Anthropological Linguistics, pp. 163-166.
1993	Elliott Oring, Jokes and their Relations. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992. In American Anthropologist 95: 1059-1060. Julia Meyerson, 'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. In American Ethnologist 20: 437-438.
1992	Regina Harrison, Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. In American Ethnologist 19: 176-177. Mary Weismantel, Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. In American Ethnologist.19: 402-403.
1991	Robert M. Laughlin and Carol Karasik, The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacantan. In Journal of American Folklore 104: 216-217.
1986	Ellen Basso, A Musical View of the Universe: Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. In Journal of Folklore Research 23: 74. Manuel Peña, The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class Music. In Journal of Folklore Research 23: 72-73.
1985	W. J. Pepicello; Thomas A. Green, The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives. In Journal of American Folklore 98: 483-485.
1984	Candace Slater, Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel. In Journal of American Folklore 97: 83-85. Lauri Carlson, Dialogue Games: An Approach to Discourse Analysis. In Anthropological Linguistics 26: 123-124. Susan Niles, South American Indian Narrative: An Annotated Bibliography. In Folklore Forum 17: 99-101. Mary Ellen Brown, Burns and Tradition. In Journal of Folklore Research 21: 88.
1983	Richard Dorson, Man and Beast in American Comic Legend. In Journal of Folklore Research. 20: 91-92.
1978	Michael Heisley (compiler), An Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Folklore from the Southwestern United States. In Folklore Forum 11: 315.
1977	Mary and David Knapp, One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children. In Folklore Forum 10: 38-40.

OBITUARY:

2003	Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001). Journal of American Folklore (116): 483-485.

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