Journal of American Folklore
Journal of the American Folklore Society
Volume 121 spring 2008 Number 480
Articles
Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth Elliott Oring 127
On the Political Uses of Folklore: Performance and Grassroots Feminist Activism in India Christine Lynn Garlough 167
Electronic Hybridity: The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web Robert Glenn Howard 192
Obituaries
Kelsie B. Harder (1922–2007) Ronald L. Baker 219
Philip J. Thomas (1921–2007) E. David Gregory 220
Sound Review
Returning to and from “Innocence”: Taiwan Aboriginal Recordings Shzr Ee Tan 222
Video Review
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro) Jack Zipes 236
Exhibit Review
Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts Jill Terry Rudy 241
Book Reviews
The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland
(Kelleher) J. Brian Sheehan 243
Casa Frumoasā: The House Beautiful in Rural Romania (Brunvand) Robert Cochran 244
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
(Moore, ed.) and Nothing but the Blues: The Music and
the Musicians (Cohn, ed.) Yves Laberge 245
The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People (MacDougall) and Katahdin: Wigwam’s Tales of the Abenaki Tribe (Spotted Elk) Marshall Joseph Becker 247
Information about Contributors 251