Mask by Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson of Alaska. Jackson has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph courtesy of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.
 

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