Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of American Folklore is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes9
Folklore's Gender Problem7
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives6
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs6
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube6
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives5
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers5
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production5
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North5
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China4
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues3
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)3
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica3
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century2
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice2
Re-fitting the Misfit2
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings2
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work2
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China2
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe2
Myth Theorized2
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies2
Information About Contributors2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas2
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP1
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19801
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II1
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community1
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)1
Canti Popolari del Piemonte1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales1
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists1
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend1
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab1
Advancing Folkloristics1
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation1
Cornbread, Earl and Me1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica1
Hindsight Beyond 20201
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited1
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)1
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
The Crosses of Huaquechula, Mexico: A Living Tradition0
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Living in the Nexus of Disability and Caregiving: An African American Parental Caregiver's Critical Observations as a Folklorist0
Literary Circles0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
Information About Contributors0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
You or Me: Song Lyrics0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Information About Contributors0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Contrapunteo 2: Embrace the Messiness0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Response Essay0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
Out of State0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Information about Contributors0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
My Blackness0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
Cloud of Witnesses0
Information about Contributors0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
The Pandemic0
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Information about Contributors0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–19430
Information about Contributors0
Anticipatory Heritage0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Electronic Media Review0
Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest0
Information about Contributors0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
Feminism and Folk Art: Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
The Color Purple0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Dreaming in Motion: Zoom Excerpts from Black Motion Pictures0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
Information about Contributors0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine0
Film and Video Review0
These Words0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
Listen0
What We Know and What We Do0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
Information about Contributors0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Information About Contributors0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Women, Art, and Hope in Black Lives Matter0
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia0
The Witch in Flight0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
Introduction0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Daughters of the Dust0
Information about Contributors0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
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