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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives9
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs9
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube8
A Reflection of What My Folklore Training Brings to My Work in Refugee and Immigrant Services7
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers7
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica6
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues5
Things Done Changed4
Folklore's Gender Problem4
Folklore Without Borders Remains Our Aim4
The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice4
Folk Song and the Voice: Toward an Ethnography of Singing4
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes4
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas3
Myth Theorized3
Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025)3
Information About Contributors3
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies3
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work3
Folklore and Politics in, and of, General Education Requirements at Universities in the United States3
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice3
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany2
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China2
Algorithmic Storms: Folklore Transmission and Education in the Digital Age2
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century2
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
Information About Contributors2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)2
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes2
Re-fitting the Misfit2
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II2
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation2
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab1
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)1
Bernard L. Herman (1951–2024)1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards1
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
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies1
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19801
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)1
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)1
Vilmos Voigt (1940–2025)1
Advancing Folkloristics1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)1
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands0
Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Centering Oral Histories to Build Communities of Care in Troubling Times0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore Among Physicians0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
Introduction0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Information About Contributors0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines0
Worth W. Long (1936–2025)0
Safety in the Field: A Reflection and Progress Report0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
Erratum0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Introduction: Crisis and Action II0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–19430
Cherokee Earth Dwellers, Anitsalagi Elohi Anehi: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World0
Introduction: Crisis and Action0
Disease, Conspiracy Theory, and Ableism in the Current Political Landscape0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Teaching World Epics0
Haunting and Hilarious Fairy Tales0
Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Information about Contributors0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings0
Information About Contributors0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy0
From the Editors0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Crooked on the Stretcher Board: Ch'ats’ą’ Vizhit Teech'iriikii: Collected Essays on Gwich'in History, Language, and Folk Culture0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media0
Eating at God's Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities0
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics0
Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Analytical and Generic Classification of Persian Folk Poetry0
Information about Contributors0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays0
They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Baghdad Twist0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
The Folklore of Devon0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Information about Contributors0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
The Witch in Flight0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
Loneliness, Totalitarianism, and Folklore0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Maria Carmen Gambliel (1946–2025)0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
Voodoo: An African American Religion0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Information about Contributors0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)0
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
Out of State0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Whitewater Ole: Legends, Labor, Immigrants, Intersections0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County0
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
On Becoming Folklorists in a Political Storm0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
“How Did We Meet?”: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and Its Reflection in Myth0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
What We Know and What We Do0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Information About Contributors0
Information About Contributors0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability0
Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Information About Contributors0
Response Essay0
Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal Art0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine0
Becoming-With: Ecological Folklore Beyond the Hero's Journey0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online0
Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home0
The Pandemic0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction0
Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition0
Published Collections as the Sources of Ballad Tunes Sung by an Enthusiast in Japan0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Information about Contributors0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad0
The Kids Are All Right0
The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays0
Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships0
Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Information About Contributors0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice0
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