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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes9
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube7
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
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North6
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers5
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)5
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives5
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China5
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production5
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas4
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe4
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work3
Myth Theorized3
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China2
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II2
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice2
Information About Contributors2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
Re-fitting the Misfit2
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century2
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies2
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies2
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century2
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
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)1
A Message from the Editor1
Advancing Folkloristics1
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation1
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19801
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)1
Hindsight Beyond 20201
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies1
Cornbread, Earl and Me1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes1
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton1
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)1
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity1
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend1
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab1
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP1
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)1
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival1
Canti Popolari del Piemonte1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales1
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Cloud of Witnesses0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Information About Contributors0
Listen0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Information about Contributors0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Kulu Mele’s Ogun & the People: Celebrating 50 Years (1969–2019)0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
Literary Circles0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
The Legend of the Naked Dead: Apparitions and Proper Burial in Latter-day Saint Folklore0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des Contes0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Self-Portrait: Waking Up with/to Cat Companions0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
Talking Testimonio: Telling History and Memory0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
Information about Contributors0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Daughters of the Dust0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
What We Know and What We Do0
These Words0
Plantation Courtship0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Information about Contributors0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)0
Women, Art, and Hope in Black Lives Matter0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Talking about the Weather: Common Sense, Common Sensing, Commonplaces0
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Information about Contributors0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
The Color Purple0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Response Essay0
Tracing a Black Folklore Practice: Frank D. Banks and the Journal of American Folklore0
Information about Contributors0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
Stigmatized Women's Discourse about Sexual Harassment in Academia0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Anticipatory Heritage0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Film and Video Review0
Information about Contributors0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
Katharine Lee Bates’Ballad Bookand the Pedagogy of the Ballad0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis0
The Pandemic0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
You or Me: Song Lyrics0
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
Information About Contributors0
The Witch in Flight0
I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Accenting Songs in an Afro-Brazilian Festival: Song Structures, Performance Styles, and Ludic Capital in the Bumba-meu-Boi of Maranhão0
Electronic Media Review0
Information About Contributors0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest0
Out of State0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
Dreaming in Motion: Zoom Excerpts from Black Motion Pictures0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Information about Contributors0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Living in the Nexus of Disability and Caregiving: An African American Parental Caregiver's Critical Observations as a Folklorist0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
Information about Contributors0
Introduction0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
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