Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes4
Myth Theorized4
Folklore's Gender Problem4
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas4
The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice4
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work4
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice3
Information About Contributors3
Information About Contributors3
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century3
Re-fitting the Misfit3
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies3
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China3
Algorithmic Storms: Folklore Transmission and Education in the Digital Age3
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)2
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes2
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19802
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica2
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II2
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
Advancing Folkloristics2
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited2
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab2
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)2
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)1
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales1
Bernard L. Herman (1951–2024)1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
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
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities1
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies1
No, You Can't Just Draw Cats: Drawing and Thinking About Gender-Diverse Human Bodies in Comics-Based Research1
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)1
What We Know and What We Do0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Erratum0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Becoming-With: Ecological Folklore Beyond the Hero's Journey0
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays0
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Response Essay0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
Crooked on the Stretcher Board: Ch'ats’ą’ Vizhit Teech'iriikii: Collected Essays on Gwich'in History, Language, and Folk Culture0
From the Editors0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
“How Did We Meet?”: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Information About Contributors0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–19430
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
Anticipatory Heritage0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices0
Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Teaching World Epics0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
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Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales0
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and Its Reflection in Myth0
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What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Whitewater Ole: Legends, Labor, Immigrants, Intersections0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Do the Work0
Information about Contributors0
The Vital Dead: Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List0
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Out of State0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Centering Oral Histories to Build Communities of Care in Troubling Times0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Loneliness, Totalitarianism, and Folklore0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
Information about Contributors0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Information About Contributors0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Eating at God's Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities0
Information About Contributors0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice0
Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada0
Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity0
Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Haunting and Hilarious Fairy Tales0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
The Pandemic0
On Becoming Folklorists in a Political Storm0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
Introduction: Crisis and Action0
Introduction0
Dancing with Life: Recontextualizing Mexican Masks0
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
The Witch in Flight0
Cherokee Earth Dwellers, Anitsalagi Elohi Anehi: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
Information about Contributors0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Information about Contributors0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Stigmatized Women's Discourse about Sexual Harassment in Academia0
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