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More Published Book Reviews

I am happy to note the publication of some more reviews by some current and former student colleagues. Teri Klassen and Rhonda Fair both have reviews in the new issue of Museum Anthropology Review. Carrie Hertz has a review in the latest issue of Material Culture. Jodine Perkins has a review out today in JFRR.

Teri’s review is of Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt and Rhonda’s is of Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions. Because MAR is an open access journal, these reviews are available at no cost online. Carrie’s review is of The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry. Material Culture is, to the best of my knowledge, a print-only journal. Find it in your nearest library here on Open WorldCat. Jodine’s review is of Long Gone, a narrative account of American farm life in the 1930s and 1940s. Like all JFRR reviews, hers is available for free online.

Museum Anthropology Review 2(2)

I am happy to announce the publication of Volume 2, Number 2 of Museum Anthropology Review. This issue features eight smart reviews and two fine articles. Please check it out here. Huge thanks go to everyone who has been supporting the effort–readers, reviewers, boosters, publishers, the IU LIbraries, and especially the journal’s generous authors.

Two Reviews

Congratulations to Suzanne Ingalsbe and Teri Klassen for each publishing book reviews this week. Suzanne reviewed Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008) by Jill Nokes with Pat Jasper in JFR Reviews. This review is available open access online here.

Teri reviewed Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection by Linda Eaton (New York: Abrams, 2007) for the July 2008 issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture 6(2):205-207. Textile, published by Berg, is a commercial journal and the review is only available online in a toll access format. ($29.99 in pay per view!) Some libraries may provide electronic access at this point. The means by which the IU Bloomington libraries provide IU folks will electronic access can not yet get us to the latest issue (there is a 6 month delay for electronic access at IUB).

Congratulations to both reviewers. The hassle of getting to Teri’s review and the ease with which we can all read Suzanne’s reveals again the virtues of open access publishing in folklore, ethnomusicology and anthropology. Lets show JFRR some love!