Apr 18
We are very pleased that the next issue of Museum Anthropology Review (volume 2, number 1) has just been published. Find it here. The issue contains some fine reviews as well as two peer-reviewed articles. These articles are the first peer-reviewed works to appear in the journal. Find more information on the new issue here.
I am happy to have recently accepted an invitation to join the editorial board for Cultural Analysis, an excellent open access journal whose virtues I have celebrated on several occasions (such as here, here, and here). As its editors describe it:
Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses. Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.
Best wishes to the journal and to everyone involved in its work. Keep its free, easy to access offerings in mind in your teaching and research and consider sending them your most complelling manuscripts.
Congratulations to Carrie Hertz on the publication of a fine review of The Language of Fashion, a posthumous collection of works by Roland Barthes. Carrie’s review has appeared in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Find it here.
News from the editors of Folklore Forum:
Folklore Forum special issue Folklore of East Asia, 38:1 (2008) is Now Available Online
Folklore Forum is pleased to announce that we have both a new website, www.folkloreforum.net, and a new issue with which to christen it—Folklore of East Asia.
Folklore of East Asia is a tribute to Korean scholar Roger L. Janelli, who retired from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2007 after 32 years of distinguished scholarship. The issue includes four new articles from up and coming scholars that reflect well the cross-disciplinary interests and contributions of Janelli, as well as a farewell interview with Janelli himself.
Please visit our new website and join us in honoring the work of Roger L. Janelli.
Don’t forget—Folklore Forum can now be found at www.folkloreforum.net.
Sincerely,
The 47 Editors
About Folklore Forum
Folklore Forum is a space for the free exchange of ideas on the cutting edge of folklore, folklife and ethnomusicology, a space where up-and-coming scholars can interrogate existing paradigms and cultivate a rich intellectual landscape with a multi-disciplinary perspective. Folklore Forum is managed along with Trickster Press, a not-for-profit folklore publishing house, through Folklore and Ethnomusicology Publications.
I am very pleased to announce the official launch of Museum Anthropology Review as a part of IUScholarWorks Journals. In its new home with its new publisher–the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–MAR will be using Open Journal Systems software, the leading software tool for the complete publication of open access scholarly journals. Read all about it on the MAR WordPress site and find the press release at IU Media Relations here. See the journal itself here. Please consider registering with the journal. Its free, it brings benefits to you, and it helps us demonstrate that the journal has a large and growing user base.
Feb 9
Congratulations to Flory Gingging on the publication of her paper “”I Lost My Head in Borneo”: Tourism and the Refashioning of the Headhunting Narrative in Sabah, Malaysia.”
as the lead article in the new issue of Cultural Analysis (volume 6, 2007). It is a major paper made even more interesting in publication by the detailed commentaries provided by two very prominent scholars in the field–Beth Conklin and Cristina Bacchilega. Flory’s paper began as an fine essay in the Contesting Culture as Property seminar I taught in 2004. Congratulations to Flory and to the excellent folks who are working to build and sustain a major open access journal for folklore and anthropology.
Congratulations to Xiaohong Chen on the appearance of her review of the book The Flood Myths of Early China by Mark Lewis in JFRR. Find Xiaohong’s review online here.
Shreds and Patches 