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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes9
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs9
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives7
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube7
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North7
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers6
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production5
A Reflection of What My Folklore Training Brings to My Work in Refugee and Immigrant Services5
Folklore's Gender Problem5
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica4
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe3
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas3
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues3
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China3
Myth Theorized3
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)3
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work3
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies2
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings2
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II2
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)2
Information About Contributors2
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice2
Re-fitting the Misfit2
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community2
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation2
Information About Contributors2
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China2
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century2
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Advancing Folkloristics1
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales1
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
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica1
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab1
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)1
Canti Popolari del Piemonte1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
Bernard L. Herman (1951–2024)1
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)1
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19801
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards1
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies1
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
Fionn Folklore Database0
Information about Contributors0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Out of State0
“How Did We Meet?”: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
Self-Portrait: Waking Up with/to Cat Companions0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Information about Contributors0
Information about Contributors0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Information about Contributors0
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection0
Response Essay0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
The Pandemic0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs0
Anticipatory Heritage0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Haunting and Hilarious Fairy Tales0
Information About Contributors0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales0
Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships0
Information About Contributors0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Information About Contributors0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy0
Erratum0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Information About Contributors0
Information about Contributors0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices0
Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
What We Know and What We Do0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
No, You Can't Just Draw Cats: Drawing and Thinking About Gender-Diverse Human Bodies in Comics-Based Research0
Information about Contributors0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad0
Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online0
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability0
Electronic Media Review0
The Witch in Flight0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–19430
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
Introduction0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction0
rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Film and Video Review0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine0
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Information about Contributors0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)0
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