OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives	9
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs	9
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube	8
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North	8
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers	7
Folklore's Gender Problem	6
A Reflection of What My Folklore Training Brings to My Work in Refugee and Immigrant Services	5
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China	5
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production	5
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica	4
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes	4
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues	4
Myth Theorized	3
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe	3
Information About Contributors	3
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work	3
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies	3
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)	3
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas	3
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice	3
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes	2
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–1980	2
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II	2
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century	2
Information About Contributors	2

Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation	2
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany	2
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)	2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon	2
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China	2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm	2
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited	2
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab	2
Re-fitting the Misfit	2
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community	2
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings	2
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)	1
Bernard L. Herman (1951–2024)	1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)	1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)	1
Canti Popolari del Piemonte	1
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)	1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica	1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines	1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives	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 Cartoonists	1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales	1
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity	1
Advancing Folkloristics	1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake	1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards	1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)	1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)	1
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies	1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales	1
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend	0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends	0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero	0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”	0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships	0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)	0
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books	0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS	0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943	0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy	0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales	0
Information about Contributors	0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution	0
The Witch in Flight	0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton	0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival	0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo	0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community	0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State	0
What We Know and What We Do	0

Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse	0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America	0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen	0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival	0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music	0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)	0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)	0
Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs	0
They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle	0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times	0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them	0
Film and Video Review	0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good	0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord	0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines	0
Information About Contributors	0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)	0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction	0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)	0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)	0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile	0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research	0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics	0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba	0
Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist	0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017	0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend	0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer	0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation	0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies	0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis	0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim	0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends	0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs	0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice	0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors	0
Information about Contributors	0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts	0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)	0
Information about Contributors	0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley	0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought	0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)	0
Introduction	0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery	0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad	0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers	0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales	0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada	0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability	0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes	0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures	0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad	0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances	0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary	0
Information about Contributors	0
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities	0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women	0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization	0
Information about Contributors	0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital	0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest	0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)	0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project	0
Information About Contributors	0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora	0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception	0
“How Did We Meet?”: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal	0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–27	0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith	0
Information about Contributors	0
Erratum	0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts	0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family	0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy	0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between	0
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics	0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry	0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics	0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)	0

Weaving Has a Heartbeat	0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”	0
Information About Contributors	0
Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online	0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media	0
Information about Contributors	0
Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human	0
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection	0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities	0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic	0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age	0
Response Essay	0
Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories	0
The Pandemic	0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni	0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality	0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States	0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs	0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism	0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III	0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)	0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)	0
Teaching Fairy Tales	0
Electronic Media Review	0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts	0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures	0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon	0
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays	0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)	0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon	0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen	0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s	0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair	0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County	0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia	0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)	0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales	0
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice	0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma	0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example	0
Information About Contributors	0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia	0
No, You Can't Just Draw Cats: Drawing and Thinking About Gender-Diverse Human Bodies in Comics-Based Research	0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents	0
Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction	0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora	0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation	0
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage	0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts	0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival	0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)	0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana	0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown	0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings	0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling	0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction	0
rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation	0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction	0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana	0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling	0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)	0
Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability	0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine	0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare	0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives	0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme	0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations	0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism	0
Fionn Folklore Database	0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine	0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture	0
Anticipatory Heritage	0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop	0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–1950	0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices	0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border	0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier	0
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans	0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives	0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting	0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction	0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles	0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)	0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano	0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability	0
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South	0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)	0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe	0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)	0
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands	0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World	0
Haunting and Hilarious Fairy Tales	0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage	0