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- Western Folklore
- Western Folklore is an academic journal devoted to the description and analysis of regional, national and international folklore and custom.
Most Recent Articles from Western Folklore 
Situating the Local by Inventing the Global: Community Festival and Social Change
Every year during its Winter Carnival, the village of McCall, located in the mountainous region of west central Idaho, transforms itself into an...
7/1/07 by Gabbert, Lisa · More from publicationPortable Places: Serial Collaboration and the Creation of a New Sense of Place
In 1977, cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan defined place as "a special kind of object." He called place a "concretion of value, though not a valued...
7/1/07 by McNeill, Lynne · More from publicationSpace, Place, Emergence
The idea for this special issue emerged during a conversation at a meeting of the Western States Folklore Society. Space and place had taken such a...
7/1/07 by Gabbert, Lisa Jordan-Smith, Lisa Jordan-Smith · More from publicationBoma and the Peripatetic Ruler: Mapping Colonial Rule in German East Africa, 1889-1903, The
Historians of European colonialism in Africa tend to neglect large areas of the colonial state's territory, often focusing on a history of colonial...
7/1/07 by Pesek, Michael · More from publicationIslamic Head Covering among Turkish Women in the U.S.: Creating International Spaces of Difference
Islamic head and body covering is often stereotyped in the West as an exotic cultural practice that, at best, represents patriarchal oppression, and,...
7/1/07 by Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood · More from publicationBellydance in the Town Square: Leaking Peace through Tribal Style Identity
INTRODUCTION: COOLER THAN BARBIE Tiny girls sit in a make-shift front row, unblinking as dancers whirl and twist by them. The music, vaguely Middle...
7/1/07 by Kenny, Erin · More from publication
