NB Folklore 📚

NB #Folklore is an author-interview #podcast channel featuring folklorists discussing their new books, part of the @NewBooksNetwork. 🎧

[NB Folklore 📚 @NewBooksFolklor]

Drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Félix Arnaudin, BODY and TRADITION in 19th CENTURY FRANCE (@OUPHistory) traces Gascony from an area of open moors into the largest man-made forest in Europe. @willpooley joins Rachel Hopkin on the podcast👇

https://t.co/BoxnMMs0Ng

[New Books Network @NewBooksNetwork]

Illustrating the connections between political, carnivalesque, and ritualesque, PUBLIC PERFORMANCES (@UPColorado) provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power. Jack Santino fills us in on the volume👇

https://t.co/ogN9i3E5jl

[NB Religion 📚 @NewBooksRelig]

🎙️ @dstone76 has @CJBlythePhD on the podcast to discuss TERRIBLE REVOLUTION (@OUPReligion), an examination of apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, especially in the writings and visions of the laity. 👂⬇️

https://t.co/bGmSAt47o9

[NB Anthropology 📚 @NewBooksAnthro]

Based on extensive fieldwork, A DOG PISSING at the EDGE of a PATH (@McGillQueensUP) explores the meaning and use of over 500 animal metaphors employed by the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. Gregory Forth discusses his research ⤵️

https://t.co/rDjjbzkgKh

[NB History 📚 @newhistorybooks]

VALKYRIE (@BloomsburyPub) plunges us into the world of the Viking women as they grapple with the emotional rollercoaster that is adolescence, weather transactional marriages, and navigate old age. Check out @JWEremeeva's conversation with @sagaknitter ↙️

https://t.co/VLowqsatsk

[NB Folklore 📚 @NewBooksFolklor]

Why do writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa’s west coast and Hebrew and Christian traditions? Kathryn Hume discusses THE METAMORPHOSES of MYTH in FICTION since 1960 (@BloomsburyAcad) w/@CarrieLynnLand👇

https://t.co/Qnm1nVvSix

[NB Folklore 📚 @NewBooksFolklor]

Oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. On this episode Éva Guillorel fills us in on RYTHMS of REVOLT (@RoutledgeHist), a history from below, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.👂👇

https://t.co/kC0wksl2KY

[NB Folklore 📚 @NewBooksFolklor]

Part memoir, part essay and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, THE POETRY of EVERYDAY LIFE (@CornellPress) taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell. Steve Zeitlin joins us👇

https://t.co/IKV94whA2t

[NB Hindu Studies 📚 @NewBooksHindu]

Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata (@AnthemPress) examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a key character in the very epic he composes.

🎙️Kevin McGrath joins @DrRajBalkaran ⤵️

https://t.co/uOHEOE1uJx

[NB Religion 📚 @NewBooksRelig]

📕 @ellejaaaaay interviews Magda Teter, author of BLOOD LIBEL (@Harvard_Press), a new book that traces the history of the myth and analyzes how accusations of ritual murder have followed Jews from the 12th century to the contemporary period. Listen in ⤵️

https://t.co/9w0ZJLZUI3

[Allison Chaplin @abchapli_IUP]

Listen to @taoyinkui's interview of @iupress Chinese Folklore Studies Today editors Lijun Zhang and Ziying You:
https://t.co/0ApA8wO5kE

[Timothy Thurston @taoyinkui]

Another @NewBooksFolklor podcast. This time I'm in conversation with Lijun Zhang (of @GMU_Folklore) and Ziying You (of @WoosterEdu) about their edited volume: Chinese FOlklore Studies Today, from @iupress https://t.co/QlO2bTTHdb

[NB Folklore 📚 @NewBooksFolklor]

CHINESE FOLKLORE STUDIES TODAY (@iupress) is the first English-language book to cover the historical development, current situation, and theoretical contributions of Chinese #FolkloreStudies. Tune in as editors Lijun Zhang and Ziying You join @taoyinkui👇

https://t.co/MXrE8E3Yln

[NB Literature 🎙️ 📚 @NewBooksLit]

In THE DISOBEDIENCE of the DAUGHTER of the SUN (@NAtlanticBooks), Martín Prechtel introduces the stories he heard when he lived among the Tzutujil Mayan people in the village of Santiago Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands. 👂his conversation w/@eclemay👇

https://t.co/kl5RinItvT

[Timothy Thurston @taoyinkui]

New from @iupress: "Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts" edited by former @NewBooksFolklor guest Levi Gibbs. Great volume w/ contributions by Sue Tuohy, Helen Rees, and Emily Wilcox. On unrelated note, my grad school classmates are all way more accomplished than I am.

[Timothy Thurston @taoyinkui]

Oh, hey! So this is a thing I did. Really fun conversation with Charlene Makley about her excellent book based on fieldwork in #Amdo #Tibet.

[NB East Asian Studies 📚 @NewBooksEAsia]

A "dialogic ethnography" informed by linguistic anthropology, THE BATTLE for FORTUNE (@CornellPress) considers Tibetans’ encounters with development projects as a historically situated interpretive politics. Tune in as Charlene Makley joins @taoyinkui 👇

https://t.co/h9pHi6F7uo

[Dr Ian Brodie @AVulgarArt]

Late to this, but just listened to @NewBooksFolklor and @taoyinkui’s great interview with @AndreaKitta on her “The Kiss of Death,” which I’ve already assigned for this semester’s urban legend course. https://t.co/RcbqPPi36M

[Timothy Thurston @taoyinkui]

I return to @NewBooksFolklor after a lengthy too-busy-to-manage-basic-tasks-let-alone-this-induced hiatus

[Dr. Andrea Kitta 🎃 👻 @AndreaKitta]

Hey! Want to hear about my book The Kiss of Death? There's a podcast for that! @NewBooksFolklor #askafolklorist #FolkloreThursday