南池子

Articles
Introduction to the Special Issue: Living Epics of China and Inner Asia
pp. 253-269
John D. Niles

Documenting Living Oral Traditions: China’s Institute of Ethnic Literature as Case Study
pp. 270-287
Qubumo Bamo, Gejin Chao, John D. Niles

A Comparative Study of Performers of the Manas Epic
pp. 288-296
Adil Jumaturdu

Constitutional Mythologies and Entangled Cultures in the Tibeto-Mongolian Gesar Epic: The Motif of Gesar’s Celestial Descent
pp. 297-326
George FitzHerbert

Oral Epics into the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Kyrgyz Epic Manas
pp. 326-344
Karl Reichl

Note
Crossroads of the Imagination: A Possible Musical Origin for the Character of Jupiter in Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”
pp. 345-348
John Vukmirovich

Book Reviews
Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag ed. by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye (review)
pp. 349-350
Sara Cleto

The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed by Elaine Eff (review)
pp. 350-352
Gregory Hansen

Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (review)
pp. 352-353
Jeffrey Mifflin

Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (review)
pp. 353-356
Brittany Warman

Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber by Kimberly J. Lau (review)
pp. 356-357
Victoria L. M. Harkavy

Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama, and Storytelling by Vibeke Bordahl (review)
pp. 357-359
Mu Peng

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner (review)
pp. 359-360
Todd Richardson
  
Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society by Timo Kaartinen (review)
pp. 361-362
Adam Frank

Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca by Chris Goertzen (review)
pp. 362-363
Jim Griffith
  
Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century by Ann K. Ferrell (review)
pp. 363-365
Grover Welch
  
Staging Strife: Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (review)
pp. 365-366
Carol Silverman
  
Film Review
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records by Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon (review)
pp. 367-369
Jennifer Joy Jameson
  
Sound Reviews
80 by Dwight Lamb, Nate Kemperman, Amber Gaddy, and David Cavins, and: Live in Denmark 2013 [Part Two] by Dwight Lamb, and Jensen & Bugge (review)
pp. 370-372
Scott Prouty

Got a Little Home to Go To by Cliff Bryan, and: Traditional Music of Texas. Volume 1: Fiddle Recordings from the Texas Folklife Archives by Dan Margolies and Charlie Lockwood (review)
pp. 372-374
Paul L. Tyler
  
Information about Contributors
pp. 375-376