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Review of Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives

Felicia McMahon

Citation

McMahon, Felicia. “Book Review: Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture
in Italian-American Lives, edited by Joseph Sciorra.” New York Folklore, vol. 37: 1-2, 2011. pp. 47-48.

Summary

Masterfully arranged by the editor, the articles in this book comprise a sterling collection of Italian American folklore research. The organization of the work provides seamless transitions from essays on foodways to material culture, cultural landscape to explicit art forms, and largescale ceremonial events to religious belief, all situated in diverse locales from New York to California.

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