A study of the activities of Jewish Americans and the patronage of Chinese food establishments at Christmastime.
Feature Article
Hothead Paisan: Clearing a Space for a Lesbian Feminist Folklore
The author discusses a currently produced, independent comic “zine” which uses the myths and symbolism of lesbian identity.
Gay Men’s English: Cooperative Discourse in a Language of Risk
A study of the dynamics of language and gender among gay men.
Something to Remember Me By: Maupin’s Tales of the City Novels as Artifacts in Contemporary Gay Folk Culture
The author analyzes the role of folklore by Armistad Maupin, in his series of novels based on gay life in San Francisco, CA.
“I Would Rather be Fixated on the Lord”: Women’s Religion, Men’s Power, and the ‘Dignity’ Problem
Primiano studies the Phildelphia chapter of the Catholic group “Dignity” as an expression of vernacular religion among gay and lesbian Catholics.
Body Rhetoric: A Study in Lesbian Coding
Laude documents the non-verbal codes for lesbian communities in the Mid-Western United States.
Untitled: Opus 7 (This is Folklore) or Purity and Danger: An Interpretation
The author is concerned with how the qualities of a particular space carry meaning and how this meaning relates to a folk cultural group.
Ethnicity, Nostalgia, Affirmation: The Rhetoric of Italian American Identity
The author explores how Italian American identity is expessed through religious belief, language, and memory.
Inside Millie’s Kitchen
Personal narratives enable us to define a specific group’s values within the context of daily life. Using one Adirondack narrator as the subject of the paper, McMahon demonstrates how whe creates and defines her narrative space within the boundaries of her community,
Winemaking and Personal Cosmology
Personal Narratives of wine making and wine drinking provides a source for self-definition that reinforced ethnicity and personal identity
Pacts with the Devil
The author talks about three tales collected during fieldwork in Hueyapan Mexico and analyses three tales using the the Thompson Tale Index.
The Dutch Barn in America
An exploration of the European precedents for the New World Dutch Barn
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
This article examines the Dr. Suess story, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” in its use of secular Christmas symbols and reasons that that is the reason for its popularity as a story told during the Christmas season.
“Remember Me”: the Sources of American Sampler Verses
Fratto examines the origins and use of verses stiched by young girls on American “samplers.”