Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory
and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become …

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and
2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a …

Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars
alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy …

Over the past half-century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field
around the world, and in recent years programs devoted to the teaching of translation have …

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers
Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes …

Over the course of the past forty years, the concept of participation has profoundly modified
the discourse and practice of international and national policy-making and implementation …

My title is a reverent nod to Dan Ben-Amos's pivotal essay,“Toward a Definition of Folklore in
Context”(1971), in which he famously proposed a definition of folklore as “artistic …

Winner of the 2020 Chicago Folklore Prize CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020
Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past …

This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture.
Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena …

This chapter traces the conceptual trajectory that outlines the passage from the early study of
folklore to current international endeavors to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. In order …