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 …

The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) is to advocate, to
the academic and public folklore sectors, that (1) the commonly classified “Asian …

This article seeks to create Global Asian Folklore Studies (GAFS) by integrating the study of
global Asias and Critical Folklore Studies. Similar to Critical Latinx Folklore Studies, GAFS …

Since the early 1980s, scholarship across disciplines has employed the" ghostly" as critical
lens for understanding the upheavals of modernity. The ghost stands metaphorically for the …

This chapter introduces Asian religious traditions and draws out some implications for
mental health that are important to counselors, mental health professionals, and social …

I am part Filipina on my mother's side, and this project began because of my personal
connection to the Filipino American community. As I will discuss in the native anthropologist …

Compared to the Indigenous, African Americans, and Lationas/os, the Asian American
experience is relatively short—roughly 140 years. Although the historical experiences of …

In this MRP, I analyze interviews with fourteen family members who migrated from Vietnam
to North America, especially focusing on the period after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, to …