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2011
“For the Good of the Community”: Identity, Conflict and Change in a Western Winter Carnival , Lisa Gabbert
Folklore Rules: A Fun, Quick, and Useful Introduction to the Field of Academic Folklore Studies, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
What Every Student Should Know About Online Classes, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
Dark Tourism as Danse Macabre, Jeannie B. Thomas
Ghosts, Jeannie B. Thomas
2010
Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Folklore Studies, Lisa Gabbert
2009
The Complexities of Community in Grant County: What I Learned about Folklore from Traditional Arts Indiana, Lisa Gabbert
On Slanderous Words and Bodies Out-of-Control: Hospital Humor and the Medical Carnivalesque, Lisa Gabbert and Anton Salud
The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
The Kashrut Con Game: Keeping Kosher in Prison, Steve Siporin
Where Does the Parokhet Belong?, Steve Siporin
Barbie Doll, Jeannie B. Thomas
2008
McCall’s Winter Carnival: Folklore in Snow, Lisa Gabbert
Mixed Motives: Sustaining and Defining Jewish Heritage in a Small Italian City Today, Steve Siporin
The Chocolate Egg and the Diamond Ring: A Contemporary Legend from Perugia, Italy, Steve Siporin
The Rabbi's Family.” Ebrei Piemontesi: The Jews of Piedmont, Steve Siporin
Instructions for Installing Blinds, Jeannie B. Thomas
Salem, Massachusetts, Playground at Gallows Hill, Jeannie B. Thomas
Shins Around the Fire (A Jig), Jeannie B. Thomas
Woman, 41, Jeannie B. Thomas
2007
Distanciation and the Recontextualization of Space: Finding One’s Way in a Small Western Community, Lisa Gabbert
Situating the Local by Inventing the Global: Community Festival and Social Change, Lisa Gabbert
Space, Place, Emergence, Lisa Gabbert and Paul Jordan-Smith
Portable Places: Serial Collaboration and the Creation of a New Sense of Place, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
The Waving Ones: The Experiential Source Hypothesis and Beliefs About Cats, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeannie B. Thomas
2006
Contemporary Ghost Hunting and the Relationship Between Proof and Experience, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
Epiphanies and Gifts, Steve Siporin
Communicative Commemoration and Graveside Shrines: Jim Morrison, Princess Diana, My ‘Bro’ Max, and Boogs the Cat, Jeannie B. Thomas
2005
National Heritage Fellows, Steve Siporin
Gender, Jeannie B. Thomas
2004
“I Knew It Would Be A Real Bonding Experience”: Utah State University's English Department Pig Party as an Annual Rite of Passage, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
“Traces of Coming and Going”: The Contemporary Creation of Inuksuit on the Avalon Peninsula, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
Community and Commensality, Steve Siporin
Eating (W)rite, Steve Siporin
La Befana in Maremma: Italian Mumming Today, Steve Siporin
Review of Jack Santino’s Signs of War and Peace, Jeannie B. Thomas
2003
A Culture’s Ethnography in its Historical Context: The Italian Jewish Case, Steve Siporin
Food in Folklore: Nightmares and Dreams, Steve Siporin
Identity at Work, Steve Siporin
Kenai and Soldotna: Communities of Performed Memory, Steve Siporin
Your Identity at Work, Steve Siporin
Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender, Jeannie B. Thomas
2002
Making Objects, Creating Places: McCall Winter Carnival, Lisa Gabbert
Life is Beautiful: Four Riddles, Three Answers, Steve Siporin
The Survival of the Most Ancient of Minorities, Steve Siporin
2001
English 1010 Student Handbook, Lynne Sullivan McNeill
La Befana, Steve Siporin
Sfrati and Vino Kasher: Jewish Food without Jews, Steve Siporin
The Jews of Pitigliano: A Minority in Folklore, History, Memory, and Monument, Steve Siporin
Venice and the Jews: Centuries of Cooking From the First Ghetto, Steve Siporin
Review of Susan Stern’s film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie B. Thomas
The Cemetery as Marketplace in Salem, Massachusetts, Jeannie B. Thomas
2000
Naming Places: Re-Shaping and Re-Modeling through Local Linguistic Practices, Lisa Gabbert
Petting the Fabric: Media and the Creative Process, Lisa Gabbert
Religious Belief and Everyday Knowledge: A Functional Analysis of the Legend Dialectic, Lisa Gabbert
A Map to the World's First Ghetto, Steve Siporin
Flying, Steve Siporin
Four Riddles, Three Answers, Steve Siporin
On Scapegoating Public Folklore, Steve Siporin
The Little Jerusalem of Italy, Steve Siporin
Introduction to Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself, Steve Siporin, Polly Stewart, C. W. Sullivan III, and Suzi Jones
Tall Tales and Sales, Steve Siporin, Polly Stewart, C. W. Sullivan III, and Suzi Jones
Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself, Steve Siporin, Polly Stewart, C. W. Sullivan III, and Suzi Jones
Review of Kathleen Stoker’s Folklore Fights the Nazis, Jeannie B. Thomas
Ride ‘Em Barbie Girl: Commodifying Folklore, Place, and the Exotic, Jeannie B. Thomas
Stone Angels, Naked Mourners, and Various Virgins: Statues, Legends, and the Gendering of Intimacy, Jeannie B. Thomas
Bluegrass and ‘White Trash’: A Case Study Concerning the Name ‘Folklore’ and Class Bias, Jeannie B. Thomas and Doug Enders
1999
The ‘Text/Context’ Controversy and the Emergence of Behavioral Approaches in Folklore, Lisa Gabbert
County Football Scholarships, Steve Siporin
For Time and Eternity : BYU Coed Jokes and the Seriousness of Mormon Humor, Steve Siporin
Review of Julie Cruikshank’s The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory, Jeannie B. Thomas
1998
A Map to the World’s First Ghetto, Steve Siporin
Chiuda Fiona, Steve Siporin
Postmodernism, Jeannie B. Thomas
Review of Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye’s Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada, Jeannie B. Thomas
1997
Folklore and Folk Arts in Idaho: An Educational Resource Guide, Lisa Gabbert
Folk Masters: America’s Living Treasures, Steve Siporin
June Gangnon’s Fish Fog, Steve Siporin
The Pumpkin Walk: Seasonal Folk Art in a Local Community, Steve Siporin
The Whittling Edge: The Borders of Folk Art and the Work of an Idaho Woodcarver, Steve Siporin
Dumb Blondes, Dan Quayle, and Hillary Clinton: Gender, Sexuality, and Stupidity in Jokes, Jeannie B. Thomas
Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories, Jeannie B. Thomas
1996
Constructing the Matriarch: The Role of Children in Making an Oral History, Steve Siporin
Death by Iced Whiskey, Steve Siporin
National Heritage Fellows, Steve Siporin
1995
BYU Coed Jokes and the Seriousness of Mormon Humor, Steve Siporin
Lamed-vavniks and Three Nephites, Steve Siporin
Why Pots and Pans Are Important: Jewish Food Belief and Custom, Steve Siporin
Campus Legends and Lore, Jeannie B. Thomas
ISU’s Barfing Ghost Legend, Jeannie B. Thomas
Pickup Trucks, Horses, Women, and Foreplay: The Fluidity of Folklore, Jeannie B. Thomas
1994
Folklife and Survival: The Italian Americans of Carbon Country, Steve Siporin
From Kashrut to Cucina Ebraica: The Recasting of Italian Jewish Foodways, Steve Siporin
Halloween Pranks: Just a Little Inconvenience, Steve Siporin
Inside Information: Knowing Who You are, from Idaho to Italy, Steve Siporin
Jackalopes, Fur-Bearing Trout, and Watermelons on Skids: The Traditional Marketing of Tradition, Steve Siporin
Tall Tales and Sales, Steve Siporin
The National Heritage Fellows: America's Living National Treasures, Steve Siporin