Western Folklore

Los Angeles, California: California Folklore Society, 1982. Octavo in goldenrod pictorial wraps with red and black printing; index; 330 pages Light shelfwear to wraps, mostly at front edge of spine; pages are clean and binding tight, a near fine copy. Paperback. ISBN: 0043373X

Western Folklore (ISSN 0043-373X), the journal of the Western States Folklore Society (formerly California Folklore Society), is published quarterly in winter, spring, summer, and fall. Founded in 1942, it has become the leading American journal devoted to the description and analysis of regional, national, and international folklore and custom. Subscribers include professional and amateur folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, as well as libraries, historical societies, and folk art museums.

Vol XLI, October 1982, Number 4.

Contents: "Family Folklore and Oral History Interviews: Strategies for Introducing a Project to One's Own Relatives" - Margaret Yocom; "Give me...your huddled masses": Anti-Vietnamese Refugee Lore and the "Image of Limited Good" - Florence Baer; Topics and Comments - "Wall Street Wags: Uses of Humor in the Financial Community" - Rosemary O. Joyce; Book Reviews : "Ethnicity on the Great Plain", "Sixteen Countries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World", "See that We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania", "Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence", "The Traditional Arts and Crafts of Warren County, Kentucky", "Webfoots and Bunchgrassers: Folk Art of the Oregon County", Book Notes: Barbara Allen; Film Review - "Joy Unspeakable"; Indexes