JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (ISSN: 0021-8715)

Description

The Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society's founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide audience, as well as separate sections devoted to reviews of books, exhibitions and events, films and videotapes, sound recordings, and web sites. Its contents are not restricted to folklore in the United States; in fact, the Journal publishes materials on folklore and from folklorists anywhere in the world.
The contents of the Journal reflect a wide range of professional concerns and points of view. Articles present significant research findings and theoretical analyses from folklore and related fields. Essays are interpretive, speculative, or polemic. Notes are narrower in scope and focus on a single, often provocative, issue of definition, interpretation, or amplification. Commentaries briefly address topics raised in earlier articles.
Members of the American Folklore Society receive four issues of the Journal each year as one of their member benefits. Members can also access online versions of JAF issues from 2001 through the present via Project MUSE.
The Journal is published for the Society by the University of Illinois Press. It is also produced with the generous assistance of the following units at the University of Wisconsin: the Graduate School, the College of Letters and Science, the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, and the Folklore Program.