Journal of Folklore Research new issue and upcoming book publications

Dear Colleagues,
We are very pleased to announce the most recent issue of the Journal of Folklore Research, a special double issue entitled UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Global Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage (edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman). Please see below for table of contents.
The issue is now available through Project Muse and JSTOR:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_folklore_research/
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfolkrese.52.issue-2-3
We are also thrilled to announce our new JFR book series published with Indiana University Press:
Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
The first two publications, book versions of the UNESCO double issue and an earlier triple issue on Dell Hymes and ethnopoetics, will be available within the next few months.
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3130_8852&products_id=807804
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3130_8852&products_id=807806

Journal of Folklore Research An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Vol. 52, No. 2-3, May/December 2015

·  Interim Editor’s Note
     Jason Baird Jackson
·  UNESCO on the Ground
     Michael Dylan Foster
·  Voices on the Ground: Kutiyattam, UNESCO, and the Heritage of Humanity
     Leah Lowthorp
·  The Economic Imperative of UNESCO Recognition: A South Korean Shamanic Ritual
     Kyoim Yun
·  Demonic or Cultural Treasure? Local Perspectives on Vimbuza, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and UNESCO in Malawi
     Lisa Gilman
·  Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting Intangible Cultural Heritage on a Japanese Island
     Michael Dylan Foster
·  Macedonia, UNESCO, and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Challenging Fate of Teškoto
     Carol Silverman
·  Shifting Actors and Power Relations: Contentious Local Responses to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary
     China
     Ziying You
·  Understanding UNESCO: A Complex Organization with Many Parts and Many Actors
     Anthony Seeger
·  Intangible Heritage as Diagnosis, Safeguarding as Treatment
     Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
·  From Cultural Forms to Policy Objects: Comparison in Scholarship and Policy
     Dorothy Noyes