Volume 24.1: Translation in/of Folklore Studies:
Perspectives from East Asia

Guest Editor Timothy Thurston

Introduction: China, Translation, Folkloristics

Timothy Thurston

Translation in Public Folklore Projects: Thoughts and Experiences from a Collaboration in Tibet

Wenhong Luo

American “Quilt” in Thick Translation: An Autoethnography from a Museum Translator

Mark Bender

Winged Ones: Translating Aku Wuwu’s Poetic Worlds

Juwen Zhang

Ideological Agenda in Translation: A Look at Two Chinese Folktales

Response: Jing Li

The Folklorist as Translator: Translation, Folkloristics, and Disciplinary Self-Reflection

Response: Jason Baird Jackson

Two Notes on the Topic of Translation

Volume 23.2: The Power of Examples

Guest Editors: Anne Eriksen and Kyrre Kverndokkn

Introduction

Antti Lindfors

Evidential Exemplarity and the Science-Driven Self-Spirituality of the Wim Hof Method

Kyrre Kverndokk

The Greta Story and the Narrative Authority of the Exemplar

Audun Kjus

Between the Crisis Ladder and the Utopia of Frugality: Negotiating Exemplarity in Current Imagined Futures

Anne Eriksen

The Epistemology of Examples: Models and Numbers in the Folklife Studies of Eilert Sundt (1857)

Marit Ruge Bjærke

Between Formlessness and Form: A Red King Crab on the Brink of Exemplarity

Response: Barbro Blehr

Additional Thoughts: Contextual Aspects of Examples and Exemplarity

About Cultural Analysis

Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses.

Established in 2000 in the Berkeley Folklore Archives, Cultural Analysis has published over 19 volumes and hosts a global editorial board and collective.

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    Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.

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  • Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.

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Cultural Analysis encourages submissions from a variety of theoretical standpoints and from different disciplines, including, but not limited to, anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, media studies, popular culture, psychology, and sociology.

Authors should submit research articles of approximately 8,000-10,000 words in length, in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, and include an abstract of 100 words and a "Works Cited" section. Authors must provide either an electronic or a paper copy of their article. Microsoft Word is the preferred format for all electronic copies. Electronic copies may be sent as e-mail attachments to caforum1@gmail.com. Essays (2,500 to 3,500 words) are also welcomed.

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