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Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag: Index

Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag

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Index


Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

Aarne, Antti, 57

Abonde du Four, 216

accountability, in international adoption, 189

adoption, 189; birth countries and, 186–87; birth families and, 182–86; children’s rights and, 174–75; children’s stories, 181–82; ethical negotiation over, 175–76; and ethics of responsibility, 176–77, 180–81; international, 5, 8, 172–74, 190(nn1–4); moral hierarchy of, 179–80

adoptive parents/families, 175; and birth families, 184–86, 188–89; identity formation, 177, 187–88; stories of, 178–81

Adriansen, Inge, 237

adulthood, transition to, 31–32

advertising, Amagerbanken, 233–36

Ae Ran Won home, 183

African Americans, 47; masculine performance style, 118–19; rhythm and blues, 112, 120–22

agency: Mennonite sexual, 30–31

agriculture, 7, 25, 54(n7), 143; crops understood as culturally male and female in, 44–46; diversification of, 51–53; masculine identity in, 38, 39; tobacco, 38, 46–51

Albania, “Shift of Sex” story in, 66

alcohol use, Mennonite, 31

Alexander Keith’s brewery, 196

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 98

Altona (Manitoba), 20

Amagerbanken, 243(n6); ad campaign, 233–36

Amager Dutch: carnival, 236–39; costumes of, 227–28, 229–30, 235; history of, 231–32; identity, 242–43

Amager Island, 226; ad campaign on, 233–36; description of, 232–33; Dutch on, 227, 231–32

Amager Museum, 226, 228, 243(n2); costumes in, 236–37; historic properties, 232–33; immigration project, 240–41

American Family: Just Your Typical American Family . . . Sorta, 181

Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Little Mermaid,” 98

Angelo, Gretchen, 210

“Animal Bride, The” (ATU 402), 96

animal bride/bridegroom, 95, 96, 100, 107, 108; women’s otherness and, 93–94

animals, 10, 107; cross-dressing, 9, 71(n3); transformations into, 82, 83. See also animal bride/bridegroom; seal folk

animism, 245

antifeminism, 209, 211

aprons, as symbols of domesticity, 104–5

aristocracy, as gendered, 79

Armenia, “Shift of Sex” story in, 64–65

Arnaudin, Félix, 134

Arnould, Eric, 150

artisans, golden age of, 48

Assaf, Francis, 60, 72(n22)

assimilation, 242

asylum seekers, in Denmark, 241–42

ATU 312, 63

ATU 400, 96

ATU 402, 96

ATU 425A, 95

ATU 425C, 95

ATU 440, 95

ATU 514, 57; sex change in, 68–70; versions of, 58, 63, 64–67

ATU 514**, 58, 63

ATU 711, 64

ATU 720, 63–64

Aubin, Carol, 187

audience, for Distaff Gospels, 210–11

Austin Powers movies, 196

authenticity, 8, 92(n14); of Distaff Gospels, 211, 212–13; documentary, 131, 135; romanticism and, 133–34

authority, 79, 94, 132, 214; female, 83–84, 85, 208

authorship, 131

autoethnography, 5–6

Avalon (film), 151–52

Bacchilega, Cristina, 106

“bad girls,” 199

Baesler, Alice, 52

bagpipes. See pipe bands

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 176, 177, 185, 198

ballads, trans imagination, 56–57, 72(n10)

Barreca, Regina, 199

barrel king, 239

Barrett, Susan, 187

Bartholet, Elizabeth, 173

Barzaz Breiz (Villemarqué), 130, 133

Basile, Giambattista, “The Three Crowns,” 63

Bauman, Richard, 144

“Beauty and the Beast” (ATU 425C), 95

Beeton, Isabella, 169(n4); Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 151

behavior: homosocial, 112–15, 125–27, 204–5; inappropriate social, 29–30

beliefs, 3; medieval French, 208, 209, 211, 213–14

“Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné” (d’Aulnoy), 65, 71–72(n9, n10); description of, 58–59; sex/gender identity in, 59–63, 69–70, 72(n12, n15, n16, n18, n19)

Bendix, Regina, 132

Bennett, Judith M., 221

Bergthal colony, 23

Berry, John M., Jr., 43

Berry, Wendell, 45, 48

Berthe de Corne, 216

Bettelheim, Bruno, 69

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Sedgwick), 112–13

Bhabha, Homi, on mimicry, 194, 199–200

Big Oak bar, 126–27

biology, and culture, 10

biopics, 75, 76, 77, 88

birth cultures, 187

birth parents/families, 175, 177; adoption stories of, 182–84; and adoptive parents, 184–86, 188–89

blackface, 119, 196

blackness, cultural forms of, 119

Blacks. See African Americans

Bladé, François, 8, 129–30, 146–47(nn3–9); Contes populaires de Gascogne, 136–37; Études sur l’origine des Basques, 134; on folklore collecting, 132–33; folklore collections of, 134–35; on Guillaume Cazaux, 135–36, 144, 146; “My Uncle from Condom,” 137–41, 146; romanticism of, 133–34; and sense of place, 142–43

blogs: adoption, 181, 182; “The Turkey Man,” 164–65

“Bluebeard” (ATU 312), 63

“Blue Suede Shoes,” 123

Blumenfeld (Manitoba), 20

borders, interactions on, 106–7

Borosenko colony, 23

boundaries, 9, 109, 200; of Amager Dutch, 229, 230; and cultural interactions, 106–7; homosocial/homosexual, 127–28

Bourghet, Marie-Noelle, 131

boyhood: and transgender tales, 69–70; transition from, 31–32, 46

boys, White teenage, 119–20

brewery, Scottish identity, 196

Briggs, Laura, 173, 174

British: Christmas tradition, 150–51; and Scottish resistance, 193–94

British Highland regiments, 194

Brocklebank, Lisa, 59–60

Brokeback Mountain (film), 170(n8); patriarchal symbolism in, 152–55

Brommtopp, 11, 12, 13, 20, 37(n18); boyhood to manhood transition in, 31–32; costumes, 17, 18–19; fear of, 32–33; gender transgression in, 29–31; identity in, 33–36; performances, 25, 26, 27–28

Bronner, Simon, Manly Traditions, 117

Brothers Grimm, The. See Grimm brothers

Brothers Grimm, The (film), 8, 76; themes in, 84–89

Brown, W. Norman, on transgendering, 67–68

“Brown County Superstitions: The Structure of Superstition” (Dundes), 212

Bruford, Alan, 95

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 168

Burgundian court, Distaff Gospels, 211

Burley Auction Warehouse Association, 43

burley tobacco, 39; production of, 44–48, 49–51, 54–55(n13)

Burnette, Johnny, 121, 122

Butler, David, 152

Butler, Judith, 194; gender theory, 43, 145–46, 253–54

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (film), 152

Cahill, Susan, 88

Cajuns, Mardi Gras, 32

Cambodia, 179

Cambray, Fouquart de, 210

Campbell, Norman, 76

Canadian Women’s Army Corps Pipe Band, 197–98

cannibals, cannibalism, 86, 141, 142, 145

Cape Verde Islands, “Shift of Sex” story in, 66–67

carnival, Amager Dutch, 227, 236–39

carnival-riding ritual, 238–39

Carroll, Lewis. See Alice in Wonderland

Carter, Mike, 47, 50–51, 52

Castletownbere, 98

Cazaux, Guillaume, 8, 145; as informant, 130, 135–36; “My Uncle from Condom,” 137–41; sense of place, 142–43; sense of time, 143–44

Celtic culture, 98, 108

Cénac-Moncaut, Justin, 134–35

Certeau, Michel de, 131

Chadha, Gurinder, What’s Cooking?, 148–49

Chaho, Augustin, 134

cheating songs, 115–16

children, 77, 79; adopted, 172–73, 177, 181–82, 188, 190(n1); and birth families, 183–84; development of, 68–69; rights of, 174–75

Children’s and Household Tales (Grimm brothers), 74

children’s literature, 90–91(n3); Grimm brothers’ tales as, 75, 79

China: adoption from, 179, 180, 188, 190(n2); female ghosts in, 9, 244, 248–50, 254–59; marriages for the dead in, 251–52; zhiguai tradition, 245–46

Chinese, 35; sex and sexuality, 256–57

Chinese language, 244

Chornoboy, Eleanor, Faspa with Jast, 29, 32

Christian II, King, 228, 231

Christian III, King, 231

Christine de Pizan, 214

Christmas season: British traditions of, 150–51; mumming in, 16–17

Chunqiu fanlu, 251

church, medieval, 224(n7); authority of, 214, 219–20

Cinerama, 77, 78

citizenship law, Denmark, 229

City of St. John’s Pipe Band, 193, 194–95, 196; harassment of, 199, 200–201; kilt humor, 198, 203–4

civilization, women and, 122

class, and masculinity, 145–46

Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History, 246

clubs, men-only, 7

Cocchiara, Giuseppe, The History of Folklore in Europe, 131

Colombia, birth mothers from, 183–84

colonial/colonialism, sexual fantasies, 101

comedy, as queer, 75. See also humor

commercialization, of fairy tales, 80–81, 86–87

communication, mass vs. personal, 5

community networks, 5

competition, in tobacco cutting, 47

“Constanza/Constanzo” (Straparola), 63

consumerism, 152, 189

contact zones, cultural interactions in, 106, 107

Contes populaires de Gascogne (Bladé), 136–37

Copenhagen, and Amager island, 226, 231, 232

“Corpse Eater, The” (ATU 363), 57, 64

cosmology, Chinese, 245

costumes: Amager Dutch, 227–28, 229–30, 235, 236–37, 238, 239; Brommtopp, 17, 18–19, 30, 33–34

country music, 120; erotic triangles in, 115–16

Crew Cuts, 119

crops, understood as culturally male and female, 44–45, 54(n7)

cross-dressing, 11, 12, 37(n14), 56, 57, 71(n3), 72(n17), 200; in “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 58–63; Brommtopp performers, 20, 29–31; in fairy tales, 63–67; Grimm brothers, 81, 85; and heterosexuality, 82–83; and identity, 9, 37(n15)

cultural institutions, ideology of, 148–49

cultural interactions, 3, 110; boundaries and, 106–7

cultural representation, song and memory, 117–18

cultural transcendence, of Brothers Grimm, 75

culture, 12, 93, 108, 245; birth, 187; Celtic, 98, 108; expressive, 2, 3; lad, 204–5; popular and traditional, 1, 4, 10, 131

culture camps, 187

Currin, John, Thanksgiving, 160–61

cyber humor, visual, 191–93

dance music, African American, 122

dancing, 119, 125, 127

Danish Cultural Heritage Board, 241

Danish People’s Party, 228

Dannebrog, 236–37

Daoism, 245

d’Arras, Jean, 210

d’Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine, “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 58–63, 72(n12)

Davies, Christie, 204

Davis, Karen, 167

daydreaming, as fantasy, 247

dead, 9, 150; marriages for, 251–52, 259(n6)

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure (Girard), 115

decentering, adoptive parents and, 187–89

Defrance, Anne, 61–62

Dégh, Linda, 141

DeGraff, Amy Vanderlyn, on self-development, 60–61

deities, communion with, 245

de la Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart, Barzaz Breiz, 130, 133

Denmark, 13; Dutch immigration to, 226–27, 231–32; immigration to, 230, 240–42; and Netherlands, 228–29

de Witt, Nelson Ward, 182

Disarming Act, 193, 194

distaff, 209

Distaff Gospels, The. See Evangiles des quenouilles

divination, in medieval France, 216, 217–28

division of labor: gendered, 149–50, 154, 169(n3)

“Dixie Fried,” 123–24, 125

doctoresses, 208, 215

domesticity, 169(n4), 104, 147(n10), 154

domestic violence, in medieval France, 209–10, 221, 222

dominion, male, 94

Dong Zhongshu, 251, 258

Doty, Alexander, 75

dowry, medieval France, 217

Doyle, Christopher, 98

drag, 1, 9, 12; gender, 17, 19, 20, 29–30, 34. See also ethnic drag

Dragør, 243(n3); pre-Lenten carnival, 238–39

dress, 3, 9, 11, 37(n10), 199; Amager Dutch, 227–28, 229–30, 231; Highland, 193, 194; pipe bands, 197–98

drinking, 31; in American South, 112, 115, 124; rockabilly songs, 120–22

“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-dee-o-dee,” 120–22, 123, 125

Dubinsky, Karen, 180, 183

Duggan, Anne E., 60

Dundes, Alan, 114, 245; “Brown County Superstitions,” 212; “Into the Endzone for a Touchdown,” 113

Dutch, immigration to Denmark, 226–27, 228, 231–32. See also Amager Dutch

Dutch language, 232

Dutch Village. See Store Magleby

du Val, Anthoine, 210

Eastern Europe, as other, 110

“East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (ATU 425A), 95

East Reserve (Manitoba), 22, 23

ecclesiastical tradition, mockery of, 208–9

economies, 42, 108

Edley, Nigel, 202

Eggerz, Solveig, 97; Seal Woman, 10, 95, 102–5

Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture (Feintuch), 2

elites: in France, 132, 213–14

Elizabeth II, Queen, 191, 192

Eminem, 119

employment: gender and, 39–40; language use and, 24–25

emulation, of Black performance styles, 118–19

English language: Distaff Gospel editions, 210–11; and Mennonite colonies, 23–25; “Shift of Sex” stories in, 64

Erie, Lake, 48

erotic triangles, 127; in country songs, 115–16

ethics, of adoption, 175–76, 188, 189

ethics of responsibility, in adoption, 175–77, 180–81, 186

ethnic competence, 229

ethnic drag: Amager Dutch, 229, 239; Brommtopp performers in, 17, 18, 19, 30, 34, 35; in Germany, 12–13; Scottish, 194, 196. See also drag

ethnicity, 15(n16); and Brommtopp performances, 35–36; Dutch, 13, 229; reconstructed, 195–96; in tobacco production, 47, 54(n11)

ethnography, and autoethnography, 5–6

ethnology, 1, 2, 8, 14(n1). See also folklore

Études sur l’origine des Basques (Bladé), 134

Europe: cultural and national identity, 105–6; folklore collecting in, 129–32

Evangiles des quenouilles, 4, 8, 224(n12); audience for, 210–11; authenticity of, 212–13; contents of, 213–14; as humor, 211–12; as mockery, 208–9; sexual issues in, 209–10, 216–23; women in, 215–16

Ever After (film), 76; women in, 79–80

expressive culture, 2–3, 6, 14

extramarital relations, in medieval France, 221–22

fabliaux, 211, 215, 220

Fadersminde farmstead, 233

fairies, communion with, 245

fairy tales, 57, 106, 109, 256; commercial importance of, 80–81, 86–87; gendered language in, 65–67, 73(n31), 247–48; gendered schema in, 63–64; Grimms’, 4, 78, 79, 89–90; masculine and feminine, 63–64, 68–69; narrative conventions of, 88–89; sex/gender identity in, 59–65, 70–71. See also folktales; zhiguai tales

fallibility, female, 94

family, 3, 8, 108, 180; adoption and, 181, 188; seal legends and, 96, 97

fang-shi, 245

fantasy, 101, 247; sex/gender identity and, 70–71

farmers, farming, 131; Dutch, 228, 231–32; Icelandic, 103–5; Kentucky burley tobacco, 38–39, 42–43, 45–53, 54(n8, n11, n12), 54–55(n13), 55(n15); Mennonite, 25, 26, 27

Faroe Islands, selkie stories, 95, 102, 111(n7)

faspa, 26–27, 37(n13)

Faspa with Jast (Chornoboy), 29, 32

fastelavn, 227

fastelavnsriding, 238–39

fear, of nontraditional behavior, 32–33

federal tobacco program, 39

Fehr family, 23

Feintuch, Burt, Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture, 2

female, 94, 104. See also women

female body, turkey and, 156, 158–65

female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs), 68

feminine: children’s literature as, 90–91(n3); oral tradition as, 75, 78, 79, 91(n6)

femininities, 6–7, 9, 63, 68, 99; of Brommtopp performers, 29–30; medieval life, 4, 8

feminism, postmodern, 41

feminist scholarship, 117

Feng Menglong, Qingshi, 250

fetish, turkey as, 164–65

fiction, boundaries of, 109

fictionalization, 118

fieldworkers, 5, 6, 132

fighting, 125; American South, 112, 115, 126; rockabilly songs, 116, 120, 121, 122, 124

films, 196; American biographical, 75–76; on Grimm brothers, 4, 8, 76–89; seal women, 95–96; on Thanksgiving, 148, 151–55, 158–59, 165–67

First Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 191, 205

First Nations, 35

fisheries, 42, 45, 48, 103

fishermen, 100; in Newfoundland, 42, 45

Flanders, medieval folklore from, 211, 213, 214

floshat, 235, 236

Foley, Red, “Tennessee Saturday Night,” 120

folklife, occupational, 3

folklore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 14(n1), 133, 144, 211, 223(n1); French medieval, 208–9, 213–14; gender as performance in, 43–44; interpretation of, 220–21. See also folklorists; folktales

folklorists, 5; European, 129–32; Grimm brothers as, 74–75; scholarship of, 134–35

folk revival, 37(n8); Brommtopp, 20, 29

folktales, 3, 4, 76, 79, 108; authority in, 83–84; collections of, 129, 130–32, 134–35; commerciality of, 86–87; of seal wives, 94, 98; sex change in, 67–70. See also fairy tales; zhiguai tales

football: homosocial behavior in, 113–14; as Thanksgiving ritual, 154, 169–70(n6)

forestry, 23

Foster, Jodi, Home for the Holidays, 152

Fox, Jennifer, 131

France, 143; folklore collection in, 129–32; medieval folklore, 208–9, 216–23; medieval literature, 58, 215–16; publishing of Distaff Gospels, 210–11; “Shift of Sex” stories from, 64, 66

frauds, 130, 133

Fredericton (New Brunswick), 7

Frederik I, King, 231

freedom, women’s, 94

Freedom from Want (Rockwell), 148, 149, 168

French language, “Shift of Sex” story in, 64, 66, 71–72(n9, n10), 73(n31)

French Revolution, 143

Friend, Craig Thompson, on passionate manhood, 116–17

Friends, Thanksgiving show, 159–60, 170(n12)

Friendship Circle, 238

“Frog King, The,” 95

frontiers, cultural transactions in, 106–7

Frow, John, 106

Fry, Caitlin, 197, 199, 204

Fry, Rosalie K., The Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, 98

FTMs. See female-to-male transsexuals

Fussell, Paul, 204

Gallagher, Clarence, 50

Garay, Kathleen, 210

Gargantua, 143, 144

Garrad County Tobacco Cutting Contest, 47

Gascony, 134, 142

Gates, Laura Doyle, 210

gender, 1, 2, 6–7, 8, 15(n4), 25, 37(n14), 54(n7), 117, 118, 143, 158, 251; and Brommtopp tradition, 27–28, 29–31; as constructed status, 253–54; division of labor, 149–50; and employment, 39–40; in fairy tales, 59–60, 63–67, 247–48; in folktales, 4, 145–46; Grimm brothers, 75–76; performance of, 6, 42, 43–44, 90(n2), 154; tobacco farming and, 39, 46, 47, 52–53, 54(n12), 55(n16); zhiguai tales, 246–47

gender conflict, in medieval France, 216–17

gender drag, 12; Brommtopp performers in, 17, 19, 20, 29–30, 34

gendering, 4; in Sou shen ji, 252–53

genderqueers/genderfuckers, 56, 57, 71(n2)

gender relations, 239; in “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 59–60; in medieval France, 209–10, 216–23

gender roles, 39, 103; Amager Dutch performances, 230, 238–39; kilt-wearing and, 198–99

genre, 3; zhiguai as, 244–45

genre/generic, 106; complexity of, 108–9

George IV, King, 194

Germans, as other, 75

Germany, 98, 108; ethnic drag in, 12–13, 230; nation-building, 76–77

“Ghostly Wedding Nights, The” (Tale 395), 248–49, 251, 252–53

ghost princess/wife, 9, 244, 245, 246, 248–50, 252–53, 254–56; marriage to, 257–58, 259

Giesbrecht, Alvina, 28, 30, 32

Gilliam, Terry, The Brothers Grimm, 8, 76, 84

Girard, René, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, 115

girls, R & B and, 120

Glassie, Henry, 52

global economic system, and international adoption, 180, 188–89

Goldman, Eric, 152

Gomberde la Faee, 216

gospels, 208, 224(n3)

grandparents, and adopted children, 185

Great Recession, 39

Greek language, “Shift of Sex” stories in, 64, 65, 66

Green Man, 144; legend of, 142, 143

“Green Man, The,” 142, 143

Grigson, Dan, on tobacco men, 48–49

Grimm, Dortchen, 76

Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm), 4; authority of, 89–90; as con artists, 84–89; film representations of, 8, 77, 80–81; gender and sexuality of, 75–76, 78–79, 81–83, 91(n6, n7, n9, n10); misconceptions about, 74–75

Grindhouse (film), 10

Guatemala, adoption from, 179–80, 182, 183, 184, 186, 190(n2, n5)

Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, 173, 175

Halberstam, Judith, 69–70, 73(n34)

Hamm, Bruno, 27, 30

Handler, Richard, 43

Harris, Jason Marc, 107

Harris, Trudier, 96

Hay, Jennifer, 200

hegemonic masculinity. See masculinities, hegemonic

hegemony, destabilizing male, 94

Heiniger-Casteret, Patricia, 130, 137

Heloise, 214

Henson, Martin, 50

Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 131

heritage, 3, 4

hermaphrodites. See intersexuals

heroes, disguised, 58, 63

heteronormativity, 1, 11, 57

heterosexuality, 1; and gender relations, 61–62; obligatory, 113, 114; in Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, 81–83

hierarchy, gendered, 79

High German, Mennonite use of, 23, 24, 35, 37(n12), 37(n18)

Highland Games, male bonding, 204

Highland regiments, 194, 206–7(n1)

Highland Scots, 193

Highland Societies, 194

Hildegard of Bingen, 214

Hindu narratives, 67

Hispanic societies, and transgender tales, 68–69, 73(n26)

historic properties, Amager Island, 232–33

History of Folklore in Europe, The (Cocchiara), 131

Hjorth, Birte, 231

Hochfeld (Manitoba), 20, 24

Hochfeld School, 24

hockey, as homosocial experience, 114–15

Holbek, Bengt, 156; gendered schema of, 63–64, 248, 253; Interpretation of Fairy Tales, 247

Home for the Holidays (film), 152

homoeroticism, in fairy tales, 58, 72(n16, n22)

homophobia, 113, 125, 127, 153, 169(n5); and homosocial behavior, 114, 128; of kilt wearers, 200–201

homosexuality, 82, 91(n6), 200; in “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 61–62; boundaries, 127–28; and homosociality, 113–14, 125; and turkey-carving ritual, 152–53

homosocial behavior, 113, 124; hockey as, 114–15; lad culture, 204–5

homosocial desire, 7, 112–13, 115, 127, 127, 256

homosociality, 7, 8, 11, 15(n11), 49, 117, 118; boundaries, 127–28; British, 112–13; continuum, 113–14, 125; in “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-dee-o-dee,” 120–22; of rock ‘n’ roll bars, 126–27; of teenage boys, 119–20

honky-tonk music, 118

honky-tonks, 115; violence in, 123–24

Hooker, Jessica, 68

Horned Men, 143–44

Horstman, Dorothy, 116

housekeeping, gendered work, 27–28

house visits, 16–17; Mennonite weekly, 26–27, 37(n13). See also Brommtopp

“How to Recipe for a Bikini Tanned Turkey by Dear Miss Mermaid,” 156

humor, 3; cyber, 191–93; in Distaff Gospels, 211–12, 214; kilt wearing and, 4, 198, 201, 202, 204; rebellious, 205–6; women’s sexual, 199–200

Huntington, Rania, 250

hybridization, 106

Hymes, Dell, 2, 43

Iceland, 106, 108; gender roles, 103–5; seal folk stories in, 94, 95, 96, 102

Ide et Olive, 58

identity, 12, 13, 20, 94, 227; and adoption, 172, 181, 187–88; Amager Dutch, 242–43; in Brommtopp performances, 33–36; female ghost, 251, 252; gender, 15(n4), 37(n14, n15), 54(n9), 62; in Ondine, 105–6; Scottish, 194, 195, 196; in Seal Woman, 102–3; self as other, 1, 9–10; sex/gender, 56, 59–63, 65–66, 69–71, 72(n20); tobacco farming, 48–51

ideology, of Thanksgiving, 148–49

immigrants, 107; Amager Dutch as, 226–27, 230

immigration, 100; to Denmark, 226–27, 228, 230, 231–32, 240–42; women’s roles in, 107–8

incest, 82, 219

incubus, 219, 224(n17)

independence, 60, 145

India, adoption and, 175

informants, 129, 130, 132, 133, 136–37, 141, 142

Internet, cyber humor on, 191–93

Interpretation of Fairy Tales (Holbek), 247

intersectionality, 12

intersexuals, 56, 68, 85

intertext/intertextual/intertextuality, 3, 109

“Into the Endzone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football” (Dundes), 113

intoxication, in Mennonite culture, 31

Ireland, 106, 108; Neil Jordan’s films of, 97–98; seal folk stories from, 95, 96, 110(n5)

Irish Film Board, 98

I Want to Stuff You (music video), 163

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life, 183

Jackson, Wanda, 118

Jagger, Mick, 119

Jeay, Madeleine, 210, 213; Savoir faire, 211, 212

Jin Dynasty, marriage of the dead in, 251–52

Joan of Arc, 60, 72(n17)

John/Joan case, 62

joke(s), joking, 8; kilt, 202, 204; rebellious, 205–6; women’s sexual, 199–200

Jones, Christine, 62

Jordan, Neil: films of, 97–98; Ondine, 10, 95, 97

Julia, Dominique, 131

“Juniper Tree, The” (ATU 720), 63–64

Kao, Karl S. Y., 245

Karras, Ruth Mazo, 221

Kazakhstan, 180

Kehler, Menno, 31

Kentucky, 52; tobacco farmers in, 6, 7–8, 38–39, 44–48, 53(n2)

Kentucky Women in Agriculture, 52, 55(n15)

keying, 198

kidnapping, 183

kilt wearing: cyber humor and, 192–93; gender roles and, 198–99; and lad culture, 204–5; and masculinity, 11, 201–3; and pipe bands, 196–97; Scottishness and, 193–94; sexual gaze and, 199–200; wearing of, 4, 5, 191, 203–4, 207(n2, n3); women’s pipe bands, 197–98

Kim, Eleana, 182

Kimmel, Michael, Manhood in America, 117

Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Grimm brothers), 79, 90(n1)

King, Sid, 121

King’s Amagers, 232

Kingsolver, Barbara, on turkey breeding, 155–58

knife, as phallus, 166–67, 170(n8), 171(n20)

knowledge, of elderly women, 208–9, 215, 216–23

Korea, adoption from, 182, 183, 188, 190(n2)

Kotthoff, Helga, 198

Lacaze, Pauline, 137

lad culture, 204–5

Lanclos, Donna, 68–69

land: French dower, 217; Dutch ownership of, 231

landmarks, in legends, 142–43

language, 104, 227, 232; gender shifts in, 65–67, 72(n12), 73(n31)

Larsen, Elizabeth, 185

Latin America, 185, 190(n2). See also Guatemala

Latinos, as tobacco cutters, 47, 54(n11)

Lawson, Mary Katzman, 213

Lee, Ang, Brokeback Mountain, 152–55

Lefkowitz, Paula, 150

Le Folk-lore de France (Sébillot), 211

legend(s), 3, 109, 213; as debates, 141–42; and place, 142–43

Legros, Elisée, 58

Lehning, James, 131

Leinaweaver, Jessaca, 173

lesbian relationships, 57, 67

Les fileuses et le clerc: Une étude des “Evangiles de quenouilles,” Les (Paupert), 212–13

letters, from birth mothers, 183–84

Levin, Henry, 76, 80

Levinson, Barry, Avalon, 151

Lewis, Jerry Lee, 112; “Drinkin’ Wine Spoo-dee-o-dee,” 120–21, 122

“L’homme vert,” 142. See also Green Man

Linnekin, Jocelyn, 43

literacy, 211; English, 24–25

literary heritage, 93(n6), 224(n6); Grimms’ preservation of, 78, 79

literary tradition, 75, 78, 80, 91(n13), 214; zhiguai, 244–47

literature, 4; childrens’, 75, 79, 90–91(n3); medieval, 58, 215–16; vs. oral tradition, 214–15; scholarly vs. popular, 211

“Little Mermaid, The” (Andersen), 98

Lloyd, Timothy, 48

Lott, Eric, Love and Theft, 119

love, 75, 219

Love and Theft: Blackface Ministrelsey and the American Working Class (Lott), 119

Low German, 232; Mennonite use of, 23, 24, 35

Lunbeck, Elizabeth, The Psychiatric Persuasion, 122

Lu Xun, on sex and sexuality, 256–57

Luzel, François-Marie, 130, 134

MacAulay, John M., 97

MacCannell, Dean, on reconstructed ethnicity, 195–96

Macdonald, Angus L., 194

MacNamaras (family), 96

Maglebylille, 232, 233

“Maiden-Killer [Bluebeard],” 63

male bonding, 113, 116–17, 122, 127, 204

maleness, forms of, 7

males, 94; emotions of, 116–17. See also men

Malone, Bill, 118

mancession, 39–40

manhood, 6, 26, 69, 115, 122; Mennonite succession to, 31–32; passionate, 116–17

Manhood in America: A Cultural History (Kimmel), 117

Manitoba: Brommtopp performances, 11, 17–20, 27–28; ethnoracial minorities in, 34–35; Mennonite communities in, 21–25, 37(n11)

Manitoba School Attendance Act, 23–24

Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities (Bronner), 117

“Man on a Quest for His Lost Wife, The” (ATU 400), 96

Mardi Gras, Cajun, 32

marginalization, marginality: of ethnoracial minorities, 34–35; of tobacco farmers, 7–8

Marie de France, 214

marketing, tobacco, 51

Marre, Diana, 174

marriage, 94, 259(n7); animal spouses, 93, 95, 100, 107; Chinese ghost, 9, 252–53, 254–58; to the dead, 251–52; gender conflict in, 216–17; in medieval France, 217–18, 224(n16)

Martin, Janis, 118

masculine continuum, 70, 73(n34)

masculinities; 9, 54(n4), 68, 90(n2), 127, 206, 215, 257; African American, 118–19, 122; Brommtopp performers, 29–31; changing status of, 48–51; and class, 145–46; in fairy tales, 60, 63; female, 11, 69–70, 73(n34); French bourgeois, 132, 135; Grimm brothers, 75, 77, 83; hegemonic, 6, 15(n6), 20, 37(n9), 114, 201–4; kilt-wearing and, 197, 198; literary heritage as, 79, 91(n6); Mennonite, 25, 32; multiple, 41–42; southern White, 112, 117, 124–25; in tobacco farming, 7–8, 38–39, 42–43, 44–51, 53, 54(n12)

masquerade, 12

matriarchy, in films on Brothers Grimm, 83–85

McGhee, Stick, “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-de-o-dee,” 120–22

McKay, Ian, 194

media, 4; on international adoption, 172–73

medieval period: antifeminist writing, 209, 211–12; femininity in, 4, 8; French folklore, 208–9, 213–14; women’s knowledge and beliefs, 215–23; writing vs. oral tradition in, 214–15

memories, as cultural representation, 117–18

Memphis, 112

men, 7, 42, 94, 129; and Great Recession, 39–40; homosocial behavior, 112–13, 125–27, 204–5; rockabilly and, 117, 118–19, 124–25; sexual gaze on, 199–200; Thanksgiving role, 149, 150–51; in tobacco farming, 44–51

Men in Groups (Tiger), 116

Mennonite Heritage Village, 20

Mennonites, 37(n10, n11, n12); boyhood to manhood transition, 31–32; Brommtopp, 11, 13, 17–20, 27–28, 33–36; ethnoracial minorities and, 34–35; gender identity and, 29–31; history of, 22–23; house visiting (faspa), 26–27, 37(n13); in Manitoba, 21–22, 23–25

men of color, invisibility of, 7

merry tartanism, 194

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love (Xinran), 183

metaphors, animal, 10

Middle Ages. See medieval period

middle class, 125

midwives, 215

migration, 110. See also immigration

military service, in Russia, 23

mimicry, in dress, 194, 199–200

Ming Dynasty, 246

Minghun, 251

minstrelsey, blackface, 119

Miracle de la fille d’un roy, 58

misogyny, 212; and homophobia, 114, 128

Miss Drumstickz pageant, 161–62, 170(n15)

mockery, Distaff Gospels as, 208–9

modernization, in rural areas, 143

modesty, in Mennonite society, 22–23

Møller, Lisbeth, 236

Money, John, on sex/gender identity, 62, 72(n20)

moral hierarchy, of international adoption, 179–80

morality, in adoption, 185–86

mothers, birth, 183–85, 190(n2, n5)

Motion Picture Association of America Ratings Board, and Thanksgiving, 167

Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (Beeton), 151

Mullen, Patrick, 48

mumming, mummering, 3, 16–17, 37(n3)

Murat, Henriette Julie de, “The Savage,” 63

music, 3, 120, 194; American vernacular, 118–19, 127, 128. See also songs

music video, I Want to Stuff You, 163

Myers, Mike, Scottish characters, 196

“My Uncle from Condom” (Bladé), 8; Cazaux’s telling of, 137–41, 143, 146

Napoleonic period, 143

nationalism, German, 76–77

nature, 105, 107

Nazi occupation, of Denmark and Netherlands, 228–29

necromancers, 245

Nerval, Gérard de, 136

Netherlands, and Denmark, 228–29

Neubergthal (Manitoba), 20

New Brunswick, men-only clubs, 7

Newfoundland: Christmas mumming, 16–17; fishermen, 42, 45; pipe bands in, 193, 194–95, 196

New Year’s Eve, Brommtopp performances, 17–18, 20

Noonan, Emily, 180

North Atlantic, 95

North Carolina, 44

nostalgia, 131, 194; for place, 98, 106, 134, 143; for tobacco men, 48–49

Nova Scotia, 33, 194, 196

Nye, Robert, 135

Olsen Gang on the Track, The (film), 226

omens, 245

Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (film), 76, 88; themes in, 80–84

Ondine (film), 10, 95, 96, 104; identity in, 105–6; immigration in, 107–8; rescue from other in, 109–10; selkie lore in, 98–99; themes of, 99–101, 106–7

oral tradition, orality: authenticity and, 92(n14), 134; as feminized, 75, 78, 79, 91(n6); vs. writing, 211, 214–15

Osre, 58

other, otherness, 75, 101, 176, 227, 252; mimicry of, 199–200; rescue from, 109–10; of women, 93–94, 250–51

“Otherworld,” Celtic, 98

Outer Hebrides, 97

Pal, George, 76, 80

Papachristophorou, Mariléna, on “Shift of Sex” story, 64

parenthood, 8

parents. See adoptive parents/families; birth parents/families

Paris Manuscript (Distaff Gospels), 208, 212, 215

parody, 196

pastoralism, nostalgia for, 106

patriarchy, 1, 94, 206; Grimm brothers’ work, 79, 84; of Thanksgiving, 149–54, 162–63, 168

Paupert, Anne, Les fileuses et le clerc, 212–13

peasants, 131, 133, 213–14, 231

“Peg Bearskin” (ATU 711), 64

people of color, employment and, 40

People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend, The (Thomson), 96–97

performance, 12, 132, 133, 144, 196; African American, 118–19; Amager Dutch, 230; at borders, 107; Brommtopp, 25, 26, 27–28, 33–36; of gender, 6, 42, 43–44, 59–60, 90(n2), 154; of masculinity, 45, 53, 201–4; Thanksgiving as, 149–55; of tobacco men, 48–49, 53, 54(n8); turkey-carving ritual, 150–55

Perkins, Carl, 112, 120, 123–24

Perrault, Charles, 60

personal experience narrative, 3, 118

phallus, 94, 168, 170(n8); female possession of, 61, 67, 72(n19); Thanksgiving symbols of, 159, 160, 166–67

Phillips, Sam, 112, 120

photoshops, and cyber humor, 191–92

Picardy, folklore in, 211, 213

Pind, Søren, 242

pipe bands, 4, 5, 11, 12, 205; kilt wearing in, 196–97, 203–4; in Newfoundland, 193, 194–95; women’s, 197–98

Pittman, Barbara, 118

place, 255; in legends, 142–43; nostalgia for, 98, 106, 134

Pleck, Elizabeth, 149

Plum Coulee (Manitoba), 19, 20

popular culture, 1, 4, 10, 131

portents, 245

poultry farming, commercial, 25

Pour Some Gravy on Me (video), 162, 162–63, 168

Power, Nicole, 42, 45

Pratt, Mary Louise, 107

Presley, Elvis, 112, 119, 120, 123

priests: misbehavior of, 212, 216, 220

Princess Ch’in-nü, 252, 253, 255

“Princess of Sui-yang and Scholar T’an” (Tale 396), 254–56, 257

property, women’s dowers, 217

Prussia, 19; Mennonites in, 22–23

Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender and Power in Modern America, The (Lunbeck), 122

Qing Dynasty, 246

Qingshi (Feng), 250

queer, 10, 75, 79

queering, 32

queerness, of Grimm brothers, 75, 79

queer studies, 10, 11

race, 15(n16), 173; and Brommtopp performances, 35–36; marginalization of, 34–35; theatrical representation of, 12–13

Raisch, Roger, 156

Ray, Celeste, 204

recession, and gendered employment, 39–40

recipes, Thanksgiving, 150

Red Cross Center, asylum seekers, 241–42

remedies, 209

Rempel family, 26, 27

repetition compulsion, 168

resistance, Scottish, 193

Revel, Jacques, 131

revival, 37(n8); Brommtopp, 20, 29

rhythm and blues, 112, 115, 119, 120

Rich, Adrienne, 113

Ridee, Marotte, 220

Rieder, John, 106

rites of passage, homosocial, 114

Robidoux, Michael A., 114–15

rockabilly, 7, 112, 116, 124–25; and R & B hits, 120–22; White teenage boys, 119–20; women and, 122–23

rock ‘n’ roll bars, homosocial environment of, 126–27

Rock n Roll Trio, 121

Rockwell, Norman, 4; Freedom from Want, 148, 149, 168

Rodgers, Jimmie, 119

Rodriguez, Robert, Grindhouse, 10

roles, Brommtopp, 18, 27–28

romance, 246; Chinese ghost wife, 257–58; Icelandic gender roles, 104–5

Roman de Silence, 58

romanticism, 131; and authenticity, 133–34

Roth, Eli, Thanksgiving, 165, 165–67, 171(n19)

Rotundo, E. Anthony, passionate manhood, 116–17

royal family, Danish, 227

rural communities, rural culture, 5, 131, 143; in Distaff Gospels, 213–14

Russia, 179; Mennonites in, 22, 23

Sachs, Dana, 183

sacrifice, Thanksgiving turkey as, 167–68

St. John’s, pipe band, 193, 194–95

Salles-Loustau, Jean, 136

salon women, 60

Salvation of Yasch Siemens, The (Wiebe), 29–30

Sanjek, David, 118

“Savage, The” (Murat), 63

Savoir faire: Une analyze des croyances des “Evangiles des quenouilles” (Jeay), 211, 212

sayings, medieval French, 209, 218–20

Sayles, John, The Secret of Roan Inish, 98

schools, in Manitoba, 23–25

Schroeder, Jac, 24, 26

Schutte, Ofelia, 176

Scotland, selkie stories, 95, 98

Scots, 195

Scott, Walter, 194

Scottish Isles, 95

Scottishness, 193–94

Scotts Miracle-Gro, 196

seal folk, 107; in Ondine, 100, 101; stories of, 94, 95, 96–97, 98, 105, 110(n2). See also selkies

“Sealskin, The,” 94

Seal Woman (Eggerz), 10, 95, 96, 101, 109; gender roles in, 103–4; identity theme in, 102–3; immigration theme, 107–8; themes of, 102–5, 106–7

seasonal cycle, 143–44

Sebile des Mares, 216

Sébillot, Paul, 224(n12); Le Folk-lore de France, 211, 212

Secret Burial Classic of the Great Han Dynasty, The, 252

Secret of Roan Inish, The (film), 98, 99, 110(n5)

Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, The (Fry), 98

secrets, family, 97

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 115, 256; Between Men, 112–13; on homosocial continuum, 113–14, 256

Seifert, Lewis C., 70

self-development, “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 60–61

self-representation, 13

selkies, 107, 109; legends/narratives of, 4, 10, 95, 105, 111(n7). See seal folk

sense of place, gendered, 143

sense of time, cyclical, 143–44

“sept belles demoiselles, Les” (“The Seven Beautiful Fairies”), 142, 143

Sereine, 136

“Seven Beautiful Fairies, The.” See “sept belles demoiselles, Les”

sex, 2, 6–7, 56, 245, 253; changes in, 63–70; Chinese, 256–57; medieval French writing on, 209–10, 218–23; patriarchal fantasy of, 162–63; turkey, 9–10, 170–71(n16)

sex change, in fairy and folk tales, 63–70, 73(n27)

sex/gender systems, 9; in fairy tales, 63–64, 248, 253

sexual agency, Mennonite, 30–31

sexual appetites, women’s, 214, 215–16

sexual gaze, kilt wearers and, 199–200

sexuality, sexualization, 2, 4, 114, 119, 214, 246; Chinese, 256–57; in Distaff Gospels, 218–19; Grimm brothers’, 75–76; kilt wearing and, 197–201, 202–3, 204; Mennonite, 30–31; and self-development, 60–61; turkey, 4, 9–10, 155–65, 168; and violence, 166–67; of widows, 215–16

sexual orientation, in fairy tales, 59–63

Shetland Islands, 96

“Shift of Sex, The” (ATU 514), 57, 58, 63, 73(n26, n31); transsexuality in, 67–70; versions of, 64–67

Shit Island. See Amager Island

shorelines, interactions on, 107

Shuman, Amy, 48, 176

Sid King and the Five Strings, 121

Sieg, Katrin, ethnic drag, 194, 230

Sigur Rós, 100

silence/silencing, subaltern, 105

“sirènes, Les,” 142

Six Dynasties, 257; zhiguai tales, 244–45, 246, 247, 251

“Slipping Around” (Tillman), 116

Slotkin, Richard, 154, 168

“Snow White,” 98

social bonds, same sex, 113

social change, and seal legends, 96–97

social duties, 107

social order: and “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 59–60

social relationships, Mennonite, 30–31

social roles, 60

social status, 256, 257

socioeconomic class, 257; and American vernacular music, 118–19; and homosocial behavior, 125–27; and masculinity, 145–46

So I Married an Axe Murderer (film), 196

Song Dynasty, 246

songs, 3, 112, 163, 171(n17), 202; Brommtopp, 33, 35, 37(n18); cheating, 115–16; and cultural representations, 117–18; trans imagination in, 56–57

Sophie Amalie, Queen, 227

Sou shen ji, 244–45, 246; female ghosts in, 248–50, 252, 254–56

Soviet Union, 108

So You’re Going to Wear a Kilt!, 201

spinning, 209, 224(n5)

spirits, and seasonal cycle, 143

Spivak, Gayatri C., 105

Steed, Virgil, 45

Steinbach (Manitoba), 20

stereotyping, 226; Scottish, 195–96

Store Magleby, 226, 227, 231, 237, 238, 240; Amager Dutch costumes in, 236, 239

stories: adopted childrens’, 181–82; adoptive parents’, 179–81; birth family, 182–86; parent-to-parent, 178–79

storytellers, 97, 247–48; female, 78, 79–80; male, 129, 130

storytelling, 78; context of, 177–78, 185–86

Stove-side Conversations—The Meal Across Cultures, 241

Straparola, Giovan Francesco, “Constanza/Constanzo,” 63

subaltern, silencing of, 105

suicide, as Seal Woman theme, 103

Sule Skerry, 101

Sunflower Festival, 20

Sun Records, 112

supernatural beings, in French legends, 143–44

superstitions, 131, 212, 224(n13)

Sustrac, Catherine, 136

Sweeney, Sean, 96

symbolism, Thanksgiving, 150, 151

taboos, animal, 10

Tale 395, Sou shen ji, 248–49

Tale 396, Sou shen ji, 254–56

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 214

Tang Dynasties, 246

Tangherlini, Timothy, 141

Tannen, Deborah, 177–78

Tarantino, Quentin, Grindhouse, 10

teenage boys, homosociality of, 119–20

Tennant, Andy, 76

“Tennessee Saturday Night” (Foley), 120

texts, 3; definition of, 4–5

Thanksgiving, 5, 169–70(n6, n12); as contested ritual, 151–52; division of labor in, 149–50, 169(n3); ideology of, 148–49, 170(n11); as sacrificial ritual, 167–68; sexuality of, 158–60, 169(n5); turkey-carving ritual, 150–51, 152–55; violence of, 165–68

Thanksgiving (Currin), 160–61

Thanksgiving (film trailer), 165–67, 168, 171(n18, n19)

theater, representation of race, 12–13

“Thirteen Flies, The.” See “treize mouches, Les”

Thompson, Stith, 57, 58

Thomson, David, The People of the Sea, 96–97

“Three Crowns, The” (Basile), 63

Thurah, Laurids de, 232

Tiger, Lionel, Men in Groups, 116

Tillman, Floyd, “Slipping Around,” 116

time, seasonal cycle and, 143–44

Titon, Jeff Todd, 118

tobacco production, 5, 6, 7–8, 38–39, 54–55(n10, 11, 13); diversification and, 51–52; masculinities of, 42–48, 54(n12); nostalgia in, 48–51; women and, 52–53, 55(n15)

tobacco men, 7, 45–46, 52, 54(n8); idealized view of, 48–49

tobacco warehouses, 49

tradition(s), 1, 5, 42, 132, 133; gendering of, 52–53, 55(n16)

traditionnistes, 131

transbiology, 9–10

Transeline du Croq, 216, 220

transethnicity, 20

transgender, 10–11, 20, 56; in Brommtopp performances, 29–31; in fairy tales, 57, 61, 68–69; in folktales, 4, 67–68

transphobia, 69

transracial identity, 20

transsexual imagination, 56; in fairy tales, 57, 64, 69–70

transsexuality, 4, 57, 64–65; in “Shift of Sex” tale, 68–70

transvestites, 56

“treize mouches, Les” (“The Thirteen Flies”), 145

trickery, in Brommtopp performances, 30

turkey, 4, 151, 170(n11), 171(n17, n21); as fetish, 164–65; mating behavior of, 155–58, 170(n9); sacrifice of, 167–68; sexuality, 9–10, 158–65, 170–71(n16)

turkey-carving ritual: patriarchal prerogative of, 150–51, 152–55; violence of, 165–67

turkey hooker, 163–65, 164

“Turkey Man, The” (blog), 164–65

Turkey Trot Festival (Yellville, Arkansas), 161–62

unemployment, Great Recession, 40

UNICEF, and international adoption, 174–75

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8, 173, 174–75

upper-middle class, and violence, 125–26

vegetable production, Dutch, 231

Vietnam, 183

violence: in honky-tonks, 123–24; and socioeconomic class, 125–26; of Thanksgiving, 154, 165–68

Visser, Margaret, 150

voyeurism, 82

wage market, Mennonites in, 24–25

Walker, Margaret Urban, ethics of responsibility, 175, 180–81, 186

Wallendorf, Melanie, 149–50

Warner, Marina, 70–71

warriors, women, 65–66, 68, 72(n17)

water, femininity of, 99

Watts, Trent, 114, 117

Wayne, Elsie, 7

Weber, Eugen, 143

websites: and cyber humor, 191–93; Welcome?, 241. See also blogs

Welcome? project, 240–41

West, Simon, 191, 192, 196, 203, 205, 206

West Cork, 98

West Reserve (Manitoba), 20, 22, 23

West Zhou Dynasty, 251

Wetherell, Margaret, 202

What’s Cooking? (film by Chadha), 148–49; sexuality in, 158–60

Whiteley, Sheila, 118

White men, 7; emulation of Black performance style, 118–19; masculinity, 112, 117; rockabilly and, 124–25

Whiteness, 12, 124

widows, sexuality of, 215–16

Wiebe, Armin, The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, 29–30

Wieder, Ane Mette, 238–39

Williams, Hank, 120; “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” 116

Williamson, Duncan, 97

wish fulfilment, fairy tale, 256

witchcraft, 84–85, 216

womanhood, idealized, 258

women, 4, 30, 42, 90–91(n3), 101, 102, 103, 114, 118, 127, 129, 147(n10), 213, 259; in “Belle Belle or the Knight Fortuné,” 58–63; and Brommtopp, 27–28; cross-dressing, 57, 58–67; in Distaff Gospels, 213–14, 216–23; elderly, 208–9; exclusion of, 122–23; and Great Recession, 39–40; immigration, 107–8; as meat, 162–64; otherness of, 93–94, 250–51; sexual appetites of, 215–16; sexual humor of, 199–200; silencing of, 104, 105; as storytellers, 78, 79–80; Thanksgiving role, 149–50; in tobacco farming, 44, 45, 52–53, 54(n12), 55(n15); turkey symbolism and, 162–64. See also ghost princess/wife

Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (film), 76; themes in, 77–80

wonder tales, 57

work, 54(n4, n9); in tobacco farming, 47–48

working class, 42, 118, 126

World War II, 102, 108

Worth 1000, 192

writing, vs. oral tradition, 214–15

Wynkyn de Worde, 210

Xinran, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, 183

yang/yang qi, 246, 258; as male, 250–51

yearly cycle, 143

Yelvington, Malcolm, 121, 122

yin-yang, 246, 250–51, 252, 253, 258

yin/yin qi, 246, 258; as female, 250–51

Yngvesson, Barbara, 183–84

Youhun, 251

“Young Woman Disguised as a Man Is Wooed by the Queen, A,” 58

“Your Cheatin’ Heart” (Williams), 116

YouTube videos: kilt-wearing parodies, 202; Pour Some Gravy on Me, 162, 162–63

Ysengrine du Glay, 215, 216, 217

Yu, Anthony C., 250

Yuan Dynasty, 246; marriage of the dead in, 251

Zealand, 231, 243(n4)

Zeitlin, Judith, 252

Zheng Kangcheng, 251, 259(n4)

zhiguai tales, 244–45; as male tradition, 246–47. See also Sou shen ji

Zipes, Jack, 63; on Grimm brothers, 76, 90

Zuerner, Adrienne E., 60

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