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Book Reviews 363 S ome of the storytellers Wu describes em en - ces of folk artists themselves. Through clear body “ambiguous identit[ies]” (p. 104) and are historical narration and critical analysis of ma- also involved in palm reading and other rituja ol r hi - storical events, figures, influential organi- istic practices—a connection that nicely segues zatio ns, publications, collections, and artwork to the final chapter on northern Shaanxi spird it uring the periol du , fkin addresses the am - mediums (wushen). b uilding on recent scho - lar bivalence toward folk art in the discourse of ship on folk/popular religio c n hin in a, chapter modern culture. She explores how folk art was 5 sees such local belief practices as “a new for re mw orked by modern intellectuals who inte- of rural discourse” (p. 125) that offers loc ga ra l ted it into modern art creations for t - he pur people a semi- public space within which t -o ar pose of serving social, cultural, and political ticulate their problems. Wu views the recen dem t ands. resurgence of these local beliefs as connec ted Th e author sets out the ambivalence
Journal of American Folklore – American Folklore Society
Published: Jul 22, 2017
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