作者介紹
作者介紹 Jesse A. Fivecoate, a folklorist and sociocultural anthropologist with a PhD from Indiana University, studies the use of communal belief narratives that circulate within a group as a way of remembering and discussing episodes of conflict and crisis. He is a coeditor of Advancing Folkloristics. Andrea Kitta is a folklorist and a professor of multicultural and transnational literature in the Department of English at East Carolina University. She is the author of Vaccinations and Public Concern in History: Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception and The Kiss of Death: Contamination, Contagion, and Folklore as well as a coeditor of Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Health, Trauma, and Disability. Contributors: Matthew D. Atkinson, John Bodner, Ian Brodie, Darin DeWitt, Bill Ellis, Jesse A. Fivecoate, Sandra Grady, David Guignion, Pavan Holur, Andrea Kitta, Afsane Rezaei, Vwani Roychowdhury, Lisa M. Ruch, Shadi Shahsavari, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Jeannie Banks Thomas, Anika Wilson