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  Volume 26
  Fall-Winter 2000
Voices


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Features


8 Mediating between Two Worlds:
The Sonideros of Mexican Youth Dances

by Cathy Ragland
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18 The Farmhouse as Boarding House:
Sharing Values and Sharing Space in the Catskills

by Virginia Scheer
24 "Chawing Chewing Gum"
by Stanley A. Ransom
28 A Body of Art: Beautiful Brides in India
by Pravina Shukla
37 I Do? Northern New York’s Mock Weddings
by Brenda Verardi



Departments and Columns


3 New York Folklore Society News
6 Downstate
by Steve Zeitlin
15 Media Works
by Barry Dornfeld
16 Eye of the Camera
by Martha Cooper
27 Lawyer's Sidebar
by Paul C. Rapp

34 On Air
by Dale W. Johnson

36 Archival Questions
by Karen Taussig-Lux

43 Book Reviews

45 Announcements

47 Obituary
Clarence "Daddy Dick" Richards
by Vaughn Ward
A figure wearing a unicorn head dances on top of exploring firecrackers in New York's Chinatown during the Chinese New Year celebration.
Photo: Martha Cooper

cover photo from chinatown

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