reviews | 259 Firoz Mahmud, ed., Sharani Zaman, ass. ed., Folklore in Context: Essays in Honor of Shamsuzzaman Khan Dhaka, Bangladesh: Dhaka University Press, 2010. xxvi + 436 pages, b/w photos, index. Hardcover, $13.00/995 Bangladeshi Taka. isbn 978-984-506-013-4. South Asia This festschrift for Shamsuzzaman Khan, one of the most eminent folklorists of Bangladesh, is a collection of thirty-two essays in honor of his seventieth birthday in 2007. The varied topics and the disciplinary background of the authors also re- lect the variety in the format, length, and quality of the single contributions. The editor Firoz Mahmud and the associate editor Sharani Zaman, the eldest daughter of the honoree, have categorized the large number of contributions into thireteen diferent sections. The “Introduction” comprises three essays dedicated to the professional and personal life of Shamsuzzaman Khan written by the editor, the associate editor, and M. Shahinoor Rahman; “Cultural Impact on Civilization” comprises two articles by Amartya Sen and Amalendu De; “Esoteric Folklore Bengal” focuses on contri- butions by David G. Cashin, Lauri Harvilahti, and Syed Jamil Ahmed; and “Oral History and Discourse in Folklore” and “Folk Literature” each contain two essays concerning diferent regions by Margaret A. Mills and Jawaharlal Handoo, and Ülo Valk and Nabaneeta Dev Sen respectively; and “Jewish Folklore” contains only one essay written jointly by Dan Ben-Amos and Div Noy. The seven articles in the following three sections—“Urban Folkore,” “Performance in Folklore,” and “Folk Culture”—deal exclusively with topics concerning South Asia and are by Soumen Sen, Abhi Subedi, Christina Nygen, Sudipto Chatterjee, Frank J. Korom, Nihal Rodrigo, and Sitakant Mahapatra. And while section ten, “Folklife,” contains two