Special Constructing Folklife and Negotiating the Nation(al): The Smithsonian Folklife Festival edited by Heather A. Diamond and Ricardo D. Trimillos. Articles include Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Smithsonian Folklife Festival by Heather A. Diamond and Ricardo D. Trimillos; Imagining Home, Nation, Appalachia on the Mall by Emily Satterwhite; A Sense of Mapping Hawai'i on the National Mall by Heather A. Diamond; Histories, Resistances, and Reconciliations in a Decolonizable the Philippine Delegation to the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival by Ricardo D. Trimillos; Performing the Predicaments of National the Art Politics of the Tuareg Ensemble Tartit at the 2003 Folklife Festival by Jay Straker; Beyond Tarzan and National The Politics and Poetics of Presenting African Diasporic Cultures on the Mall by Krista A. Thompson.