Folklore & Mythology

The harp, the shamrock, the Claddagh ring, St Patrick, Round towers, turf, Aran jumpers, The Giant's Causeway, Newgrange, Croke Park. An illustrated guide to the symbols, places, treasures, famous figures and mythical creatures of the Emerald Isle.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995778429Author Anne Massey O'ReganFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Beul Aithris PublishingPublisher Beul Aithris PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for...

This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987559883Author Don ArpFormat PaperbackImprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 82g

African cults and religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. Politics, art, and civil events such as weddings, funerals, festivals and carnivals all possess distinctly Afro-Cuban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824805142Author Martha Warren BeckwithFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams)...

By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore...

It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories-from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692117774Author Craig DurhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Craig DurhamPublisher Craig DurhamWeight(grams) 150g

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Seton Gordon was only a boy when he began exploring the Cairngorms, fascinated by its wildlife and seeking to photograph all he saw - he later became a pioneer naturalist, photographer and folklorist. He wrote about the land that is Scotland, her flora...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615270388Author Craig ChalquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint World SoulPublisher World SoulWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210903Author Beatrice WeinreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340634Author Benson SalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686164Author Ronesa AveelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Bendideia PublishingPublisher Bendideia PublishingWeight(grams) 540g

Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566322Author Sandra BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition,...

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap...

Legend and BeliefDialectics of a Folklore GenreLinda DeghAn acclaimed folklorist asks "What is legend?"Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western...

The growing economic and political influence of Native American tribes has brought religious issues, once little noted, increasingly to the fore. Timeless in their basic structures, the continent's principal myths are now emerging as sacred histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523831Author David FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486263663Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 862g

An accessible, concise reference source on Polynesia's complex mythology, product of a culture little known outside its home. Encounters with the West introduced Polynesian mythology to the world-and sealed its fate as a casualty of colonialism. But for...

Meet the supreme Gautama Buddha, the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa, and Chang O-the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon. Journey to the sacred Cambodian ruins of Angkor and golden Mount Meru, home of the Hindu gods. Discover myths like the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953934239Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in...

In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein-folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO-tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the...

Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140277715Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

The Welsh Fairy Book is the finest example of Welsh book illustration to have been produced in the ferment of the early twentieth century. Published originally in 1907, the stories collected here were set in prose by the Welsh folklorist W. Jenkyn...

Eason provides an extensive overview of the mythology, legends, and folklore surrounding fabulous and strange fantasy creatures from diffferent lands and ages, from Chinese dragons and the Native North American thunderbird to the demon hounds of Celtic...

""This monumental work has now become... the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars."" -- Southern Folklore Quarterly""A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection."" --...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856306366Author Gregory McNameeFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 166g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368419Author Marie TrevelyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968552Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486420820Author Hamilton Wright MabieFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"This introduction to the study of folklore and folklife contains an inspiring and spirited mixture of essays, theoretical contributions, practical instructions, and pure encyclopedia articles. It is a very well put together book, written by eighteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566564182Author Jamal SleemFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc