Folklore & Mythology

Designed as a resource for artists, writers, and behavioral scientists, this compilation of the myths and symbols of old age lists more than 400 entries ranging from Abraham and acacia through Zorya and Zurvan. Coverage includes traditional mythical...

The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to earn his or her place in the world. This international collection of stories...

In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume ex-Soviets in...

Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these...

Religion among the Folk in Egypt seeks to structure the entire field of supernatural beliefs and related practices in the folk communities of Egypt. These beliefs constitute a cognitive system on the one hand and represent behavioral experiences felt,...

The Greek and Roman world is often noted for the rationalism of a few outstanding thinkers. This book is about the traditional superstitions, beliefs, taboos, folk-remedies, ghost stories, and folk tales that haunted the rest. Along the way it considers...

First published in 1929, John R. Swanton's Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in...

This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practised by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and...

German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864160Author Bartlett Jere WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 724Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1347g

The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture that flourished within the trade union and political movements in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. Jewish immigrant activists-socialists, communists, anarchists, and labor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802213013Author Edwin RadfordFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 495g

Dictionary of Chicano Folklore charts the rich religious, social, artistic, and cultural heritage of Mexican Americans, who continue to evolve the customs and rituals connected to their Spanish and indigenous roots and the Spanish language. Entries cover...

Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among its inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women,...

The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. The current interest in mythology has made evident how the classic hero's journey represents a theme not only common to all the world's myths, but also our own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955903717Author Gavin WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Solaria PublicationsPublisher Solaria PublicationsWeight(grams) 351g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954503734Author Chris Dahi OnuchukwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers...

Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an...

African Americans of the South have long had a rich tradition of folklore and customs, many of which predate the Civil War. Some of these beliefs originated in the South, while others have their roots in voodoo and African religions. But with the end of...

In every land, various traditions, customs, and legends have developed around food. And because these diverse traditions are central to the multicultural character of the United States, ethnic foodlore permeates American society. From early Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990703136Author James BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint GoldenaerPublisher GoldenaerWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published...

People have been attracted to the lure of distant, exotic places throughout the ages, and over the centuries a vast store of legends and lore relating to travel have grown up. This encyclopedia represents a complilation of travel legends and lore of...

Drawing upon the traditions of their native lands, Asian Americans have developed an extensive cultural tradition. At the heart of that tradition are some of the world's most colorful folktales. These reflect the traditional beliefs of the East, as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971412736Author Qiron AdhikaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Masalai PressPublisher Masalai PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480873759Author Hartzell CobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 245g

First published in 1904, George A. Dorsey's Mythology of the Wichita is a rich collection of American Indian folklore. WIth the help of a Wichita interpreter, Dorsey gathered sixty tales from the Wichitas living in Oklahoma and arranged them according to...

From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. Such sayings as ""Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don't care for black,"" ""The blacker the berry, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755909Author W D WesterveltFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered ""truths"" at a key moment in the history of ideas. How male medical...

The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. The current interest in mythology has made evident how the classic hero's journey represents a theme not only common to all the world's myths, but also our own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755398Author Grenville PigottFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

This book combines historical biography with a focus on the role of the practitioner in the folk health-care system, and ethnobotany, including a description of the active ingredients of the herbs used in African American herbal medicine. The...

Codeswitching may be broadly defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African context, Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the...

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824602338Author David Max EichornFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 943g

The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country's many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents these tales - gathered from the early settlers of the kibbutz, from immigrants who arrived in Israel after...

Must a folktale be connected to its culture? Can a tale with universal applications be transmitted from one culture to another without loss? Does a teller from one culture have the ability--or even the right--to relate a tale from another culture? What...

This study refutes both the Western dominant paradigm of modernity and the Eurocentric stereotype of traditional Muslim culture, and demonstrates that rural Egyptians have their own paradigm of secular modernism that does not negate religious or sacred...