Folklore & Mythology

Lewis Island in Lambertville, New Jersey, is the site of the Lewis Fishery, the last haul seine American shad fishery on the nontidal Delaware River. The Lewis family has fished in the same spot since 1888 and operated the fishery through five...

Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks--and, for that matter, people throughout the South--buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786463473Author H. Arlo NimmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 350g

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling...

From Mothman to the Mongolian Death Worm, Shellycoat to Simurgh, Nessie to even Ningyo, this charming and creative collection of cryptids will fascinate readers for years to come.Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters and Mythosfrom Around...

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671671686Author Linda GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to...

Texas, the 1930s-the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Americo Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087915494Author Craig TitleyFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint 1 Habit PressPublisher 1 Habit PressWeight(grams) 127g

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer,...

A brief, accessible introduction to the role of myth historically and in popular culture.About the AuthorWilliam G. Doty is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies at The University of Alabama. His many books include Myths of Masculinity...

Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of science fiction into the realm of everyday life, and scholars and laypeople alike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996135559Author Keith KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Keith KellyPublisher Keith KellyWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865165564Author Thomas HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.

Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North Carolina's continually changing folklife. From decoy carving...

Expertly translated from the Yiddish by award-winning author and translator Curt Leviant, this edition features the fables printed in both English and Yiddish.Book InformationISBN 9780815607182Author Eliezer ShtaynbargFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint...

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This volume contains some 50 diverse and unusual accounts of serpents from cultures across time and around the globe. Many selections are drawn from the rich oral traditions of peoples in every clime that supports reptiles, from North America to Africa...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902616537Author Jo FortyFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Parkgate Books Ltd.Publisher Parkgate Books Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806996042Author John MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Sterling Publishing (NY)Publisher Sterling Publishing (NY)Weight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569801239Author Tom Te-Wu MaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 180g

"...[T]ells a wonderful story, one much loved in northern India...fills an important lacuna in the work on oral epic." -Lindsey Harlan Dhola is an oral epic performed primarily by lower-caste, usually illiterate, men in the Braj region of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907732782Author Ellie AdelFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Melrose BooksPublisher Melrose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933029903Author Murray SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 11mm

Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816514526Author Elsie Clews ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

What is folk culture? What distinguishes true folk creations from the cultural hybrids of commerce and popular innovation? To clarify this muddled situation and to provide clear standards and visual examples for the study and appreciation of a broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986885921Author Linda FoubisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Spirrea PublishingPublisher Spirrea PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Both a fun-filled and factual rendering of America's gold rush days. -- BookworldBook InformationISBN 9780872496583Author Nancy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865344037Author Richard McCordFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 188g

From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two...

"A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?' She thought for a few minutes, then said, 'What was that...

With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615797359Author Kate WolfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint World Weaver PressPublisher World Weaver PressWeight(grams) 222g

The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age...

This book contains two volumes of African American folk tales collected by J. Mason Brewer. The stories included in Dog Ghosts are as varied as the Texas landscape, as full of contrasts as Texas weather. Among them are tales that have their roots deeply...

The stories in this book will provide entertainment for everyone and evoke wonder in the most jaded observer of the human condition. Some of the exploits that Fred D. Cavinder describes are half-hidden footnotes to national and international happenings...