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The Little Book of Folklore: An Introduction to Ancient Myths and Legends of the UK and Ireland by Kitty Greenbrown 9781837993215
RRP: $16.78$11.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller by John D. Niles 9781496841575
RRP: $228.90$185.79Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson,... -
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts by Chris Goertzen 9781496843746
$71.40What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia... -
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts by Chris Goertzen 9781496843739
$232.93What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia... -
Ancient Symbology in Fantasy Literature: A Psychological Study by William Indick 9780786460397
RRP: $46.18$38.96Archetypal symbols in ancient myths as well as the folktales, nursery stories, and fairytales of the Middle Ages are the blueprints of modern fantasy literature. This book explores the modern dreamscape of present-day fantasy, using the ancient myths and... -
Folklore and Food: Folktales that center on family, food, and down-home cooking by Theresa Bane 9780764342202
RRP: $39.88$25.94History is steeped in wonderful and strange folklore. Here, premier storyteller Cynthia Moore Brown tells 17 old-timey favorites, each one including a special home-style recipe connected to the story. As for the lore, avoid a brush with death in... -
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine (Esprios Classics) by Lewis Spence 9781034553489
RRP: $58.95$40.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034553489Author Lewis SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g -
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad by John Garst 9781476686110
RRP: $60.88$50.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476686110Author John GarstFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan by Benjamin Gatling 9780299316808
RRP: $147.00$139.06This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms-memories, stories, poetry,... -
You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School by Kevin D. Cordi 9781496821249
RRP: $216.30$212.00Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is... -
Scottish Folklore by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781780278476
RRP: $14.68$10.16Scotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation’s greatest writers have been influenced by the country’s abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and... -
Earth and Spirit: Medicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico by Maria Benedetti 9780963344014
RRP: $69.20$51.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963344014Author Maria BenedettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Verde LuzPublisher Verde LuzWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm -
Folktales from Zou Ma: Chinese Cultural Heritage Town of Storytelling by Zhihui Sophia Geng 9781792481253
RRP: $245.70$199.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792481253Author Zhihui Sophia GengFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
Djeha, the North African Trickster by Christa C. Jones 9781496847041
$241.14Djeha-also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations-is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that... -
You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School by Kevin D. Cordi 9781496821256
$69.09Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is... -
The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics by Sadhana Naithani 9781604734553
$207.35In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950... -
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner 9781617038853
$212.00Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream... -
Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century by Shelley Ingram 9781496844361
$71.40Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, Lena Marander-Eklund, Jennifer Morrison, Willow G... -
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young 9781496839473
RRP: $216.30$202.69In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the... -
Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts by Frank de Caro 9781617037641
RRP: $228.90$212.00Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as ""oral tradition""--is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in... -
Why Gone Those Times?: Blackfoot Tales by James Willard Schultz 9780806135458
$40.15James Willard Schultz first encountered the Blackfeet Indians in Montana Territory in 1877, when he was seventeen. In time, he married a Blackfoot woman, formed close friendships with many in the tribe, and lived with them off and on for the next seventy... -
The Meaning of Myth in World Cultures by Michael Buonanno 9780786497126
RRP: $60.88$49.10Mythology--circulated in sacred stories (myths) and their reenactments (rituals)--is the basis of any society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology's meaning depends on the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors... -
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery by Charlie Groth 9781496820365
RRP: $216.30$212.00Lewis 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... -
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery by Charlie Groth 9781496820853
$69.09Lewis 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... -
Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 by Abby Burnett 9781628461114
RRP: $228.90$212.84Before 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,... -
Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawai'i: A History H. Arlo Nimmo 9780786463473
RRP: $31.48$26.36Apologies 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 -
Work Hard and You Shall be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Alan Dundes 9780814324325
RRP: $56.60$47.90Anyone 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... -
Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World by Rachel Quinney 9781524889838
RRP: $33.58$22.01From 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... -
Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe by Ruth Ann Musick 9780813154213
RRP: $79.70$52.40Since 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... -
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling by Linda Goss 9780671671686
$51.14Apologies 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 -
The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends by Theodora Kroeber 9780520246935
RRP: $52.50$51.89Nine 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... -
Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle by William A. Owens 9780292780569
$55.65Texas, 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,... -
The Pacifica Papers - Essays on Pop Culture, Mythology, and Flatulence by Craig Titley 9781087915494
RRP: $65.08$44.10Apologies 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 -
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780878054787
RRP: $73.40$69.93Exploring 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,... -
Myth: A Handbook by William G. Doty 9780817354374
$40.15A 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... -
Posthuman Folklore by Tok Thompson 9781496825087
RRP: $216.30$212.00Can 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... -
Mrenh Gongveal: Chasing the Elves of the Khmer by Keith Kelly 9780996135559
RRP: $73.48$42.78Apologies 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 -
Res Gestae Pilosi Nasonis: Teacher's Guide by Thomas Hayes 9780865165564
$33.68Apologies 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: North Carolina Folklife by Daniel W. Patterson 9780822310211
RRP: $48.28$42.02Arts 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... -
The Jewish Book of Fables: The Selected Works of Eliezer Shtaynbarg by Eliezer Shtaynbarg 9780815607182
RRP: $62.90$44.60Expertly 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...