Folklore & Mythology

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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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996426145Author Ken CoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Groundwaters Publishing, LLCPublisher Groundwaters Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 268g

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print...

"More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa-funny and fantastic yarns and anecdotes of pioneer vintage that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692773635Author Lynne CantwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hearth/MythPublisher Hearth/MythWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615394961Author Dennis W BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Library of Early Maine LiteraturePublisher Library of Early Maine...

In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the...

Collected here are the timeless Native American fables and legends handed down by noted Seneca anthropologist Arthur C. Parker. Growing up on the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in western New York, Parker knew the importance of the storyteller in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815601609Author Harold ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

This is a seminal study of the politics of culture. In the American imagination, 'Appalachia' designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished...

This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by...

The ""Jack"" known to all of us from ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight...

When Water Monster caused the Great Flood, the thirty-two clans of the First People left their pleasant lands and migrated to the present world through an enormous hollow reed. In this marvellous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many tales...

These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.Book InformationISBN 9780826321954Author Johnny PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of New...