Folklore & Mythology

Listen to this authentic voice from the far land of New Mexico's past. Pull up a chair. Throw away your watch. The author will tell you a story. She was born more than a century ago, and her stories were born centuries before that. Now through the...

In this book about long ago, the author once again ventures onto his natural habitat, the Rio Puerco, and prepares the stage for his beloved Muddy River gente.Book InformationISBN 9780890133231Author Nasario GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint...

The spirit of Xhosa society was enshrined in an oral tradition through which, fiom generations to generation, the community transmitted its customs, values, and norms. The poet and the storyteller stood at the centre of this tradition, as the community's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864864628Author David Lewis-WilliamsPage Count 285Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)...

Ever hear the one about the man who wakes up after a chance sexual encounter to discover he's been involuntarily relieved of one of his kidneys? Or the tiny gift-wrapped box from a recently departed lover that reveals a horrible secret? Everyone knows...

The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book...

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...

Many female figures in recent fiction, film and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. These characters are often identified as heroines and recognized as powerful and progressive pop icons. Some fit the...

"Prose Edda" is a work without predecessor or parallel. It was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings...

All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of...

The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftsmen. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? ...

A new pottery tradition has been developing along the border of northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Despite the fact that this region is not yet an established destination for pottery collectors, Michiana potters are committed to pursuing their craft...

In this important ethnography Ziying You explores the role of the "folk literati" in negotiating, defining, and maintaining local cultural heritage. Expanding on the idea of the elite literati-a widely studied pre-modern Chinese social group, influential...

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...

When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a...

These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the...

In Folklore, Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, argues that the world today is being reshaped by the end of the Enlightenment. In the 18th and 19th century, imperialism and colonialism spread Enlightenment values around...

Originally published in 1885, Italian Popular Tales is a fascinating trove of fairy tales, legends, ghost stories, nursery tales, and jests, and other oral accounts that were collected, recorded, translated, and annotated by Thomas Crane, the first...

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...

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...

Displayed as found!In the pages of history and in the dense undergrowth of human memory, we see glimpses of lurking fantastic beasts. Be honest-haven't you felt them around you? Haven't you been surprised by movement in the corner of your vision? By...

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-17 November 1987.Book InformationISBN 9788774926894Author Mette PorsFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788130700212Author Sir James George FrazerFormat HardbackImprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo PublicationsDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm * 70mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120617971Author E.C.P. HullFormat HardbackPage Count 371Imprint Asian Educational ServicesPublisher Asian Educational Services

Thirty academics, from Ireland, Scotland, England, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and the USA, have joined together to honour Professor Seamas O Cathain, Emeritus Professor of Irish Folklore and former Director of the National Folklore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882376346Author John C WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Thunder Bay Press MichiganPublisher Thunder Bay Press MichiganWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771086998Author Steve VernonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 295g

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences...

Of the many ballads, tales, and plays extolling filial piety ( xiao )--the foundational virtue of imperial China--none was more popular in that era than the legend of Dong Yong and his heavenly helpmate, Weaving Maiden. Continually revised and...

Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch...

Contributions from Robert Baron, Edith Bills, Dee Britton, Varick Chittenden, Lynn Case Ekfelt, Valerie Feschet, Ryn Gargulinski, Curtis Harris, Gus Hedlund, Dale W. Johnson, Kay Kennedy, Leota Lone Dog, Elena Martinez, Karen M. McCurdy, Ellen McHale,...

The zombie apocalypse hasn't happened-yet-but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805050254Author Charis MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805050247Author Charis MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

"When I moved to northern New Mexico thirty-three years ago," writes John Nichols, "I immediately fell in with my neighbours and commenced laughing". As folklorist Nasario Garcia explains in his introduction to this collection,...

The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike are the two major works of classical Japanese prose. The complete versions of both works are too long to be taught in one term, and this abridgement answers the need for a one-volume edition of both works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140609Author Dr. Homayoon AramFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874836660Author Pleasant DeSpainFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint August House PublishersPublisher August House PublishersWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874836691Author Pleasant DeSpainFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint August House PublishersPublisher August House PublishersWeight(grams) 204g