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Re-situating Folklore: Folk Contexts and Twentieth-century ...
F. A. De CaroRe-Situating Folklore offers new ways of conceptualising the methods by which artists use folklore even as it poses questions about the larger issue of why folklore appeals to those outside the groups who actually create and circulate it in ...
Scottish Folklore
Raymond Lamont-BrownThis work provides an A-Z of locations throughout Scotland and the folklore associated with each place. It traces the roots and traditions of Scottish folklore, and discusses recurring themes and influences.
Folklore Feminists Communication
More editionsFrom her perspective as the indexing coordinator of the MIA Folklore Bibliography, Jennifer Schacker-Mill contributes to the discussion. As most of you are well aware, the Folklore volume of the MLA International Bibliography is presently the ...
Folklore Forum
More editionsThus, Jay Mechling's presentation of "Children's Folklore" introduces the psychological approach as well as the concepts of antithetical folklore and the play frame; F.A. DeCaro not only describes "Riddles and Proverbs" but also features ...
The Great Lake Sturgeon
More editionsBlending history, biology, folklore, environmental science, and policy, this accessible book, the first of its kind, seeks to reach a broad audience and tell the story of the Great Lakes lake sturgeon, a fish whose ancestry reaches back ...
The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...
Jean Marie MaguireAutobiographies written by Blasket Islanders, which are great folklore documents, include Tomás O Crohan''s The Islandman, Maurice O''Sullivan''s Twenty Years a- Growing, Micheál O''Guiheen''s It''s a Pity Youth does not Last and Peig Sayer''s, Peig Peig is undoubtedly one of the most influential, and widely-read, Irish books of the twentieth century." Micheál O'' Guiheen, Peig Sayers son, described a visit from the collector Robin Flower, there to gather stories from his mother, one ...
Folklore Matters
Alan DundesThis book is a key work, and should be made compulsory reading in every university in which folkloristics is studied.'-Jon Hnefill Aoalsteinsson, Asian Folklore Studies
Folkloristics: An Introduction
Robert A. Georges"" -- Come-All-Ye This is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available.
Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
Raphael PataiThis multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. . . This is ethnographic scholarship at its best. The multigenre approach is a major contribution, and this rich book should be read by all students of folklore, literature, performance, and South Asia.
Great Gramma Ann's Scrapbook
Lyndon KellyA scrapbook of recipes, remedies and folklore arranged alphabetically.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: G-P
More editionsContains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.
Greasy Cove in Unicoi County: Authentic Folklore
Pat AldermanCombining folklore and bits of history, this delightful book is a unique collection of information about Unicoi County.
Looking In: The Art of Viewing
Mieke BalIn Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
Teaching Children to Write
Pam HodsonIn Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
The great potato book
Meredith Sayles HughesDiscusses many aspects of the nutritious, delicious, versatile potato--its history, usefulness, and folklore, with games, jokes, and rhymes.
My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual
Al GiniIn Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural ...
María Herrera-SobekThis compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. * 300 A-Z entries that describe the myriad topics of Latino folklore * Contributions from distinguished scholars from across the United States * Photographs, ...
Folklore and Legends of Trinidad and Tobago
Gérard A. BessonThe folklore of Trinidad and Tobago has pan-Caribbean appeal, as it is shared in common with many former French territories in the region from Louisiana to Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica and St. Lucia.The beautifully illustrated ...
British Birds: Their Folklore, Names and Literature
Francesca GreenoakSpecies by species, this text delves into this heritage of bird lore, discussing the origin of the bird's name, any regional variations in that name, and any folklore attached to that species.
International P.E.N Bulletin of Selected Books
More editionsNORTHERN IRELAND— IRLANDE DU NORD IV. ulster folklore (Le folklore de l' Ulster), traditional beliefs, customs and tales, by Jeanne Cooper Foster. 142 pages. Belfast, 195 1. H. R. Carter (2 Marcus Ward Street). 10/6. This fascinating ...
The Kirwans of Castlehacket, Co. Galway: history, folklore ...
Ronan LynchAccording to Jeanne Cooper Foster, the story of the battle between the fairy hosts of Ulster and Connacht was known across Ulster." The folklore of recent centuries often has roots in older mythologies: Connacht and Ulster were hereditary ...
The Blacksmith: A Study in Technology, Myth and Folklore
Jeannine Elizabeth TalleyDouglas alan Fisher, The EPio of Steal, New York, 1963. P. 22. 11* A. Popov, " Conseoration Bitual for a Blaoksmith Novioe among the Yakuts," Journal of American Folklore, 46 (1933). 260. 115 , Hans Findeisen, Schamanentum. Stuttgart ...
University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin
University of North Carolina (1793-1962) University extension divisionUniversity of North Carolina (1793-1962) University extension division. The Folklore Council The Folklore Council has been quietly carrying on its work since 1935. Organized to perpetuate and disseminate all phases of folklore it has served ...
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Folklore Society (Great Britain)It concerns a certain John Hunsley, a farmer at the northern end of the parish of Manton, five miles south-west of Brigg, in the Manley wapentake of Lindsey. He is said to have lived in a two-storey, red brick house, lately used as four farm ...
Folklore: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Post-Enlightenment World
Bill IveyIn 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.
Wise Words (RLE Folklore): Essays on the Proverb
Wolfgang MiederThe twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in ...
Wise Words (RLE Folklore): Essays on the Proverb
Wolfgang MiederThe twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in ...
The Great Bear Almanac
Gary BrownProvides detailed information on the evolution, physiology, and behavior of bears, discusses human contacts with bears, bears in religion, folklore, and related matters, and provides data on conservation treaties, organizations interested ...
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