Month: April 2018

By Graham Anderson

ISBN-10: 0313054088

ISBN-13: 9780313054082

ISBN-10: 0313335753

ISBN-13: 9780313335754

The Greek and Roman global is usually famous for the rationalism of some striking thinkers. This ebook is set the conventional superstitions, ideals, taboos, folk-remedies, ghost tales, and people stories that haunted the remainder. alongside how it considers such questions as, Do glossy ways support or prevent our makes an attempt to work out old superstition from the interior? will we holiday down the limitations among people stories and myths? Did it actually matter even if a therapeutic herb was once picked by way of moonlight or now not? used to be there a Cinderella story within the old world?The quantity starts off via asking how we will try and outline folklore within the first position, and the way we will be able to make experience of the huge volume of fabrics on hand. It examines the prejudices of writers who record folkloric info and explores the cultural contexts that formed their fabrics. It comprises a variety of examples and texts, reminiscent of stories, legends, proverbs, jokes, riddles, and conventional customs. the amount overviews serious techniques to the research of old folklore, and it surveys the presence of Greek and Roman folklore in classical tradition. as a result of great curiosity within the old global, this quantity will meet the desires of highschool scholars and common readers.

By Robert Baron, Ana C. Cara

ISBN-10: 1617031062

ISBN-13: 9781617031069

ISBN-10: 1617031070

ISBN-13: 9781617031076

Worldwide in scope and multidisciplinary in process, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive varieties and performances that come into being while cultures come upon each other. Creolization is gifted as a strong marker of identification within the postcolonial creole societies of Latin the United States, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean quarter, in addition to a common strategy that may happen anyplace cultures come into contact.An awesome variety of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern usa, Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Suriname, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone are mentioned in those essays. Drawing from the disciplines of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary stories, historical past, and fabric tradition stories, essayists deal with theoretical dimensions of creolization and current in-depth box experiences. themes comprise variations of the Gombe drum over the process its migration from Jamaica to West Africa; makes use of of "ritual piracy" keen on the appropriation of Catholic symbols through Puerto Rican brujos; the subversion of authentic tradition and authority via playful and combative use of "creole speak" in Argentine literature and verbal arts; the mislabeling and trivialization ("toy blindness") of gadgets appropriated by way of African american citizens within the American South; the strategic use of creole suggestions between storytellers in the islands of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized personality of recent Orleans and its tune. within the introductory essay the editors handle either neighborhood and common dimensions of creolization and argue for the centrality of its expressive manifestations for creolization scholarship.

By Anton Treuer

ISBN-10: 0873514041

ISBN-13: 9780873514040

A language consists of a people's thoughts, whether or not they are stated as person recollections, as communal heritage, or as funny stories. This choice of tales from Anishinaabe elders bargains a historical past of a humans whilst that it seeks to maintain the language of that folks. in response to interviews Treuer performed with ten elders this anthol-ogy offers the elders' tales transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on dealing with pages. those tales include a wealth of data, together with oral histories of the Anishinaabe humans and private recollections, academic stories, and funny anecdotes. Treuer's translations of those tales look after the audio system' personalities, permitting their voices to emerge from the web page. Treuer introduces every one speaker, supplying a quick biography and noting very important info relating dialect or topics; he then permits the tales to talk for themselves. This dual-language textual content will turn out instructive for these drawn to Ojibwe language and tradition, whereas the tales themselves supply the present of a residing language and the historical past of a humans.

By Gregory Shushan

ISBN-10: 0826440738

ISBN-13: 9780826440730

ISBN-10: 1441188126

ISBN-13: 9781441188120

By James Weigel

ISBN-10: 0822014858

ISBN-13: 9780822014850

The CliffsNotes learn advisor on Mythology supplementations the unique literary paintings, supplying you with historical past information regarding the writer, an creation to the paintings, a graphical personality map, serious commentaries, elevated glossaries, and a complete index, taken with you to exploit as a tutorial software that would let you greater comprehend the paintings. This research consultant used to be written with the belief that you've got learn Mythology. analyzing a literary paintings doesn’t suggest that you simply instantly take hold of the foremost topics and units utilized by the writer; this research consultant can help complement your examining to make certain you get all you could from Mythology. CliffsNotes assessment exams your comprehension of the unique textual content and reinforces studying with questions and solutions, perform tasks, and extra. For extra details on Mythology, try out the CliffsNotes source heart at www.cliffsnotes.com. during this AUDIOBOOK • pay attention an advent to Mythology • discover topics, personality improvement, and routine photos within the serious Commentaries • study new phrases from the thesaurus on the finish of every bankruptcy • study in-depth personality Analyses • collect an figuring out of Mythology with serious Essays • toughen what you discover ways to extra your research on-line at www.cliffsnotes.com

By Matthew Beresford

ISBN-10: 1780231881

ISBN-13: 9781780231884

From Ovid’s Lycaon to Professor Lupin, from Teen Wolf to An American Werewolf in Paris, the lycanthrope, or werewolf, involves us usually at the web page and the silver reveal. those interpretations usually reveal lycanthropy as a curse, with the individual changing into an uncontrollable, feral beast in the course of each complete moon. yet this can be only one model of the werewolf—its origins should be traced again hundreds of thousands of years to early prehistory, and every thing from Iron Age lavatory our bodies and Roman gods to humans similar to Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, and Sigmund Freud characteristic in its tale. Exploring the position of this atypical collection of rules and other people within the fable, The White Devil tracks the advance of the werewolf from its delivery to the current day, looking to comprehend why the wolf curse maintains to carry a company grip at the sleek imagination.

By Alan Dundes

ISBN-10: 0299140547

ISBN-13: 9780299140540

Originating greater than 2500 years in the past, cockfighting is likely one of the oldest documented activities on the earth. It has persevered to flourish regardless of bans opposed to it in lots of nations. within the Cockfight: A Casebook, folklorist Alan Dundes brings jointly a various array of writing in this male-dominated ritual. shiny descriptions of cockfights from Puerto Rico, Tahiti, eire, Spain, Brazil, and the Philippines supplement serious commentaries, from the fourth-century reflections of St. Augustine to modern anthropological and psychoanalytic interpretations. a few of the essays talk about the problematic ideas of the cockfight, the moral query of pitting both matched roosters in a struggle to the dying, the emotional involvement of cockfighters and lovers, and the sexual implications of the game. the result's an enlightening assortment for anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, and psychologists, in addition to fans of this historic blood recreation.

By Wolfgang Mieder

ISBN-10: 0313326983

ISBN-13: 9780313326981

Almost about every body has heard at the very least one proverb, and most of the people have heard extra. Proverbs supply a concise checklist of people knowledge and feature seemed in oral culture, literature, artwork, and pop culture for hundreds of years. essentially the most various and interesting forms of folklore, proverbs are studied in any respect degrees and are of curiosity to a variety of audiences. Written through the most important authority on proverbs, this reference supplies highschool scholars, undergraduates, and basic readers a concise but entire evaluation of proverbs in international tradition. the amount starts with definitions and classifications of proverbs and a dialogue in their foundation and dissemination. It then discusses a number of consultant proverbs from all over the world. this is often by way of a evaluation of scholarship on proverbs. The publication subsequent seems at how a number of proverbs have seemed in political speeches, literature, pop culture, and daily life. The instruction manual closes with a bibliography of print and digital assets and a word list. integrated are quite a few photographs illustrating the position of proverbs world wide.

By Archie Green

ISBN-10: 0807826057

ISBN-13: 9780807826058

ISBN-10: 0807875678

ISBN-13: 9780807875674

Archie Green--shipwright, folklorist, instructor, and lobbyist--is a mythical determine within the box of yankee folklore and vernacular tradition reviews. An idea to a iteration of scholars and students, eco-friendly is understood for the amazing ardour, intelligence, and interest he brings to his explorations of daily humans, their groups, their paintings, and their types of expression.This ebook gathers twelve essays meant to symbolize the variety of Green's writings over 40 years. decisions comprise a learn of people depictions within the artwork of Thomas Hart Benton, investigations of occupational and exertions language, and a contemplative account of private and political morality within the examine of Appalachian musicians. In an afterword, eco-friendly lines his profession and displays at the nation of folklore as a self-discipline this present day. Woven in the course of the foreword through Robert Cantwell is Green's biography, key to figuring out his targeted mixture of activism and scholarship.

By Barre Toelken

ISBN-10: 0585039321

ISBN-13: 9780585039329

ISBN-10: 0874212030

ISBN-13: 9780874212037

One of the main entire and generally praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's dialogue of the historical past and that means of folklore is added in easy language, simply understood definitions, and a wealth of insightful and wonderful examples. Toelken emphasizes dynamism and diversity within the significant array of folks expressions he examines, from "the biology of folklore," to occupational and ethnic lore, nutrients methods, vacations, own adventure narratives, ballads, myths, proverbs, jokes, crafts, and others. Chapters are through bibliographical essays, and over a hundred images illustrate the textual content. This re-creation is offered to all degrees of folklore examine and a necessary textual content for lecture room instruction.