Folklore Mythology

By David M. Guss

ISBN-10: 0520202899

ISBN-13: 9780520202894

ISBN-10: 0520223314

ISBN-13: 9780520223318

ISBN-10: 0585389942

ISBN-13: 9780585389943

By Richard Freeman

ISBN-10: 1905723547

ISBN-13: 9781905723546

Every person has heard of vampires and werewolves, yet what percentage have heard of the rokuro-kubi, the tsuchinoki or the sagari? Japan has a wealth of ghosts and monsters, jointly referred to as yokai, that are absolutely unknown within the West. the weird and lovely folklore of Japan comprises mammoth corpse-eating rabbits, flaming pigs that thieve human genitals, perverse water goblins, blood sucking timber, a dragon that impregnates girls, cats who animate lifeless our bodies, a zombie whale and an immense flesh consuming sea cucumber that grows from a couple of discarded knickers!

By Gareth Williams

ISBN-10: 140915873X

ISBN-13: 9781409158738

The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that are meant to have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend outfitted on hoaxes and wishful thinking?

Sir Peter Scott, across the world well known naturalist and president of the area natural world Fund, was once confident that the Monster existed. So have been senior scientists at London's typical heritage Museum and Chicago college; they misplaced their jobs simply because they refused to give up their trust within the creature. for many years, the medical institution was firm to quash makes an attempt to enquire Loch Ness - until eventually Nature, the world's maximum examine magazine, released an editorial by means of Peter Scott that includes underwater photos of the Monster. Drawing greatly on new fabric, Gareth Williams takes a unconditionally unique examine what relatively occurred in Loch Ness. A enormous Commotion tells the tale as by no means earlier than: a gripping saga populated through vibrant characters who do notable issues in pursuit of 1 of evolution's wildest cards.

Meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, this ebook will attract somebody desirous about nature and its mysteries - and to each person who enjoys a fantastically crafted detective tale with a robust forged of heroes and villains, lots of twists and an unforeseen finishing.

By Verrier Elwin

ISBN-10: 0195629620

ISBN-13: 9780195629620

This paintings experiences the Agaria tribe of iron-smelters and blacksmiths present in primary India. Elwin indicates that although the Agaria percentage customs and behavior with different tribes, they've got a hugely constructed totemic civilization with its personal exact mythology affecting each element of existence. Elwin additionally scrutinizes the background, demographics, magic, and economic system that allows you to supply an research of the richness of the craft and tradition of this slowly decaying society.

By Robert Baron, Ana C. Cara

ISBN-10: 1617031062

ISBN-13: 9781617031069

ISBN-10: 1617031070

ISBN-13: 9781617031076

International in scope and multidisciplinary in strategy, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive varieties and performances that come into being whilst cultures stumble upon each other. Creolization is gifted as a strong marker of id within the postcolonial creole societies of Latin the United States, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean zone, in addition to a common strategy which could happen anyplace cultures come into contact.An outstanding 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 reports, background, and fabric tradition reports, essayists tackle theoretical dimensions of creolization and current in-depth box reviews. subject matters contain diversifications of the Gombe drum over the process its migration from Jamaica to West Africa; makes use of of "ritual piracy" interested in the appropriation of Catholic symbols via Puerto Rican brujos; the subversion of legitimate tradition and authority via playful and combative use of "creole speak" in Argentine literature and verbal arts; the mislabeling and trivialization ("toy blindness") of items appropriated via African american citizens within the American South; the strategic use of creole thoughts between storytellers in the islands of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized personality of latest Orleans and its song. within the introductory essay the editors tackle either neighborhood and common dimensions of creolization and argue for the centrality of its expressive manifestations for creolization scholarship.

By Alexandra Georgakopoulou

ISBN-10: 1556198086

ISBN-13: 9781556198083

Conversational narratives supply useful assets for the discursive building and invoking of private and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural research represent a excessive precedence within the time table of discourse experiences. This booklet contributes to the starting to be line of discourse-analytic study at the dynamic kin among narrative types and capabilities and their quick and wider communicative contexts. the quantity attracts on a wide corpus of spontaneous, conversational tales recorded in Greece, the place daily stortytelling is a critical mode of communique within the community’s interactional contexts and hence a wealthy web site for a significant enactment of social stances, roles, and relatives. The research brings to the fore the tales’ text-constitutive mechanisms and explores the ways that they situate the narrated stories globally, through invoking sociocultural wisdom and expectancies, and in the community, by way of making them sequentially and interactionally proper to the explicit conversational contexts. The tales’ micro- and macro-level research, richly illustrated with narrative transcripts all through, ends up in the uncovery of an international mode of narrative functionality that is in accordance with a closed set of recurrent units. it really is argued that the alternative or avoidance of this mode is on the middle of the tales’ (re)constitution of a self, an different and a sociocultural international. the various instances of intergenerational narrative communique (adults-children) shed extra mild at the performance’s contextualization points and give a contribution to the cross-cultural realizing of the dynamics of oral performances.
Besides scholars and researchers of discourse research, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, narrative research and Greek reviews, this e-book also will entice all these drawn to conversation and cultural reports.

By Joyee Flynn

ISBN-10: 1606019872

ISBN-13: 9781606019870

By Stephanie Mitchem

ISBN-10: 0814757316

ISBN-13: 9780814757314

ISBN-10: 0814757324

ISBN-13: 9780814757321

Cure a nosebleed through preserving a silver sector at the again of the neck. deal with an earache with candy oil drops. put on plant roots to maintain from catching colds. inside of many African American households, these kind of practices proceed this present day, woven into the material of black tradition, frequently communicated via girls. Such folks practices form the suggestions approximately therapeutic which are subtle all through African American groups and are expressed in myriad methods, from religion therapeutic to creating a mojo.

Stephanie Y. Mitchem provides a desirable research of African American therapeutic. She sheds mild on a number of people practices and lines their improvement from the time of slavery throughout the nice Migrations. She explores how they've got persevered into the current and their dating with substitute medications. via conversations with black americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals proceed folks therapeutic performances. Mitchem exhibits that those practices should not easily approximately therapeutic; they're associated with expressions of religion, delineating points of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures among African American perspectives of well being and disorder and people of the tradition of institutional medicine.

By Dan Ben-Amos, Dov Noy, Ellen Frankel, Ira Shander, Leonard Schramm

ISBN-10: 0827608292

ISBN-13: 9780827608290

ISBN-10: 0827610459

ISBN-13: 9780827610453

Stories from the Sephardic Dispersion starts off an important selection of Jewish folktales ever released. it's the first quantity in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume sequence to be published over the subsequent a number of years, within the culture of Louis Ginzberg's vintage, Legends of the Jews. The seventy one stories the following and the others during this sequence were chosen from the Israel Folktale documents (IFA), a treasure condominium of Jewish lore that has remained principally unavailable to the full international beforehand. because the production of the nation of Israel, the IFA has accumulated greater than 20,000 stories from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost tales shared through their households from world wide. The stories come from the foremost ethno-linguistic groups of the Jewish global and are consultant of a large choice of matters and motifs, specially wealthy in Jewish content material and context. all of the stories is followed via in-depth observation that explains the tale's cultural, ancient, and literary heritage and its similarity to different stories within the IFA assortment, and wide scholarly notes. there's additionally an creation that describes the Sephardic tradition and its folks narrative culture, an international map of the parts coated, illustrations, biographies of the creditors and narrators, story style and motif indexes, a topic index, and a complete bibliography. till the institution of the IFA, we had had in basic terms constrained entry to the wide variety of Jewish folks narratives. Even in Israel, the collection position of the main wide-ranging cross-section of worldwide Jewry, those folktales have remained mostly unknown. some of the groups not exist as cohesive societies of their consultant lands; the Holocaust, migration, and alterations in residing kinds have made the continuation of those stories most unlikely. This quantity and the others to return should be monuments to a wealthy yet vanishing oral culture.

By Michael Ann Williams

ISBN-10: 0878057927

ISBN-13: 9780878057924

The good Smoky Mountains, on the border of japanese Tennessee and western North Carolina, are one of the maximum peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. even if this quarter stocks a lot with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife right here has been uniquely formed via old occasions, together with the Cherokee elimination of the 1830s and the construction of the nice Smoky Mountain nationwide Park a century later.This e-book surveying the wealthy folklife of this specific position within the American South bargains a view of the tradition because it has been outlined and adjusted by way of students, missionaries, the government, travelers, and other people of the quarter themselves.Here is an summary of the background of a pretty panorama, one who examines the nature typified by way of its early settlers, by means of the displacement of the folk, and by means of the way during which the folklife used to be found and outlined in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. the following is also an exam of varied people traditions and a examine of the way they've got replaced and advanced.