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Author : Melville Jean Herskovits,Frances Shapiro Herskovits
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Black English
ISBN : UOMDLP:agd9745:0001.001
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578787
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : Melville J. Herskovits,Frances S. Herskovits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729071918
Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810109933
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
Author : Melville J. Herskovits,Frances S. Herskovits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:480680633
Author : Philip M. Peek,Kwesi Yankah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948726
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253204720
"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476663517
Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas. This book catalogs the lore and legends of more than 1,000 different humanoid species and individual beings, including the Titans, Valkyries, Jotnar, yōkai, biblical giants, elves, ogres, trolls and many more.
Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307803184
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786455812
From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind’s deeply-rooted fears. This encyclopedia, with entries ranging from “Abchanchu” to “Zmeus,” includes nearly 600 different species of historical and mythological vampires, fully described and detailed.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786499366
This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
Author : Marcel Weltak
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496834911
Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O’Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak’s Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview of the music styles originating from the land that had recently gained its independence from the Netherlands. Up until the 1990s, little had been published that observed the music of the country. Weltak’s book was the first to examine both the instruments and the way in which they are played as well as the melodic and rhythmic components of music produced by the country’s ethnically diverse populations, including people of Amerindian, African, Indian, Indonesian/Javanese, and Chinese descent. Since the book’s first appearance, a new generation of musicians of Surinamese descent has carried on making music, and some of their elders referred to in the original edition have passed away. The catalog of recordings that have become available has also expanded, particularly in the areas of hip-hop, rap, jazz, R&B, and new fusions such as kaskawi. This edition, in English for the first time, includes a new opening chapter by Marcel Weltak giving a historical sketch of Suriname’s relationship to the Netherlands. It includes updates on the popular music of second- and third-generation musicians of Surinamese descent in the Netherlands, and Weltak's own subsequent and vital research into the Amerindian and maroon music of the interior. The new introduction is followed by the integral text of the original edition. New appendices have been added to this edition that include a bibliography and updated discography; a listing of films, videos, and DVDs on or about Surinamese music or musicians; and concise, alphabetically arranged notes on musical instruments and styles as well as brief biographies of those authors who contributed texts.
Author : Husson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004626652
Author : Jerry Gershenhorn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803221878
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledgeis the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895?1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classicThe Myth of the Negro Pastdelineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his bookMan and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation. ø After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits?s private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn?s biography recognizes Herskovits?s many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.
Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824840716
Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born. The Hawaiian gods were like great chiefs from far lands who visited among the people, entering their daily lives sometimes as humans or animals, sometimes taking residence in a stone or wooden idol. As years passed, the families of gods grew and included the trickster Maui, who snared the sun, and fiery Pele of the volcano. Ancient Hawaiians lived by the animistic philosophy that assigned living souls to animals, trees, stones, stars, and clouds, as well as to humans. Religion and mythology were interwoven in Hawaiian culture; and local legends and genealogies were preserved in song, chant, and narrative. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books, articles, and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology, and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology. With an introduction by Katherine Luomala.
