 | Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)
Publication Date: October 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 0313302103 | ISBN-13: 978-0313302107Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the complex issues of the novel, Lester provides an excellent resource for students and teachers first approaching the excitement and cultural flavor that define Hurston's novels.The casebook is an encyclopedia of African Am...
 |  | Zuni Fetishes
Publication Date: April 1999Fetishes are carvings believed to have a spirit within, which can help the owner if used properly and respectfully. They may be used for hunting, the diagnosis and cure of disease, initiations, war, gambling, propagation, spells, and good fortune and usually bear the resemblance of an animal. Frank Hamilton Cushing's classic book is incorporated in this expanded 9" x 12" version, annotated by Mark Bahti, who provides supplemental text on Zuni life and art. Full-color photographs show modern fetish art by the Zunis, with commentary explaining the cultural significa...
|  | Death in early America: The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning
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|  | The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (Latin America Otherwise)
Publication Date: May 15, 1998| Series: Latin America Otherwise How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa—a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Rappaport highlights the differences between "native" history and Eurocentric history and demonstrates how these histories must be examined in relation to the particular...
|  | Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Publication Date: 1982A collection of over 200 folk and fairy tales from all over the world, this is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region, this book also includes category index groups that list the stories by plot and character. ...
|  | Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual, 100-300 CE (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
Publication Date: March 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 9004141855 | ISBN-13: 978-9004141858This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural mili...
|  | Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions: Theatrical Folkways of Rural Missouri, 1885-1910
Publication Date: March 15, 1990Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century.In the years from 1885 to 1910 most Ozark communities were still relatively isolated from the outside and from each other. Thus they had to rely on their own resources for diversion from the difficult and often solitary business of everyday living. The most popular of their entertainments were those that brought some "theater" into their lives. They especially delighted in "literaries," debates, mock ...
|  | The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane
Release Date: December 4, 1992This remarkable book brings together more than 150 authentic Buddhist teaching tales from the Hidden Kingdom of Tibet — most never before translated into English. These captivating stories, legends and yarns — passed orally from teacher to student — capture the vibrant wisdom of an ancient and still-living oral tradition. Magical, whimsical, witty and ribald, The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane unfolds a luminous vision of a universe where basic goodness, harmony, and hope prevails. ...
|  | Stories and legends of the Palm Springs Indians,
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|  | The Study of American Folklore
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|  | The Myth of Pope Joan
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0226067459 | ISBN-13: 978-0226067452| Edition: 1 In the ninth century, a brilliant young woman named Joan disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her lover into the then-exclusively male world of scholarship. She proved so successful that she ascended the Catholic hierarchy in Rome and was eventually elected pope. Her pontificate lasted two years, until she became pregnant and died after giving birth during a public procession from the Vatican.Or so the legend goes—a legend that was fabricated sometime in the thirteenth century, a...
|  | Carmina Gadelica: Hymns & Incantations
Publication Date: August 1, 1992This is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their huts in front of peat fires listening as they "intoned in a low, recitative manner" these poems and prayers. This unique collection of living spirituality drawn from the depths of Celtic Christianity, represents a hidden oral tradition of great power and beauty, handed down through countless generations of Hebridean peasants. ...
|  | Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Mythology and Renaissance Poetics
Publication Date: June 1974| ISBN-10: 0873280636 | ISBN-13: 978-0873280631Excerpt from the preface: "The method I have prepared for, however, approaches literature from the opposite direction. I have sough to reconstruct a doctrine which was prominent in the renaissance - indeed, as it was expressed in cosmology, it was the most forceful orthodox determinant of renaissance thought. The notion of a divinely ordered universe is one of our most ancient propositions, having emanated from the school of Pythagoras as early as the sixth century B.C. It was assimilated by Plato and thence by the...
|  | Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 1991| Series: Folklife in the South Series The first book in the Folklife in the South series and by far the broadest look at traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It not only describes the traditions as they are but also explains how they came to be. ...
|  | Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today
Publication Date: March 7, 1996Defiant essays on the culture of Native Americans and their position in society consider such topics as the earth, the weather, and the injustice of the Anglo-American legal system. 20,000 first printing. Tour. ...
|  | The Masks of God, Vol. 4: Creative Mythology
Publication Date: 1991This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology. ...
|  | By Stephen Harris, Gloria Platzner: Classical Mythology: Images and Insights Sixth (6th) Edition
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|  | Festivals Together: A Guide to Multi-Cultural Celebration (Lifeways Series)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: Lifeways Series A resource guide for celebration, and for observing special days, according to traditions based on many cultures, this book brings together the experience, sharing and activities of individuals from a multi-faith community - Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh. It draws on backgrounds as diverse as North and West Africa, the Caribbean, China, India, Ireland, Japan, New England, the Philippines and more. Its unifying thread is our need for meaning, for continuity and for joy. Here are stories, songs, crafts, activities an...
|  | Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies, Revised Edition
Publication Date: November 11, 2011Hoodoo Medicine is a unique record of nearly lost African-American folk culture. It documents herbal medicines used for centuries, from the 1600s until recent decades, by the slaves and later their freed descendants, in the South Carolina Sea Islands. The Sea Island people, also called the Gullah, were unusually isolated from other slave groups by the creeks and marshes of the Low Country. They maintained strong African influences on their speech, social customs, and beliefs, long after other American blacks had lost this connection. Likewise, their folk me...
|  | Deutsche Sagen und Legenden (German Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844220752 | ISBN-13: 978-0844220758A German reader for intermediate studentsDeutsche Sagen und Legenden: A Collection of Legends from the German-Speaking World (Kernecker and Flippo) is an illustrated collection of delightful tales from the German-speaking world that encourages student interest in culture while building their language skills. This reader is softcover, 6” × 9”, and 152 pages in length. ...
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