Folklore studies / Study of myth Books
Wayne State University Press Fairy Tales Transformed TwentyFirstCentury Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder FairyTale Studies Series in FairyTale Studies
£26.36
Wayne State University Press Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah Raphael
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of Jewish magic in late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.
£74.25
Wayne State University Press The Politics of Magic
Book SynopsisFrom 1950 to 1989 East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. In The Politics of Magic, Qinna Shen analyses the films on thematic and formal levels and examines their embedded agendas in relation to the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic.
£24.71
Wayne State University Press Louis Ginzbergs Legends of the Jews
£37.56
Wayne State University Press 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on
Book SynopsisAgainst the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures.
£37.46
Wayne State University Press 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on
Book SynopsisAgainst the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures.
£74.25
Wayne State University Press Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
Book SynopsisJack Zipes has selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales from five different books and has arranged them thematically. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history.
£26.36
Wayne State University Press Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Book SynopsisContemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honoured fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales.Trade ReviewIn Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters, Cathy Yue Wang dives into the rich repository of Chinese myths and legends and examines their adaptations in the modern and contemporary world through a feminist lens. Through extensive research and incisive reading, she makes available to the Western audience a dazzling array of Chinese sources, which are not cold gems frozen in the past but shifting dynamisms addressing current issues within and beyond China. Her critical mind and lyrical voice contribute to fairy-tale studies, genre fiction studies, and feminist scholarship in general and invite further explorations along the path she has paved for us." - Zhange Ni, associate professor of religion and literature, Virginia Tech"Theoretically informed and skillfully written, this book deeply engages with a wide range of fantastic female figures in contemporary adaptations of traditional tales. Weaving cognitive narratology in close textual analyses to reveal dynamic communications between readers and writers, Wang makes excellent contributions to the interdisciplinary studies of Chinese fantasy." - Liang Luo, author of The Global White Snake"Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters is as intriguing as its title. Having watched and waited for Chinese children’s literature scholarship to explode on the international stage, this book’s commitment to tracing adaptations of Chinese traditional stories is a welcome contribution to the ever-growing body of research in this area. It will prove useful to both the novice and the expert in children’s literature wishing to consider the rich tradition of Chinese literature and its entanglement with the fantasy genre." - Emily Murphy, senior lecturer in children’s literature, Newcastle University
£27.96
Wayne State University Press Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
Book SynopsisMagic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, the conflict with the culture it reflects, and the scientific study of both. The first part of the book analyzes the essence of magic in general and Jewish magic in particular. The book begins with theories addressing the relationship of magic and religion in fields like comparative study of religion, sociology of religion, history, and cultural anthropology, and considers the implications of the paradigm shift in the interdisciplinary understanding of magic for the study of Jewish magic. The second part of the book focuses on Jewish magic culture in late antiquity and in the early Islamic period. This section highlights the artifacts left behind by the magic practi
£32.21
Wayne State University Press The Enchanted Boot
Book SynopsisThe authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities.
£63.75
Wayne State University Press Sepher Yosippon
Book SynopsisSepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish history and legend from Adam to the destruction of the Second Temple, this is the first known text since the canonical histories written by Flavius Josephus in Greek and later translated by Christian scholars into Latin. Sepher Yosippon has been cited and referred to by scholars, poets, and authors as the authentic source for ancient Israel for over a millennium, until overshadowed by the twentieth-century Hebrew translations of Josephus. It is based on Pseudo Hegesippus''s fourth-century anti-Jewish summary of Josephus''s Jewish War. However, the anonymous author [a.k.a. Joseph ben Gurion Hacohen] also consulted with the Latin versions of Josephus''s works available to him. At the same time, he included a wealth of Second Temple literature as well as Roman and Christian sources. This book contains Steven
£37.46
Syracuse University Press Moroccan Folktales
Book SynopsisDrawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savoured, studied, or simply treasured.
£999.99
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Orpheus in Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis volume takes the reader through the journey of a myth - where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics.
£23.36
Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology Facts
Book SynopsisGreek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.
£60.00
University of Arizona Press Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache
£21.56
University of Arizona Press Walking the Land Feeding the Fire
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£999.99
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Bandits Captives Heroines and Saints Cultural
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£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Myths of the Rune Stone Viking Martyrs and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"David M. Krueger’s multi-faceted analysis of the ‘cult’ of the Kensington Rune Stone adds to recent scholarship on collective memory and the invention of identity. I know of no other study that so effectively traces change over time in both audience and allure of a foundational myth that allows it to persist despite almost universal scientific rejection."—Mary Lethert Wingerd, author of North Country: The Making of Minnesota"Myths of the Rune Stone moves far past the Rune Stone’s legitimacy to explain how and why the stone fascinated and even obsessed such a wide swath of Minnesota’s European-descended population. The heart of this book is the story it tells about the persistent renewal of the Rune Stone story across a century of doubt."—Jon Butler, Yale University"This first comprehensive book about the popular meaning of the Kensington Rune Stone is a welcome contribution to the study of its historiography and to the impact of local culture on an American origin myth." —Minnesota Historical Society "Highly entertaining."—Norwegian American Weekly"Krueger’s book is a thoughtful examination of the competing claims of Nordic-Americans, Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, and Minnesotans in general to turn the KRS into a foundational support for their various efforts to find a place atop the American social hierarchy. It is well worth the read and a rewarding reading experience."—Jason Colavito"Krueger digs deep into how its myth demonstrates a complicated relationship with history, heritage, and belief in Minnesota and America itself."—Minnesota Monthly"By tracing the evolution of the Rune Stone story, [Krueger] helps us to understand the needs and motivations that give rise to these myths. Perhaps these insights can help us to form sharper distinctions between historiography and myth-making."—Religion Dispatches"An entertaining and informational read."—Journal of Folklore Research"Myths of the Rune Stone will certainly generate interest in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, but it should also be useful in the classroom as a coda to the ever-popular course on Viking history or mythology."—H-Net Reviews"Myths of the Rune Stone illuminates a debate about collective identity that is ever relevant to today’s Minnesota."—Scandinavian Studies"An interesting and ultimately convincing account of the various ways in which the use of the martyr myth informed the use of the Kensington Rune Stone to address various social and political agendas."—Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"Krueger’s study makes a valuable contribution to regional and immigration history and elucidates the role that civil religious rituals play in defining a community’s identity."—The Annals of Iowa"In Myths of the Rune Stone, David M. Krueger provides an exhaustively researched, accessibly written, and at times humorous examination of the rhetoric surrounding the Kensington Rune Stone."—Winterthur Portfolio Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: A Holy Mission to Minnesota1. Westward from Vinland: An Immigrant Saga by Hjalmar Holand2. Knutson’s Last Stand: Fabricating the First White Martyrs of the American West3. In Defense of Main Street: The Kensington Rune Stone as a Midwestern Plymouth Rock4. Our Lady of the Runestone and America’s Baptism with Catholic Blood5. Immortal Rock: Cold War Religion, Centennials, and the Return of the SkrælingsConclusion: The Enduring Legacy of American Viking MythsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£61.20
University of Minnesota Press Myths of the Rune Stone
Book SynopsisTrade Review"David M. Krueger’s multi-faceted analysis of the ‘cult’ of the Kensington Rune Stone adds to recent scholarship on collective memory and the invention of identity. I know of no other study that so effectively traces change over time in both audience and allure of a foundational myth that allows it to persist despite almost universal scientific rejection."—Mary Lethert Wingerd, author of North Country: The Making of Minnesota"Myths of the Rune Stone moves far past the Rune Stone’s legitimacy to explain how and why the stone fascinated and even obsessed such a wide swath of Minnesota’s European-descended population. The heart of this book is the story it tells about the persistent renewal of the Rune Stone story across a century of doubt."—Jon Butler, Yale University"This first comprehensive book about the popular meaning of the Kensington Rune Stone is a welcome contribution to the study of its historiography and to the impact of local culture on an American origin myth." —Minnesota Historical Society "Highly entertaining."—Norwegian American Weekly"Krueger’s book is a thoughtful examination of the competing claims of Nordic-Americans, Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, and Minnesotans in general to turn the KRS into a foundational support for their various efforts to find a place atop the American social hierarchy. It is well worth the read and a rewarding reading experience."—Jason Colavito"Krueger digs deep into how its myth demonstrates a complicated relationship with history, heritage, and belief in Minnesota and America itself."—Minnesota Monthly"By tracing the evolution of the Rune Stone story, [Krueger] helps us to understand the needs and motivations that give rise to these myths. Perhaps these insights can help us to form sharper distinctions between historiography and myth-making."—Religion Dispatches"An entertaining and informational read."—Journal of Folklore Research"Myths of the Rune Stone will certainly generate interest in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, but it should also be useful in the classroom as a coda to the ever-popular course on Viking history or mythology."—H-Net Reviews"Myths of the Rune Stone illuminates a debate about collective identity that is ever relevant to today’s Minnesota."—Scandinavian Studies"An interesting and ultimately convincing account of the various ways in which the use of the martyr myth informed the use of the Kensington Rune Stone to address various social and political agendas."—Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"Krueger’s study makes a valuable contribution to regional and immigration history and elucidates the role that civil religious rituals play in defining a community’s identity."—The Annals of Iowa"In Myths of the Rune Stone, David M. Krueger provides an exhaustively researched, accessibly written, and at times humorous examination of the rhetoric surrounding the Kensington Rune Stone."—Winterthur Portfolio Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: A Holy Mission to Minnesota1. Westward from Vinland: An Immigrant Saga by Hjalmar Holand2. Knutson’s Last Stand: Fabricating the First White Martyrs of the American West3. In Defense of Main Street: The Kensington Rune Stone as a Midwestern Plymouth Rock4. Our Lady of the Runestone and America’s Baptism with Catholic Blood5. Immortal Rock: Cold War Religion, Centennials, and the Return of the SkrælingsConclusion: The Enduring Legacy of American Viking MythsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
The University of Alabama Press Distracted by Alabama
Book SynopsisInterspersed throughout with insights drawn from James Seay Brown's academic career and his work with a variety of Birmingham-area community organizations, this book traces a very personal, historically informed, and idiosyncratic profile of a region in transition in the mid to late twentieth century.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey Commemorative
Book SynopsisPetrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia's most famous ghost stories.Trade Review“Ghost stories have a very real place in the folklore and the history of a state or a nation. After all, who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?"" - Miss Bessie Lewis, author of They Called Their Town Darien: Being a Short History of Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia“Spine-tingling with a twang...” - National Public Radio’s All Things Considered“In Windham’s tales... myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” - Paris Review
£14.20
Duke University Press The Politics of Memory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is one of those historical texts in which the author not only revises our understanding of the past, but also shakes up our intellectual certainties in the present ... this text remains an important and influential one in Latin American studies. A preface to this second edition helps locate the text within the rather abrupt changes over the past decade ... "--British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2000Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Preface to the Duke Edition ix List of Illustrations xvii Preface xxiii Introduction: Interpreting the Past 1 Part I. The Creation of a Chiefly Ideology: Nasa Historical Thought under Spanish Rule 31 Part II. From Colony to Republic: Cacique and Caudillo 87 Part III. Contemporary Historical Voices 141 Glossary 209 Notes 211 References 221 Index 241
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Flatlanders and Ridgerunners
£19.50
Fordham University Press Things
Book SynopsisAddressing the relation between religion and things, which has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, the guiding idea of this volume is that religion necessarily requires some kind of incarnation. Exploring the role and place of sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites and technologies in different locations and religious traditions, this volume re-materializes the study of religion.Trade Review"Things gathers up a series of lively and provocative essays. Challenging received understandings of religion as primarily about beliefs (in spiritual beings) as historically derived and impossible to sustain, it draws attention to the centrality of the material in religious practices and debates about the world. This volume deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in either religion or materiality-or both." -- -Margaret Weiner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Things is an essential archive for the study of religious materiality and the material study of religion." -- -David Chidester author of Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa "A highly spirited and robust materialization of a significant trend in the study of religion. The articles in this remarkably coherent collection speak back to iconoclasm and the ideal or ideology of immateriality as found explicitly in certain practitioners of religion and implicitly in its scholarship. They illustrate the various ways in which material objects function as signs, powers, and mediations, and examine as well the intellectual debates and theological disputations about their functions and effects to which things inevitably give rise." -- -Michael Lambek author of The Weight of the Past "... this volume is an invaluable contribution to religious and material culture studies, broadening the scope of both fields by introducing new questions in old contexts, and investing agency in people and spirit in things." -- -Gabrielle A. Berlinger -Museum Anthropology Review
£31.50
Fordham University Press Words
Book SynopsisExamines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion.Trade Review"The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions." -- -S. Brent Plate Hamilton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Any more deathless questions?', Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel Part 1: What are words? 'Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion', Michael Lambek 'The power of words and the performative context', Jacqueline Borsje 'Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing', Jan Assmann 'Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body', Loriliai Biernacki Part 2 Religious Vocabularies: 'Semantic Differences; or, "Judaism"; "Christianity"', Daniel Boyarin 'The Name God in Blanchot', Jean-Luc Nancy 'Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion, and Absence in Atheism-A Dialogue with Blanchot and Nancy', Laurens ten Kate 'Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion', Nils F. Schott 'Allowed and forbidden words: Canon and Censorship in "Grunbegriffe", "Critical terms", Encyclopaedias', Christoph Auffarth Part 3: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit 'God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's Scriptural voice', Ernst Van den Hemel 'Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in W.Benjamin', Sergey Dolgopolski 'What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love', Jean-Luc Marion 'Jean-Luc Marion and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology', Tarek Dika Part 4: Situating Oneself via Language 'A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel', Asja Szafraniec 'Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics', Talal Asad 'The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Peter Burke 'Fiction-based Religion: From Star Wars to Jediism', Markus Altena Davidsen 'Prayer: Addressing the Name', Karmen Mackendrick Part 5 Language and the Foundation of Communities 'The Words of the Martyr. Media, Martyrdom and the Construction of a Community', Pieter Nanninga "Spritual X-ray Vision": the Religio-Political Rhetoric of Abraham Kuyper', Arie L. Molendijk 'Thinking through Religious Nationalism', Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss
£71.10
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiian Mythology Hawn Mythology Paper
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£25.46
University of Hawai'i Press Stories from the Marshall Islands Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein PALI Language Text
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£19.96
University of Hawai'i Press Kamehameha
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£13.46
University of Hawai'i Press The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha
Book SynopsisMany biographies of the Buddha have been published in the last 150 years, and all claim to describe the authentic life of the historical Buddha. This book starts from the opposite assumption and argues that we do not yet possess the archival and archeological materials required to compose such a biography: All we have are narratives, not facts.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Dialogues with a Trickster
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£56.25
University of New Mexico Press The Zunis SelfPortrayals
Book SynopsisNow back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions - from the Zuni creation myth and the rituals of masked dances to farming and hunting practices.
£19.76
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Dine Bahane
Book SynopsisThis is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since the publication of Washington Matthew's Navaho Legends in 1897. Paul G Zolbrod's new translation attempts to render the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page.
£22.46
Liverpool University Press Metamorphoses Bks 912 Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisOvid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a treasure-house of mythology. The complete work has been edited in four volumes by D. E. Hill. Each volume stands alone, offering the Latin text with facing prose translation and notes tracing Ovid’s sources and his influence on literature and art. This volume, the third of four, contains Books IX–XII.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book IX Book X Book XI Book XIICommentary Notes on Book IX Notes on Book X Notes on Book XI Notes on Book XIIBibliographyIndex
£29.95
Watkins Media Limited The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man Book III of
Book SynopsisLadies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man.Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first. Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down.In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick…Trade Review"I find myself completely drawn in, unable to predict what will happen next.""Exhilarating... The charismatic duo at the heart of this adventure are sure to please."
£11.77
John Libbey & Co Scaled for Success
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£25.19
John Libbey & Co Beasts of the Deep
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£20.69
University of Massachusetts Press The Black Cloth Collection of African Folk Tales
Book SynopsisFirst published in France as Le Pagne Noir: Contes Africains in 1955. The writing of such chronicles of an African childhood was the author's way of coming to terms with the questions every sensitive colonized person educated in the Western tradition would sooner or later have to ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?Trade ReviewThese sixteen stories, an exquisite fusion of entertainment and ethics, demonstrate the sophisticated taste for song, epic, pun, riddle, and satire of African people south of the Sahara."—New York Times Book Review"Now in his 70s, Dadie has been honored as a poet, novelist, critic, and statesman in his native Ivory Coast. In this book--originally published in France in 1955--he renders an oral tradition in lively, mellifluous and vigorous prose. The exotic elements--iguanas, crocodiles, panthers--add spice to forms familiar in European folktales: how the pig got its snout; the persecuted stepchild or orphan; the fish on the hook that promises riches if it is spared; the wily, boastful trickster who ensnares himself as often as others. The tales seem to speak directly to the reader."—Publishers Weekly"The tales of this satisfying collection are full of humor and inventiveness, patience and wisdom. They are told in flowing, resonant, rhythmical language that lovingly mirrors the world it depicts. The book, with its grainy beige covers, black endpapers, and prints of African textile designs, is a pleasure to hold an a delight to read."—Parabola
£999.99
University of Tennessee Press Folklore Matters
£20.21
The University of Tennessee Press Tape Recorded Interview 2Nd Ed Manual Field Workers Folklore Oral History A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History
£17.56
University of Tennessee Press Bodylore
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WW Norton & Co The Sweets of Araby
Book SynopsisFrom ancient Baghdad, recipes for, and the stories behind, exotic and unusual treats.
£14.24
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth Gender
Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition introduces this material to a broader audience and contains a new afterword by Saladin d'Anglure.
£26.06
MB - Cornell University Press The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas
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£48.60
Cornell University Library Wisdom of the North
Book SynopsisWisdom of the North studies how and for what purposes proverbs were used by the composers of the sagas, thereby demonstrating how awareness of proverbial occurrences in these narratives can enable us to engage in more penetrating literary criticism of these works. The methods offered here have already been applied to the reading of other medieval texts, particularly those originating in societies marked by the presence or persistent influence of preliterate culture.
£46.80
Cornell University Press International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and
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£11.39
South Dakota State Historical Society Tasunka A Lakota Horse Legend
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£17.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisA Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Trade Review"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011) "This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, Inc., 1 August 2011)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Maps xi List of Tables xii Notes on Contributors xiii To the Reader xviii Acknowledgements xxi Glossary xxii Abbreviations xxv Approaching Myth 1 1 Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through 3Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone Part I Establishing the Canon 25 2 Homer’s Use of Myth 27Françoise Létoublon 3 Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century 47Ken Dowden 4 Orphic Mythology 73Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Part II Myth Performed, Myth Believed 107 5 Singing Myth: Pindar 109Ian Rutherford 6 Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists 125Niall Livingstone 7 Acting Myth: Athenian Drama 141Jean Alaux 8 Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts 157Susan Woodford 9 Platonic ‘Myths’ 179Penelope Murray 10 Myth in History 195Alan Griffiths Part III New Traditions 209 11 Myth and Hellenic Identities 211Fritz Graf 12 Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria 227Anatole Mori 13 The Myth of Rome 243Matthew Fox 14 Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes 265Zahra Newby 15 The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies 283Ken Dowden 16 Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 301Zahra Newby 17 Myth in Christian Authors 319Fritz Graf Part IV Older Traditions 339 18 The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology 341Nicholas J. Allen 19 Near Eastern Mythologies 357Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp 20 Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond 383Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt Part V Interpretation 411 21 Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 413Susan Woodford 22 The Myth of History: The Case of Troy 425Dieter Hertel 23 Women and Myth 443Sian Lewis 24 Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins 459Ian Rutherford 25 Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? 471Richard H. Armstrong 26 Initiation: The Key to Myth? 487Ken Dowden 27 The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth 507Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden Part VI Conspectus 525 28 A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology 527Jan N. Bremmer Bibliography 549 Index of Texts Discussed 605 Index of Names 613 Index of Subjects 635
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Folklore
Book SynopsisA Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe.Trade Review"Covering information across time periods and continents, this truly is a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach to folklore studies." (American Reference Books Annual, 1 November 2015) “This 660-page anthology is important, containing thirty-six essays by thirty-three scholars, who represent different countries and approaches to the study of folklore.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 March 2014) “A Companion to Folkloreis nothing if not international, and this quality alone distinguishes it from most earlier reference works and makes it an important resource for the field.” (Western Folklore, 1 May 2013Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem Part I Concepts and Phenomena 7 Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena 9 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 1 The Social Base of Folklore 13 Dorothy Noyes 2 Tradition Without End 40 Francisco Vaz da Silva 3 The Poetics of Folklore 55 Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem 4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality 75 Peter Seitel 5 Performance 94 Richard Bauman 6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119 Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg 7 Religious Practice 136 Sabina Magliocco 8 Work and Professions 154 Gertraud Koch 9 Material Culture 169 Orvar Löfgren Part II Location 185 Introduction: Location 187 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China 190 Lydia H. Liu 11 Japan 211 Akiko Mori 12 India 234 Sadhana Naithani 13 Oceania 248 Phillip H. McArthur 14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265 Fernando Fischman 15 Folklore Studies in the United States 286 Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix 16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey 305 Arzu Öztürkmen 17 Folklore Studies In Israel 325 Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem 18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349 Ursula Baumgardt 19 From Volkskunde to the “Field of Many Names”: Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364 Regina F. Bendix 20 Finland 391 Lauri Harvilahti 21 Ireland 409 Diarmuid Ó Giolláin 22 Russia 426 Alexander Panchenko Part III Reflection 443 Introduction: Reflection 445 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 23 Folklore and Literature 447 Cristina Bacchilega 24 Folklore and/in Music 464 Stephen D. Winick 25 Folklore and/on Film 483 Pauline Greenhill 26 Cultural Heritage 500 Valdimar T. Hafstein 27 Cultural Property 520 Martin Skrydstrup 28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power 537 Alison Dundes Renteln Part IV Practice 555 Introduction: Practice Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 557 29 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present 559 Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber 30 Imagining Public Folklore 579 Debora Kodish 31 The Institutionalization of Folklore 598 Bjarne Rogan Index 631
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