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  • 1
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    American Folk Legend : A Symposium (2022)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520313217 , 0520313216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
    Series Statement: UC Press voices revived
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hand, Wayland D American Folk Legend
    DDC: 398.20973
    Keywords: Legends Congresses ; Folklore ; Légendes - Amérique - Congrès ; Folklore ; folklore (culture-related concept)
    Abstract: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971
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  • 2
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    The book of yōkai : mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore (2015)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520959125 , 0520959124
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xix, 309 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965- Book of yōkai
    Former Title: The book of yokai
    DDC: 398.20952
    Keywords: Animals, Mythical Japan ; Spirits ; Yōkai (Japanese folklore) ; Animals, Mythical ; Animals, Mythical Japan ; Japan Folklore ; Spirits ; Yōkai (Japanese folklore) ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Animals, Mythical ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folklore ; Electronic books ; Japan Folklore ; Japan ; Japan Folklore ; Japan ; Electronic books Folklore
    Abstract: "Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled 'yokai, ' these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence within global popular culture. It invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity"--Provided by publisher
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    Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520928947 , 0520928946 , 0585466009 , 9780585466002
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 208 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies 4
    Parallel Title: Print version Tales of the neighborhood
    DDC: 398.2089924
    Keywords: Jews Folklore ; Israel ; Galilee ; Jewish legends History and criticism ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Women in rabbinical literature ; Folklore in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Jews Folklore ; Jewish legends History and criticism ; Women in rabbinical literature ; Folklore in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Jews Folklore ; Jewish legends History and criticism ; Jews Israel ; Galilee ; Legends, Jewish History and criticism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; RELIGION ; Judaism ; General ; Folklore in rabbinical literature ; Jewish legends ; Jews ; Manners and customs ; Rabbinical literature ; Women in rabbinical literature ; Volkskunde ; Alltag ; Rabbinische Literatur ; Jodendom ; Feministische literatuurkritiek ; Rabbijnse literatuur ; Legenden ; Late oudheid ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Folklore ; Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs ; Israel ; Galilee ; Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs ; Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs ; Israel ; Galilee ; Galiläa ; Galilea ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Folklore
    Abstract: Showing that religion is shaped to some extent by the ordinary events of everyday life, this text focuses on the 'neighbourhood' of the Galilee, bringing to life the riddles parables and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies2. Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing -- 3. Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences -- 4. The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire -- 5. Between Us: A Conclusion.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-190) and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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    Surviving through the days : translations of Native California stories and songs : a California Indian reader (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520222695 , 9780520222694 , 0520222709 , 9780520222700 , 9780520935365 , 0520935365
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 630 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Surviving through the days
    DDC: 398.08997
    Keywords: Indians of North America Folklore ; California ; Indians of North America Music ; California ; Indian mythology California ; California ; Indians of North America Folklore ; Indians of North America Music ; Indian mythology ; Indians of North America Music ; Indians of North America Folklore ; Indian mythology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Indian mythology ; Indians of North America ; Folklore ; Music ; California ; Electronic books Folklore ; Music ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography
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  • 5
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    Whispers on the color line : rumor and race in America (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520926851 , 0520926854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 260 pages) , illustrations)
    Keywords: African Americans Folklore ; Whites Folklore ; Urban folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; African Americans ; Urban folklore ; Whites ; Folklore ; United States
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index
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    Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa (2000)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520922297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 352 Seiten) , Karten
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 37
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als White, Luise Speaking with vampires
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    Keywords: Folklore ; Folklore ; Vampires ; Vampires ; Blood Folklore ; HISTORY / Europe / General ; Ostafrika ; Zentralafrika ; Kolonialismus ; Vampir ; Blut ; Volksglaube
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currencies and Talk -- 1 . Blood and Words: Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories -- 2. Historicizing Rumor and Gossip -- 3. "Bandages on Your Mouth": The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa -- 4. "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa -- 5. "A Special Danger": Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi,1919-193 -- 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia -- 7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping- Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia,1931-1939 -- 8. Citizenship and Censorship: Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s -- 9. Class Struggle and Cannibalism: Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo -- 10. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
    DOI: 10.1525/9780520922297
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    Listen to the heron's words : reimagining gender and kinship in North India (1994)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520083707 , 0520083709 , 9780520083714 , 0520083717 , 9780520914216 , 052091421X , 0585104433 , 9780585104430
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxxvii, 234 pages) , illustrations, map
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, 1950- Listen to the heron's words
    DDC: 398.209542
    Keywords: Folk literature, Indic India ; Uttar Pradesh ; Folk literature, Indic India ; Rajasthan ; Women Folklore ; India ; Sex role India ; Folk literature, Indic ; Folk literature, Indic ; Women Folklore ; Sex role ; Folk literature, Indic ; Sex role ; Folk literature, Indic ; Women Folklore ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Sex role ; Women ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folk literature, Indic ; Folklore ; Folklore ; Manners and customs ; Rajasthan (India) Social life and customs ; Uttar Pradesh (India) Social life and customs ; India ; India ; Rajasthan ; India ; Uttar Pradesh ; Uttar Pradesh (India) Social life and customs ; Rajasthan (India) Social life and customs ; Rajasthan (India) Social life and customs ; Uttar Pradesh (India) Social life and customs ; India ; Rajasthan ; India ; Uttar Pradesh ; India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Folklore ; Indien Nord ; Frau ; Gesang ; Ehemann ; Abstammung ; Loyalität
    Abstract: Preface:Listening to Women in Rural North India /Ann Grodzins Gold and Gloria Goodwin Raheja --Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India /Gloria Goodwin Raheja --Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs /Ann Grodzins Gold --On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin /Gloria Goodwin Raheja --On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality /Gloria Goodwin Raheja --Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case /Ann Grodzins Gold --Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story /Ann Grodzins Gold --Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions /Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold --Appendix:Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts --Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index. - Description based on print version record , Preface:Listening to Women in Rural North India , Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India , Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs , On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin , On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality , Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case , Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story , Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions , Appendix:Rajasthani and Hindi Song TextsGlossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words.
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    The short, swift time of gods on earth : the Hohokam chronicles (1994)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520914568 , 0520914562 , 0585365016 , 9780585365015
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (343 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Short, swift time of gods on earth
    DDC: 398.2089974
    Keywords: Pima Indians Folklore ; Tohono O'odham Indians Folklore ; Hohokam culture ; Pima Indians Folklore ; Tohono O'odham Indians Folklore ; Pima Indians Folklore ; Tohono O'odham Indians Folklore ; Hohokam culture ; Hohokam culture ; Pima Indians ; Tohono O'odham Indians ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Ethnic & Race Studies ; Folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Folklore
    Abstract: In 1935 two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Genesis2. The Flood -- 3. New Creation and Corn -- 4. The Whore -- 5. Origin of Wine and Irrigation -- 6. Morning Green Chief and the Witch -- 7. Feather Braided Chief and the Gambler -- 8. Siuuhu's Death and Resurrection -- 9. The Conquest Until Buzzard -- 10. The Conquest Until Siwan Wa'aki -- 11. After the Conquest -- Conclusion: Mythologies -- Appendix: Correlation of Conquests.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-[332]) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Keeping Slug Woman Alive : A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (1993)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-08007-6 , 978-0-520-08007-2 , 0-520-08006-8 , 978-0-520-08006-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 214 Seiten
    Keywords: Nordamerika Kalifornien ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianer, Kalifornien ; Pomo ; Miwok ; Orale Tradition ; Folklore ; Erzähltradition ; Erzählung
    Abstract: This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a range of topics that include orality, art, literary criticism, and pedagogy, and demonstrate that people can see more than just 'what things seem to be'. Throughout, he asks: How can we read across cultures so as to encourage communication rather than to close it down? Sarris maintains that cultural practices can be understood only in their living, changing contexts. Central to his approach is an understanding of storytelling, a practice that embodies all the indeterminateness, structural looseness, multivalence, and richness of culture itself. He describes encounters between his Indian aunts and Euro-American students and the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom; he brings the reports of earlier ethnographers out of museums into the light of contemporary literary and anthropological theory. Sarris' perspective is exceptional: son of a Coast Miwok/Pomo father and a Jewish mother, he was raised by Mabel McKay - a renowned Cache Creek Pomo basketweaver and medicine woman - and by others, Indian and non-Indian, in Santa Rosa, California. Educated at Stanford, he is now a university professor and recently became Chairman of the Federated Coast Miwok tribe. His own story is woven into these essays and provides valuable insights for anyone interested in cross-cultural communication, including educators, theorists of language and culture, and general readers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue: Peeling Potatoes -- Part One. Lessons from Mabel McKay: The Oral Experience. 1. The verbal art of Mabel McKay: talk as culture contact and cultural critique. 2. The woman who loved a snake: orality in Mabel McKay's stories -- Part Two. About Pomo Baskets and Secret Cults; Cultural Phenomena. 3. A culture under glass: the Pomo basket. 4. Telling dreams and keeping secrets: the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance -- Part Three. Hearing the Old Ones Talk: The Literate Experience. 5. Reading narrated American Indian lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women.6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love medicine as home medicine -- Part Four. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: Classromm Practices. 7. Storytelling in the classroom: crossing vexed chasms -- 8. Keeping Slug Woman alive: the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom -- Works Cited -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201 - 206; Enthält acht Erzählungen, von denen sieben bereits in leicht veränderter Form bereits veröffentlicht wurden.
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    Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts (1993)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520913066 , 052091306X , 0585129592 , 9780585129594
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vi, 214 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Keeping Slug Woman alive
    DDC: 398.2089975
    Keywords: Pomo Indians Folklore ; Miwok Indians Folklore ; Folk literature, Indian History and criticism ; Oral tradition ; Storytelling ; Folk literature, Indian History and criticism ; Pomo Indians Folklore ; Miwok Indians Folklore ; Oral tradition ; Storytelling ; Pomo Indians Folklore ; Miwok Indians Folklore ; Folk literature, Indian History and criticism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folk literature, Indian ; Miwok Indians ; Oral tradition ; Pomo Indians ; Storytelling ; Ethnic & Race Studies ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Folklore ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Folklore ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Prologue : peeling potatoes -- The verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique -- The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories -- A culture under glass : the Pomo basket -- Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance -- Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women -- Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine -- Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms -- Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue : peeling potatoesThe verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique -- The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories -- A culture under glass : the Pomo basket -- Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance -- Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women -- Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine -- Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms -- Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom.
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    A carnival of parting : the tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as sung and told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan (1992)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520911550 , 0520911555 , 0585130558 , 9780585130552
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xx, 368 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Print version Carnival of parting
    DDC: 398.2209544
    Keywords: Nath, Madhu Natisar ; Nath, Madhu Natisar ; Nath, Madhu Natisar ; Tales India ; Rajasthan ; Storytellers India ; Rajasthan ; Folk singers India ; Rajasthan ; Folk songs, Rajasthani ; Tales ; Storytellers ; Folk singers ; Folk singers ; Storytellers ; Tales ; Folk songs, Rajasthani ; Folk songs, Rajasthani ; Storytellers ; Tales ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folk singers ; India ; Rajasthan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis - a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the interactive dimensions, the moods, and the pleasures of a village bard's performance. Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appendix on the bard's language by David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a richly detailed ethnographic, historical, and cultural backdrop. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him. She examines the Nath caste and their oral epic traditions as an important stream within North Indian Hinduism, showing how Madhu Nath's versions of Bharthari's and Gopi Chand's well-known tales surface as distinctive moments within complex legendary and historical currents. While embellished with miraculous displays of magical powers and evocative of profound spiritual dedication, the tales translated here are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights the thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Although both narratives frequently invoke as ultimate authority the causal black hole of fate, they in no way acquiesce to fatalism. Madhu Nath's vital colloquial telling of Bharthari's and Gopi Chand's stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a "carnival of parting
    Note: Translated from Rajasthani. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index. - Description based on print version record , Translated from Rajasthani
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    Magicians of Manumanua : living myths in Kalauna (1983)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-04972-1 , 978-0-520-04972-7
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 317 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 1
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Melanesien ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Mythologie ; Mythos und Legende ; Anthropologie, politische ; Soziale Organisation ; Folklore
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Of myths and men -- The house of Lulauvile -- Time's serpent Honoyeta -- The blood of Malaveyoyo -- The jaw of Tobowa -- The head of Didiala -- The bones of Iyahalina -- The belly of Kimaola -- Revelations -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Glossary of Kalauna terms -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Cocopa texts (1983)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520096525
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 604 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: University of California publications in linguistics 100
    DDC: 497/.5
    Keywords: Cocopa language ; Texts ; Cocopa Indians ; Folklore ; Indians of North America ; Arizona ; Folklore ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Cocopa-Sprache
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    More Mohave myths (1972)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520093739
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 160 S., 9 pl. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. , 28 cm
    Series Statement: Anthropological records 27
    DDC: 301.2 s
    Keywords: Mohave Indians ; Folklore ; Anthologie ; Anthologie ; Anthologie ; Anthologie ; Kalifornien ; Mohave ; Märchen ; Kalifornien ; Mohave ; Märchen
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    I could talk old-story good : creativity in Bahamian folklore (1966)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520338296 , 0520338294
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 pages) , map
    Series Statement: University of California publications. Folklore studies 17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-1998 I could talk old-story good
    Keywords: Folklore Methodology ; Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Storytelling ; Folklore - Méthodologie ; Tradition orale - Bahamas ; Folklore - Bahamas ; Art de conter - Bahamas ; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology ; Folklore ; Folklore - Methodology ; Oral tradition ; Storytelling ; Folklore - Methodology ; Oral tradition - Bahamas ; Folklore - Bahamas ; Storytelling - Bahamas ; Art de conter - Bahamas ; Bahamas ; Folklore ; Bahamas
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-156)
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