In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies cultural engagements that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity, and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by traditio...Loe edasi...
This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
Over the last thirty years, religious leaders in Tanzania have increasingly been recruited to participate in sensitive health programs like family planning. Providing an innovative and nuanced theorization of development, religion, and health, this...Loe edasi...
Myths and Heroes in Creative Writing: Re-reading and Remaking offers a comprehensive overview of myth throughout history. Exploring a variety of forms, Adrian May provides a framework for the practice and process of writing myths....Loe edasi...
Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances provide a window into the diversity of human culture. It is an essential textbook for...Loe edasi...
This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece....Loe edasi...
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English....Loe edasi...
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribu...Loe edasi...
Folklore & Zoology accessibly reviews the science of DNA samples; film and photograph analysis; hair and footprint examination; and the statistics behind alleged animals as Sasquatch and the Yeti, Nessie and Champ, the Griffin and the Thunderbirds,...Loe edasi...
This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience....Loe edasi...
This book offers a historically-sensitive ethnography of the zr umbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-May-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003406686)
This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It identifies and explores motifs and patterns in select folktales that promote interconnectedness, interde...Loe edasi...
Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts....Loe edasi...
This book studies the hill of Uisneach, arguably best defined as a sacred hill at the center of Ireland, possibly the sacred hill of the center of Ireland. It explores the medieval documents connected with the hill and compares them with archeologic...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies in order to see to what extent tales of an intrinsi...Loe edasi...
This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment o...Loe edasi...
This collection examines the figure of Robin Hood within geographical, cultural and temporal spaces. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of literary spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin H...Loe edasi...
From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures....Loe edasi...
