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Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
"Retelling 30 Eastern Cherokee myths and legends, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background is information given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids. The reader may thus experience the stories more as their original audiences would have"--
42) The white stag
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Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. Their leader was called Attila, and the land Hungary.
Author
Publication Date
c2006
Physical Desc
vii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter...
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Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 144 pages) : illustrations, map
Description
Les Atikamekw, selon la graphie vernaculaire, constituaient par tradition un peuple de chasseurs, cueilleurs, piégeurs et pêcheurs nomades, bien qu'au fil des siècles, ils aient aussi développé une grande expertise dans plusieurs domaines économiques dont la foresterie, le tourisme et l'artisanat. Les Atikamekw ont une très longue histoire d'occupation de leur territoire et d'utilisation de ses ressources qui remonte, dans les sources écrites,...
Publication Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : illustrations
Description
Presents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics.
Publication Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 287 pages)
Description
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors to the volume, all of whom have close personal or professional relationships to the military, examine battlefield talismans, personal narrative (storytelling),...
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Publication Date
2003
Physical Desc
viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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"This story was never meant to by sandwiched between the covers of a book, as neat lines of prose. In 1895 a man called "Stag" Lee Shelton shot a man called Billy Lyons in a St. Louis bar. A black-on-black crime that scarcely made headlines. But this story, turned into a song, is one that black Americans have never tired of repeating and reliving. This tale of dignity and death, violence and sex, has been given countless forms by artists ranging from...
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Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (50 pages .).
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To many Native American cultures, songs and stories are dramatic enactments of reality. To some words bring reality into existence. In this chapter from his award-winning The Anguish of Snails, Toelken thoughtfully approaches a number of stories from Native American traditions. He discusses how narratives can be touchstones of shared values among closely associated traditional people and how songs and stories go far beyond an evening's entertainment...
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Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p.
Description
For Huastecan Nahuas, water is a symbolic reference. This book describes the multiple values attached to water through the practice of tale telling in this society. It analyzes several local tales about water manifestations such as floodings, thunderstorms, and waterlords, and explores what these mean to Huastecan Nahuas in their present socio-cultural context. The author shows how tales about this element represent and discuss current themes like...
54) Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs
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Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward tales populated by extraordinary characters and exploits, by giants who humble haughty Narts, by horses and sorceresses, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus brings...
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for he does not fit into any neat categories or definitions. This study, first published in 1994, aims to give the reader the opportunity to experience in some...
Author
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (266 p.)
Description
The study of legends has long been a critical component of cultural anthropological analysis. In Native American Legends of the Southeast, George E. Lankford has compiled and analyzed a collection of unique and rare legends that will continue to appeal to scholars and students of Native American culture and the study of legends in general.
Publication Date
c1989
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 384 p.)
Description
Compiled to accompany the best-selling textbook, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. The essays include folklore classics and recent works, and are organized in sections that correspond to the chapter headings in An Introduction.
Publication Date
1976.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 121 pages) : illustrations.
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The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text and the Dutch translation are provided. Ten of these are about Sangumang, the cunning one, who used to fool his uncle, the king. The other ten deal with Bapa Paloi, the stupid one, who is constantly being admonished by his wife....





