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64) The fox's craft in Japanese religion and folklore: shapeshifters, transformations, and duplicities
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Publication Date
2004
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1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages).
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For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter...
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Publication Date
2014
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1 online resource
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"In Science, Bread, and Circuses, Gregory Schrempp brings a folkloristic slant to the topic of popular science, calling attention to the persistence of folkloric form, idiom, and worldview within the increasingly important dimension of popular consciousness defined by the impact of science. Schrempp considers specific examples of texts in which science writers employ folkloric tropes--myths, legends, proverbs, or a variety of gestures from religious...
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Publication Date
1992
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1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations.
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An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese...
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[2019]
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1 online resource
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"Les Algonquins, ou Anishinabeg dans leur langue, forment aujourd'hui une population de plus de 10 000 personnes réparties principalement en dix communautés en Outaouais et en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Chasseurs, piégeurs, pêcheurs, cueilleurs par tradition, comme pour les autres habitants des forêts boréale ou laurentienne du Québec, leurs expertises issues de pratiques ancestrales se sont très vite manifestées dans de nombreux autres...
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Publication Date
2022.
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1 online resource.
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"This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking ('Syriac') Christians, Kurdish Muslims and-to a lesser extent-Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper,...
72) Stone soup
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When the little old lady claims she has no food to give him, a hungry young man proceeds to make a soup with a stone and water.
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Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations, map
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"Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered...
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Publication Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations
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Writing about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they shape their social identities. She explores their ideas about gender, family, adult-child interactions, and Protestant/Catholic tensions.
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"The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate...





