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Folklore & Mythology eBooks
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Griots at War
By: Hoffman, Barbara G.
Published by: Indiana University Press
In 1985, while she was an apprentice griot, or jelimuso, Barbara G. Hoffman saw and recorded a remarkable event in the small town of Kita, Mali. For four days, thousands of griots from all parts of the Mande world gathered to talk, sing, and make music in celebration of the opening of the new Hall of Griots and the installation of the recently named Head Griot. This unprecedented assembly also marked the end of a deadly two-year conflict fought with griot weapons words, reputations, and sorcery.
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Price: $31.95
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Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend
By: Harbus, Antonina
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great and legendary finder of the True Cross, was appropriated in the middle ages as a British saint. The rise and persistence of this legend harnessed Helena's imperial and sacred status to portray her as a romance heroine, source of national pride, and a legitimising link to imperial Rome. This study is the first to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of this legend, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England to the twentieth century.
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Price: $56.25
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The Holy Grail
By: Morgan, Giles
Published by: Pocket Essentials
Charting the emergence of the story of the Grail offers a revealing insight into the cultural shift from Celtic paganism to the emergence and domination of Christianity in Western Europe. The influence of Eastern mysticism emerges in the Grail romances as a result of the medieval crusades with its clash of cultures and subsequent cross-pollination of ideas. The Grail has come to symbolise the ultimate achievement in the modern mind and it became an object of fascination for the psychologist Carl Jung and the poet TS Eliot. Wagner, William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites are just some of the artists to have fallen under its enduring spell.
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Imagined States
By: Del Giudice, Luisa (ed.); Porter, Gerald (ed.)
Published by: Utah State University Press
An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others.
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Price: $22.95
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In Quest of Indian Folktales
By: Naithani, Sadhana
Published by: Indiana University Press
Reveals the previously unknown scholarship of a colonial Indian folklorist.
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Price: $52.00
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The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights
By: Knowles, James
Published by: Digireads.com
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Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests
By: Caldecott, Moyra
Published by: Mushroom Publishing
The spiritual search... traditional stories from world mythology retold and explained by Moyra Caldecott.
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Narrative as Social Practice
By: Klapproth, Danièle M.
Published by: Mouton de Gruyter
Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Aus
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Price: $88.00
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Of Corpse
By: Narvaez, Peter (ed.)
Published by: Utah State University Press
Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in this collection examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however, the essays here peruse a remarkable paradox--the convergence of death and humor.
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Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology
By: Cotterell, Arthur
Published by: Oxford University Press
Arthur Cotterell's fascinating book sets out clearly the chief myths of the world and explains why different mythologies arose in different lands, from the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia to the mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India.
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