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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore

Hausa Folk-tales - the Hausa Text of the Stories in Hausa Superstitions and Customs, in Folk-lore, and in Other Publications... Hausa Folk-tales - the Hausa Text of the Stories in Hausa Superstitions and Customs, in Folk-lore, and in Other Publications (Hardcover)
A J N (Arthur John Newm Tremearne
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lemuria - The lost continent of the Pacific (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Wishar S Cerve Lemuria - The lost continent of the Pacific (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Wishar S Cerve
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's A Strange Place, England (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jack Strange It's A Strange Place, England (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jack Strange
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Genetic Genesis - DNA Manipulation of Our Ancient Ancestors From the Original Biblical Text (Hardcover): Albert E Potts Genetic Genesis - DNA Manipulation of Our Ancient Ancestors From the Original Biblical Text (Hardcover)
Albert E Potts
R733 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R72 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pleiades and Our Secret Destiny (Hardcover): Frederick Dodson The Pleiades and Our Secret Destiny (Hardcover)
Frederick Dodson
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry (Hardcover): Albert... The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry (Hardcover)
Albert G MacKey
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dominion - An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Hardcover): Zelda Knight, Ekpeki... Dominion - An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Hardcover)
Zelda Knight, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, Joshua Omenga
R766 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Atlantis and the Garden of Eden (Hardcover): Frederick Dodson Atlantis and the Garden of Eden (Hardcover)
Frederick Dodson
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Study of Rusalki - Slavic Mermaids of Eastern Europe (Hardcover): Ronesa Aveela A Study of Rusalki - Slavic Mermaids of Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Ronesa Aveela; Cover design or artwork by Nelinda
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion - The Evil Eye in Greece (Hardcover): Eugenia Roussou Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion - The Evil Eye in Greece (Hardcover)
Eugenia Roussou
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how processes of globalization influence and transform vernacular religiosity. Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in Greece, this book demonstrates how the popular belief in the 'evil eye' produces a creative affinity between religion and spirituality in everyday practice. The author analyses a variety of significant research themes, including lived and vernacular religion, alternative spirituality and healing, ritual performance and religious material culture. The book offers an innovative social scientific interpretation of contemporary religiosity, while engaging with a multiplicity of theoretical, analytic and empirical directions. It contributes to current key debates in social sciences with regard to globalization and secularization, religious pluralism, contemporary spirituality and the New Age movement, gender, power and the body, health, illness and alternative therapeutic systems, senses, perception and the supernatural, the spiritual marketplace, creativity and the individualization of religion in a multicultural world.

Witchcraft and Witchcraft Trials in Orkney and Shetland (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover): G.F. Black Witchcraft and Witchcraft Trials in Orkney and Shetland (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover)
G.F. Black
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story)... The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story) (Volume III) (Hardcover)
N.M. Penzer
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Traditions of the Tinguian - a study in Philippine folk-lore (Hardcover): Fay Cooper Cole Traditions of the Tinguian - a study in Philippine folk-lore (Hardcover)
Fay Cooper Cole
R863 R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Save R72 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legends of the Torres Straits (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover): Alfred C Haddon Legends of the Torres Straits (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover)
Alfred C Haddon
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Strange Tales of Scotland - Large Print Hardcover Edition (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Jack... Strange Tales of Scotland - Large Print Hardcover Edition (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Jack Strange
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (Hardcover): Friedrich De La Motte-Fouqu Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (Hardcover)
Friedrich De La Motte-Fouqu; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Vampire, His Kith and Kin (Hardcover): Montague Summers The Vampire, His Kith and Kin (Hardcover)
Montague Summers
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana (Hardcover): Nathan Rabalais Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana (Hardcover)
Nathan Rabalais
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana's remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state's folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana's major ethnic groups-slavery, the grand d? (R)rangement, linguistic discrimination-resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero's ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana's folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state's cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children's books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.

Love in Colour - 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams... Love in Colour - 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams (Paperback)
Bolu Babalola
R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

CAPTIVATING LOVE STORIES CELEBRATED AND RETOLD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND GLOBAL HIT As seen on BBC2 Between the Covers 'Perfection in short story form. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'Beautifully written and full of joy. Bolu Babalola is a star.' MEG CABOT 'Here is love as freedom, love as deep joy. Romance will never be dead, as long as Bolu is writing it.' JESSIE BURTON __________ Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world. A high-born Nigerian goddess feels beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover and longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman attempts to make a great leap in her company, and an even greater one in her love life. A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether to uphold her family's politics, or to be true to her heart. Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight, or realising that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these vibrant stories try to navigate this most complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage. Moving exhilaratingly across perspectives, continents and genres, from the historic to the vividly current, Love in Colour is a celebration of romance in all of its forms. __________ PRAISE FOR LOVE IN COLOUR: 'Captivating.' Vice 'Smart and joyful, witty and heartbreaking.' Stylist 'Epic.' Bustle 'Vibrant.' Refinery29 'Brilliant and beautiful.' Net-a-Porter

The Blue Fairy Book (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Lang,... The Blue Fairy Book (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Lang, Andrew,
R985 Discovery Miles 9 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Yorkshire Notes and Queries; 2 (Hardcover): J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall Turner Yorkshire Notes and Queries; 2 (Hardcover)
J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall Turner
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hidden Realities (Hardcover): Frederick Dodson Hidden Realities (Hardcover)
Frederick Dodson
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Jack Zipes Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Jack Zipes
R2,433 Discovery Miles 24 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred, we do know that his interest in fairy tales, folklore, and the supernatural would eventually lead him to a life of travel and documentation of the stories of numerous groups across the United States and Europe. Jack Zipes selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Talesfrom five different books- The Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895-96), The Unpublished Letters of Virgil (1901), The English Gypsies (1882), and Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (1891)-and has arranged them thematically. Though these tales cannot be considered authentic folk tales-not written verbatim from the lips of Romani, Native Americans, or other sources of the tales-they are highly significant because of their historical and cultural value. Like most of the aspiring American folklorists of his time, who were mainly all white, male, and from the middle classes, Leland recorded these tales in personal encounters with his informants or collected them from friends and acquaintances, before grooming them for publication so that they became translations of the original narratives. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history. Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.

Afghan Village Voices - Stories from a Tribal Community (Hardcover): Richard Tapper, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper Afghan Village Voices - Stories from a Tribal Community (Hardcover)
Richard Tapper, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper
R2,725 Discovery Miles 27 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of the Middle East and Central Asia, Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper-Lindisfarne, this is a book of stories told by the Piruzai, a rural Afghan community of some 200 families who farmed in northern Afghanistan and in summer took their flocks to the central Hazarajat mountains. The book comprises a collection of remarkable stories, folktales and conversations and provides unprecedented insight into the depth and colour of these people's lives. Recorded in the early 1970s, the stories range from memories of the Piruzai migration to the north a half century before, to the feuds, ethnic strife and the doings of powerful khans. There are also stories of falling in love, elopements, marriages, childbirth and the world of spirits. The book includes vignettes of the narrators, photographs, maps and a full glossary. It is a remarkable document of Afghanistan at peace, told by a people whose voices have rarely been heard.

What the Children Said - Child Lore of South Louisiana (Hardcover): Jeanne Pitre Soileau What the Children Said - Child Lore of South Louisiana (Hardcover)
Jeanne Pitre Soileau
R3,150 Discovery Miles 31 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2018 Opie Prize for Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play, vividly presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it has influenced children's lives. What the Children Said affirms that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and rhymes, and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part of the family interchange. Among second grade boys and girls at a Catholic school another transcript presents numerous examples in which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression. Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest of the United States.

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