Old Wives' Tales (Rle Folklore)

Iris Andreski

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and b... Lees meer

Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement (Rle Folklore)

Ronald Morse

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan. Even modern Japanese folklorists who may disagree with his appr... Lees meer

Routledge Library Editions: Folklore

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• Routledge Library Editions: Folklore is a collection of previously out-of-print titles from a variety of academic imprints. It provides in one place a... Lees meer

Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement (Rle Folklore)

Ronald Morse

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This book provides a study of folklore in Japan. It also provides detail about Japanese political and literary trends which influenced or were influen... Lees meer

The Development of Soviet Folkloristics (RLE Folklore)

Dana Prescott Howell

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This volume provides an insight into the rise of folkloristics in Russia undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions. I... Lees meer

Ewe Comic Heroes (Rle Folklore)

Zinta Konrad

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and ser... Lees meer

Ewe Comic Heroes Pbdirect

Zinta Konrad

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and ser... Lees meer

Scottish Tradition (Rle Folklore)

David Buchan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 19... Lees meer

Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales Pbdirect

Reginetta Haboucha

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore sc... Lees meer

Wise Words (Rle Folklore)

Wolfgang Mieder

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Cana... Lees meer

Wise Words (Rle Folklore)

Wolfgang Mieder

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This book is the first volume in the Garland Folklore Casebook series. It contains 20 essays on various aspects of proverb studies. These 20 essays to... Lees meer

The Development of Soviet Folkloristics (Rle Folklore)

Dana Howell

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Crucial to the world history of folkloristics is this key study, first published in 1992, of the development of folklore study in the Soviet Union. No... Lees meer

Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship (RLE Folklore)

Mary Macgregor-Villarreal

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed... Lees meer

Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales Pbdirect

Reginetta Haboucha

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This book constitutes the first attempt to gather into a single body as many Judeo-Spanish tales published in Latin characters as could be assembled. ... Lees meer

Folktales of Newfoundland (Rle Folklore)

Herbert Halpert, J D a Widdowson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intenti... Lees meer

Turandot's Sisters (Rle Folklore)

Christine Goldberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• The central tale studied in Turandot's Sisters , first published in 1993, is The Princess Who Can Not Solve the Riddle, AT 851. Other wisdom tales are... Lees meer

Studies in Folk Life (Rle Folklore)

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This volume focuses on aspects of folk life studies, written in the honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate. It covers all the various aspects of folk life, fr... Lees meer

Turandot's Sisters (Rle Folklore)

Christine Goldberg

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Turandot's Sisters represents the culmination of more than a century's research on the riddle-tale subgenre by a small but distinguished group of folk... Lees meer

Old Wives' Tales (Rle Folklore)

Iris Andreski

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• The authentic voice of the tribal African woman has rarely been publicised. The picture given in these Ibibio autobiographies is strikingly different ... Lees meer

Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship (Rle Folklore)

Mary Macgregor-Villarreal

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed... Lees meer

Some Day Been Dey (Rle Folklore)

Loreto Todd

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• 'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first publish... Lees meer

The Ballad and the Folk (Rle Folklore)

David Buchan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This book shows the social context of a ballad tradition and its effects on the literature, and the functions of the literature in the social context.... Lees meer

Folktales of Newfoundland (Rle Folklore)

Herbert Halpert, J D a Widdowson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This volume is a collection of folk culture in the Newfoundland. It explores and documents the linguistic and folkloristic traditions, dialect, mummin... Lees meer

Studies in Folk Life (Rle Folklore)

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
• This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects ... Lees meer