Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore "Hon"

David J Puglia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• This book tells the story of the battles that flared over Baltimore's attempts to use "hon" to construct a citywide local tradition and their conseque... Lees meer

Jewish Bodylore

Amy K Milligan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist m... Lees meer

PTSD and Folk Therapy

John Paul Wallis, Jay Mechling

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Using war memoirs, war journalism, and the personal experiences of John Paul Wallis as a Marine with two tours of duty in Iraq, Wallis and Mechling an... Lees meer

Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• This volume examines East and Southeast Asian folktales unfamiliar to most Western audiences and highlights similarities to and differences from Weste... Lees meer

Oral Traditions in Contemporary China

Juwen Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, ... Lees meer

Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality

Ronald Lamarr Sharps

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and ... Lees meer

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist po... Lees meer

Jewish Bodylore

Amy K Milligan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, ... Lees meer

Spring Man

Petr Janecek

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a s... Lees meer

Oral Traditions in Contemporary China

Juwen Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, ... Lees meer

Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining... Lees meer

Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland

Sheila M Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• By analyzing the history and current practice of two pre-wedding rituals commonly practiced by women in northeastern Scotland, Sheila M. Young provide... Lees meer

Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State

Anastasiya Astapova

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an
• Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents ov... Lees meer