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  • African American Folktales

    Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

    by Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • African Folktales

    by Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Everyday Life

    A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

    by Roger Abrahams ...
    A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Everyday Life

    A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

    by Roger Abrahams ...
    A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Ritual Process

    Structure and Anti-Structure

    by Victor Turner, Alfred Harris, Roger Abrahams ...
    In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Blues for New Orleans

    Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

    by Roger Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Blues for New Orleans

    Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

    by Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson, Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Deep Down in the Jungle...

    by Roger D. Abrahams ...
    With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Counting-Out Rhymes

    A Dictionary

    Edited by Roger D. Abrahams, Lois Rankin ...
    Series series American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
    Eeny, meeny, figgledy, fig.Delia, dolia, dominig,Ozy, pozy doma-nozy,Tee, tau, tut,Uggeldy, buggedy, boo!Out goes you. (no. 129)You can stand,And you can sit,But, if you play,You must be it. (no. 577)Counting-out rhymes are used by children between the ages of six and eleven as a special way of choosing it and beginning play. They may be short and simple ("O-U-T spells out/And out goes you") or ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • And Other Neighborly Names

    Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

    Edited by Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams ...
    "And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Folklore by the Fireside

    Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia

    by Alessandro Falassi ...
    For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom—from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Jump-rope Rhymes

    A Dictionary

    Edited by Roger D. Abrahams ...
    Series series American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
    I had a little brother.His name was Tiny Tim.I put him in the bathtubTo teach him how to swim.He drank all the water.He ate all the soap.He died last nightWith a bubble in his throat.Jump-rope rhymes, chanted to maintain the rhythm of the game, have other, equally entertaining uses:You can dispatch bothersome younger siblings instantly—and temporarily.You can learn the name of your boyfriend ... Read more

    $23.79 USD