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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Armenia. Know-it-all Tangik The customer and the hatter — Australia. Tidalick Fand the lyrebird — Brazil. The old lady and the monkey Jaguar and Goat — Croatia. The little shepherd Krat the wood goblin — Cuba. The headless dance The herons — Finland. How the trees lost their power of speech The cat and mouse — Greece. Kallo and the goblins — Guatemala. The dwarf — Haiti. Bouki wins the king’ s contest Mother Frog and her twelve children — Hmong. The orphan and the monkeys Why birds are never hungry — India. Yes dear, do The squirrel’s stripes — Indonesia. The spoiled cat Why shrimps are crooked — Japan. Spooky tanuki music Mouse teeth — Kenya. Not so! — Korea. The charming flute — Kurdish. The eyes of a cat Shengay and Pengay — Laos. A flying lesson The serving giant — Malaysia. Sumandak and the orangutan The singing top — Mexico. The owl and the painted bird — Mongolia. The four wise men The goats, the kids, and the wolves — Nepal. The cave of Halesi The River Kamala — Netherlands. How the people learned to eat potatoes — Philippines. How crab got its eyes Juan Tamad and the rice pot — Poland. Cobble Kopytko and his duck Kwak Where is the wolf? — Saudi Arabia. Jouha and his donkeys The poor lady’s plan — Siberia. Who shall I be? Why rabbit has long ears — South America. The monkey and the yacar? The night of the tatu — Thailand. The elephant and the bees The good boy — Ukraine. The Christmas spiders The little round bun.

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain — Female tricksters as double agents — While beauty sleeps : the poetics of male violence in Perceforest and Almodóvar’s Talk to her — Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire — Fairy-tale symbolism — Trickster heroes in The boy steals the ogre’s treasure — Exploring empathy and ethics in tales about three brothers — The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm — The soul music of The juniper tree — Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in the Thousand and one nights — Media-hyping of fairy tales — Transformations of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales from Hawthorne to Oz.
• Text in English.
• Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, international scholars from a range of academic disciplines explore the historical origins, cultural dissemination and psychological power of fairy stories, and offer model interpretations of tales from a variety of traditions and sources, including Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and the One Thousand and One Nights. Rather than disenchanting the stories, the essays in this volume broaden our understanding of them and deepen our appreciation of the cultural work they do. — Publisher’s description.

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• Fairy tales.
• Fairy tales — History and criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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• Text in English and Somali.
• Wise Somali leader Wiil Waal asks men to bring him the part of a sheep that symbolizes what can unite men as one.

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• Tales — Somalia.
• Somalia — Folklore.
• Folklore — Somalia.
• Somali language materials — Bilingual.
• Bilingual books.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.
• Anansi’s roots : the spinner of Asante life — Anansi’s metamorphosis : transmission and change — Anansi tactics : a resource for resistance — Anansi in the modern age.
• This interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales. Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean. He symbolizes key aspects of Afro-Caribbean culture and is celebrated as a vital link with an African past. Anansi stories, in which the small spider turns the tables on his powerful enemies through cunning and trickery, are now told and published worldwide. This original book traces Anansi’s journey from West Africa to Jamaica, where he is celebrated as a national folk hero. Anansi survived a cultural metamorphosis and came to symbolize the resistance of the Jamaican people. Anansi’s Journey begins by examining Anansi’s roots in Ghana. It moves on to detail the changes Anansi underwent during the Middle Passage and his potential for inspiring tactics of resistance in a plantation context. It ends with an analysis of Anansi’s role in postcolonial Jamaica, illustrating how he is interpreted as a symbol of individualism and celebrated as an emblem of resistance. With its broad historical sweep, tracing Anansi from Ghana through to his contested position in contemporary Jamaica, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about whether the slave trade transmitted or destroyed the culture of the enslaved. –Publisher’s website.

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• Folklore — Jamaica.
• Spiders — Folklore.
• Tricksters — Jamaica.
• Jamaica — Civilization — African influences.
• Folklore. fast (OCoLC)fst01423784

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• A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-355) and index.

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• Zombies — Encyclopedias.

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• Includes index.

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• Tales — Africa, West.

Requested by Gingerich, O.

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Part of the series The Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library;Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
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• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 345-348.

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• Tales — Africa, Sub-Saharan.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Part 1: The trickster, preparation for the hero. African profane trickster tales — Mantis and Legba, Divine tricksters. — Part 2: The trickster in the hero. The Winnebago hare Ibonia Sunjata/Sundiata The odyssey. — Part 3: The hero, with the trickster at the center. Mwindo Gilgamesh and Beowulf.
• The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world’s oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures–from The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf to Native American and African tales. Award-winning folklorist Harold Scheub explores the Trickster moment, the moment in the story when the tale, the teller, and the listener are transformed: we are both man and woman, god and human, hero and villain. Scheub delves into the importance of trickster mythologies and the shifting relationships between tricksters and heroes. He examines protagonists that figure centrally in a wide range of oral narrative traditions, showing that the true hero is always to some extent a trickster as well. The trickster and hero, Scheub contends, are at the core of storytelling, and all the possibilities of life are there: we are taken apart and rebuilt, dismembered and reborn, defeated and renewed. –Publisher’s website.

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• Tricksters — Cross-cultural studies.
• Tricksters in literature.
• Heroes — Folklore.
• Heroes in literature.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-508) and index.
• Defining tradition: on the meaning and politics of a handy concept — Explaining tradition: on folk and folkloristic logic — Building tradition: on control and authority in vernacular architecture — Making tradition: on craft in American consciousness — Adapting tradition: on folklore in human development — Fading tradition: on a dying language and lore — Personalizing tradition: on storytelling by an African American father and son — Symbolizing tradition: on the scatology of an ethnic identity — Sporting tradition: on the praxis of American football — Virtual tradition: on the Internet as a folk system.

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• Folklore — United States.
• Oral tradition — United States.
• Communication in folklore — United States.
• United States — Social life and customs.

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