Book Description
More than 1500 concise and colourful entries that give details on festivals, rites of passage, plant and herblore and theories about folklore are included in this comprehensive dictionary.
Author : Alison Jones
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN :
More than 1500 concise and colourful entries that give details on festivals, rites of passage, plant and herblore and theories about folklore are included in this comprehensive dictionary.
Author : Alison Jones
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Identifies themes, figures of popular tradition, tales, modern myths, folk arts, superstitions, and characters featured in the world's folk heritage.
Author : Pierre Grimal
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Mythology
ISBN : 9780600332251
Author : Bruce Lenman
Publisher : Edinburgh ; New York, N.Y. : Larousse
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752350011
Idenifies key individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, political parties, and battles
Author : Bruce Lenman
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752350080
7,500 entries of 50 to 400 words each arranged alphabetically. Current through 1992.
Author : Robert Graves
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : 9780600023500
This book includes the myths and legends of a wide variety of world cultures, including Japan, Egypt, Greece, North America, China and India.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786471115
Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.
Author : Lorena Laura Stookey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313039372
All around the world, myths address questions that humans have always posed about their origins, their environments, their ultimate destinies, and the meanings of their lives. This book examines 30 common motifs that thread their way through mythological tales across history and around the globe. The themes are presented in alphabetical order, moving from The Afterlife and Animals in Myth to The Underworld, World Tree, and Ymir Motif. Each thematic section defines and discusses a single recognizable motif, compares a number of different mythological traditions, and traces the repeated occurrences of one of these patterns through several different categories of narratives. The discussion of The Afterlife, for example, examines the theme's earliest known occurrences in ancient Mesopotamia and compares them with those in Greek, Aztec, Norse, and other ancient cultures, as well as with contemporary views from Innuit and Polynesian cultures. A glossary provides concise definitions of recurring terms. A list of suggested readings on these topics will further aid students who desire to deepen their knowledge of world mythology.
Author : Terry Ann Mood-Leopold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1576076210
An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
Author : Robert Graves
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781851530168
A comprehensive guide to world mythology which explores in detail the sources of human civilization. Covers the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Italy, China, Japan, India, and more.