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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $21.99 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

    $50.99 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

    $28.99 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

    $62.99 USD

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    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology.In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and ... Read more

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  • Russian Fairy Tales

    by Aleksandr Afanas'ev ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the ... Read more

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  • Sally's Lament

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    by Mari Mancusi ...
    Series series A Twisted Tale
    Disney’s New York Times best-selling A Twisted Tale series meets perennial fan-favorite The Nightmare Before Christmas, asking“What if Sally discovered Christmas Town instead of Jack?”Sally has mostly loved her creepy hometown of Halloween Town. But lately, she can't help but want something more. In a place full of the frightening, you'd think living in the shadows wouldn't feel so . . . isolating ... Read more

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  • Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece

    by Gustav Schwab ...
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