Author: Virginia Carol Kraemer CalvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas plays
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Comparative Study of Two Mexican Nativity Plays
Author: Virginia Carol Kraemer CalvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas plays
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Comparative Study of the Janos, Chihuahua, Nativity Play and a Las Vegas, New Mexico, Version
Author: Nancy Tout HancockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los pastores
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Comparative Study of Spanish Nativity Plays and Los Pastores
Author: Kenneth Clyde RawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas plays
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest
Author: Aurelio M. EspinosaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806122496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado holds a unique place in the world of Spanish folk literature. Isolated from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world for most of its history since its first settlement in 1598, it has retained, even into our own time, much of its Hispanic folkloric heritage from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-ballads, songs, poems, folktales, sayings, anecdotes, proverbs, riddles, and folk drama. In this book, written in the late 1930s and never before published, Aurelio M. Espinosa, New Mexico’s pioneer folklorist, presents the first comprehensive, authoritative account of the relict folklore, bringing together the results of his collecting during the first third of this century, in the Southwest and in Spain, and his many ground-breaking scholarly studies.
The Sources and Diffusion of the Mexican Shepherds' Plays
Author: Juan Bautista RaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Western Folklore
Author: Natural Histories of Discourse
Author: Michael SilversteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226757698
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it. Eleven original essays of "natural history" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they give an idea of the cultural processes of "entextualization" and "contextualization" of discourse that they so richly illustrate. The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology, psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists, but to all analysts of culture.
The Craft of Ritual Studies
Author: Ronald L. GrimesPublisher:
ISBN: 0195301420
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology
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Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto
Author: Bernard ArpsPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9814722154
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight. The book presents Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance's cultural complexity. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian political ideology. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.