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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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A. Dirr : Caucasian Folk-tales ; The Meaning of Folktales
Author: Caucasian Folk-tales
Author: Folk Tales from the Soviet Union
Author: Mikhail AnikstPublisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN: 9785050015631
Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of folk tales from the Caucasus.
The Strongest One of All
Author: Mirra GinsburgPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A lamb asks the ice, sun, cloud, rain, earth, and grass who is the strongest one of all and reaches a surprising conclusion.
Shamanic Journeys, Shamanic Stories
Author: Michael BermanPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846944023
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A shamanic journey is one that generally takes place in a trance state to the sound of a drumbeat, through dancing, or by ingesting psychoactive drugs, in which aid is sought from beings in other realities, generally for healing purposes or for divination. A shamanic story has either been based on or inspired by a shamanic journey, or one that contains a number of the elements typical of such a journey. In this collection of fascinating journeys and stories, Michael Berman reveals the healing nature of shamanic practice.
Folk Tales from the Soviet Union
Author: Mikhail AnikstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A collection of fairy tales from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
The Chechens
Author: Amjad JaimoukhaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134349890
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people and some little-known and rarely-considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music, and literature. It also narrates Chechen history from ancient times and provides sketches of archaic religions and civilizations. Jaimoukha reveals the esoteric social structure and the peculiar brand of Chechen Sufism, as well as the present political situation in Chechnya. As the only comprehensive guide available in English, this book is an indispensable and accessible resource for all those with an interest in Chechnya.
The Journal of American Folklore
Author: The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Author: Vladimir Yakovlevich ProppPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433721X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.
Russian Folk-tales
Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich AfanasʹevPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description