Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
Folklore
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
The Real Roadrunner
Author: Martha Anne Maxon
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806136769
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A personal, lively, in-depth account of the life and lore of the roadrunner.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806136769
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A personal, lively, in-depth account of the life and lore of the roadrunner.
Roadrunner's Dance
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786802548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature with the necessary tools to overcome Rattlesnake.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786802548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature with the necessary tools to overcome Rattlesnake.
Wildlife Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Treasury of Western Folklore
Author: Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517052945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
"The stories, legends, tall tales, traditions, ballads and songs of the people of the Great Plains and Far West"--Jacket subtitle.
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517052945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
"The stories, legends, tall tales, traditions, ballads and songs of the people of the Great Plains and Far West"--Jacket subtitle.
Treasury of Western Folklore
Author: Outlet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517336489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517336489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Complete Language of Birds
Author: Randi Minetor
Publisher: Wellfleet
ISBN: 157715374X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Complete Language of Birds offers stunningly illustrated profiles of nearly 400 bird species, covering both their physical and mystical qualities.
Publisher: Wellfleet
ISBN: 157715374X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Complete Language of Birds offers stunningly illustrated profiles of nearly 400 bird species, covering both their physical and mystical qualities.
Roadrunner
Author: Joshua Clover
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021691
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner” captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its elaborate history, tracing its place in popular music from Chuck Berry to M.I.A. He also locates “Roadrunner” at the intersection of car culture, industrialization, consumption, mobility, and politics. Like the song itself, Clover tells a story about a particular time and place—the American era that rock & roll signifies—that becomes a story about love and the modern world.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021691
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner” captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its elaborate history, tracing its place in popular music from Chuck Berry to M.I.A. He also locates “Roadrunner” at the intersection of car culture, industrialization, consumption, mobility, and politics. Like the song itself, Clover tells a story about a particular time and place—the American era that rock & roll signifies—that becomes a story about love and the modern world.
The Urban Bestiary
Author: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316250783
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans live in closer proximity than ever before. Haupt's observations bring compelling new questions to light: Whose "home" is this? Where does the wild end and the city begin? And what difference does it make to us as humans living our everyday lives? In this wholly original blend of science, story, myth, and memoir, Haupt draws us into the secret world of the wild creatures that dwell among us in our urban neighborhoods, whether we are aware of them or not. With beautiful illustrations and practical sidebars on everything from animal tracking to opossum removal, The Urban Bestiary is a lyrical book that awakens wonder, delight, and respect for the urban wild, and our place within it.
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316250783
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans live in closer proximity than ever before. Haupt's observations bring compelling new questions to light: Whose "home" is this? Where does the wild end and the city begin? And what difference does it make to us as humans living our everyday lives? In this wholly original blend of science, story, myth, and memoir, Haupt draws us into the secret world of the wild creatures that dwell among us in our urban neighborhoods, whether we are aware of them or not. With beautiful illustrations and practical sidebars on everything from animal tracking to opossum removal, The Urban Bestiary is a lyrical book that awakens wonder, delight, and respect for the urban wild, and our place within it.
Bulletin
Author: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description