Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship Pbdirect: A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By Mary MacGregor-Villarreal
September 28, 2016
Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous ...
Ewe Comic Heroes Pbdirect: Trickster Tales in Togo
1st Edition
By Zinta Konrad
September 28, 2016
The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for ...
Interpreting Legend Pbdirect: Danish Storytellers and their Repertoires
1st Edition
By Timothy Tangherlini
September 28, 2016
This volume is a large collection of folk literature. It is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers....
The Development of Soviet Folkloristics Pbdirect
1st Edition
By Dana Howell
September 28, 2016
This volume provides an insight into the rise of folkloristics in Russia undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions. It is a valuable resource to all non-Russian readers....
Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
1st Edition
By Various
February 17, 2015
Routledge Library Editions: Folklore is a collection of previously out-of-print titles from a variety of academic imprints. It provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources on a wide variety of folklore topics. The international authors include academics from a number of worldwide ...