• "Estrellita de Oro" and the ritual of branding
• The censored version of Cinderellain Franco's Spain
• Performance as a Mask in La Nueva Cenicienta
• The notion of otherness through Synecdoche and Prosopopeia in Sólo un pie descalzo
• Queer Cinderella: Cenicienta en Chueca
• Cinderella as a "chick" protagonist in Cenicienta Siempre Quiso un Wonderbra
• La Cenicienta que no quería comer perdices: a Cinderella Picture book
• Suicidal Cinderella: Cenicienta en Pensilvania
• Idiotizadas: comics, folktales and feminism in Spain
• A poetic version: Te cuento ... Cenicienta
• Versions of Cinderella in Spain: a survey of primary texts.

Every culture in the world has a version of the story of Cinderella. Surveying thousands of tellings of what is perhaps the most popular fairy tale of all time, this critical examination explores how the famous folk heroine embodies common societal values, traits and ethics. Multiple adaptations in Spain-gay Cinderella, suicidal Cinderella, sensored Cinderella, masked Cinderella, porn Cinderella and others-highlight not only Spanish traditions, history and Zeitgeist, but reflect the story's global appeal on a philosophical level.
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"New, modern English translation of the folk tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, which was first published in Norway in 1841, and a second edition in 1852"-- Provided by publisher.

• Writing a dramatic history of Baltic folkloristics: methodological plurality and multidisciplinarity
• A flashback
• The drama begins
• Resistance site
• 1: folklore at the university
• Resistance site
• 2: the folklore archives
• Resistance site
• 3: the countryside
• The resurgence.

Folklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania-together called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by Germany, and lastly by the USSR at the end of the Second World War. They regained freedom in 1991. The period under the rule of the USSR brought several changes to their societies and cultures. Individuals and institutions dealing with folklore-archives, university departments, and folklorists-came under special control, attack, and surveillance. Some of the pioneer folklorists escaped to other countries, but many others witnessed their institutions and the meaning of folklore studies transformed. The USSR did not stop folklore studies but led the field to new methods. In spite of all the pressure, folklore continued to be a matter of identity, and folksongs became the marching songs of crowds resisting Soviet control in the late 1980s. Since independence in 1991, folklore scholars and institutions revamped and reconstituted folkloristics. Today all three countries have many active scholars and institutions. Sadhana Naithani recounts this resilient arc through an intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of research. She combines the study of written works, archival documents, life-stories, and conversations with folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius. She recorded conversations on video, creating current reflections on issues of the recent past. Based on the study of life-stories and oral history projects, Naithani juxtaposes the history of folkloristics and the life of the folk in the Soviet period of the Baltic countries. The result is this dramatic, first-ever history of Baltic folkloristics.
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• Introduction.- Part I: Games and Game Rhymes, Chants, and Songs.-
• Chapter 1. Starting a Game.-
• Chapter 2. Counting-out Rhymes.-
• Chapter 3. Games (Without Songs).-
• Chapter 4. Singing and Chanting Games.-
• Chapter 5. Clapping Games.-
• Chapter 6. Skipping Games.-
• Chapter 7. Ball Bouncing Games.- Part II: Rhymes, Songs, Beliefs, and Wordplay.-
• Chapter 8. School Rhymes and Parodies.-
• Chapter 9. Teasing and Taunting.-
• Chapter 10. Traditional Belief and Practice.-
• Chapter 11. Just for Fun.-
• Chapter 12. Miscellany.
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This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children. It charts continuity and development in childlore at a time of major social and cultural change and offers a detailed snapshot of changes in the traditions and language of young people. Topics include: starting a game; counting-out rhymes; games (without songs); singing and chanting games; clapping, skipping, and ball bouncing games; school rhymes and parodies; teasing and taunting; traditional belief and practice; traditional wordplay; and a concluding miscellany. Recorded mainly in the 1980s by primary schoolteacher Nigel Kelsey, transcribed verbatim from the children's own words, and accompanied by extensive commentaries and annotation, the book sets a wealth of new information in the wider historical and contemporary context of existing studies in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the English-speaking world. This valuable new resource will open new avenues for research and be of particular interest to folklorists and linguists, as well as to those working across the full spectrum of social, cultural, and educational studies.
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Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork offers a comprehensive review of the ethnographic process for developing a project, implementing the plan, and completing and preserving the data collected. Throughout, readers will find a detailed methodology for conducting different types of fieldwork such as digital ethnography or episodic research, tips and tricks for key elements like budgeting and funding, and practical advice and examples gleaned from the authors own fieldwork experiences. This handbook also helps fieldworkers fully grasp and understand the ways in which power, gender, ethnicity, and other identity categories are ever present in fieldwork and guides students to think through these dynamics at each stage of research. Written accessibly for lay researchers working in different mediums and on projects of varying size, this step-by-step manual will prepare the reader for the excitement, challenges, and rewards of ethnographic research.
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• Foreword. The goose is out: toward new paradigms in folklore studies / Anand Prahlad
• Introduction / Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins, and Todd Richardson
• ONE. Our Lady of Authenticity: folklore's articles of faith / Willow G. Mullins ; Email from Nebraska / Todd Richardson ; On fanfiction and the amateur/professional divide / Shelley Ingram
• TWO. Misanthropelore / Todd Richardson ; Revelry: Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman / Shelley Ingram
• THREE. The footprints of ghosts: fictional folklorists in the work of Gloria Naylor, Lee Smith, Randall Kenan, and Colson Whitehead / Shelley Ingram ; The folklore of small things / Willow G. Mullins ; The #landmass between New Orleans and Mobile: neglect, race, and the cost of invisibility / Shelley Ingram
• FOUR. A folkloristics of death: absence, sustainability, and ghosts in the film Welcome to Pine Point / Willow G. Mullins ; Check Snopes: cyborg folklore in the internet age / Willow G. Mullins ; "Judas!" / Todd Richardson
• FIVE. White folks: literature's uncanny, unhomely folklore of whiteness / Shelley Ingram ; Where have all the hoaxes gone? / Willow G. Mullins
• SIX. Folklore in vacuo (and other disciplinary predicaments) / Todd Richardson.

In Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies, authors Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins, and Todd Richardson talk about things folklorists don't usually talk about. They ponder the tacit aspects of folklore and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated expectations placed upon people whenever they talk about folklore and how those expectations necessarily affect the folklore they are talking about. The book's chapters are wide-ranging in subject and style, yet they all orbit the idea that much of folklore, both as a phenomenon and as a field, hinges upon unspoken or absent assumptions about who people are and what people do. The authors articulate theories and methodologies for making sense of these unexpressed absences, and, in the process, they offer critical new insights into discussions of race, authenticity, community, literature, popular culture, and scholarly authority. Taken as a whole, the book represents a new and challenging way of looking again at the ways groups come together to make meaning. In addition to the main chapters, the book also includes eight "interstitials, " shorter studies that consider underappreciated aspects of folklore. These discussions, which range from a consideration of knitting in public to the ways that invisibility shapes an internet meme, are presented as questions rather than answers, encouraging readers to think about what more folklore and folklore studies might discover if only practitioners chose to look at their subjects from angles more cognizant of these unspoken gaps.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Storyteller Biographies Glossary of Frequently Used Sami Terms Index of Significant Place-Names
• 1 Songs Joik Songs Cradle Song Bear Song Reindeer Song Raven Song The Tawny Owl Whitefish Livde Trout The Old Man Haeaenda-Maati Joik Taavvad-Piera Joik Listroem Aila-Jussa Ristnaa-Piatar Eerki-Piera Other Songs Stuorravuona (Isovuono) Market Song The Girl's Song This and That Vainamoeinen's Nephew I Saw Daughter and Mother Song The Fiancee's Beauty
• 2 Animal Tales The Fox's Tale The Fox's Tale, Version 2 The Fox and the Fisherman The Story of the Fox's Blindness The Man and the Bear The Bear and Fox's Wild Reindeer Hunt The Mouse and the Cat The Raven and the Fox The Horse and the Wolf The Fox and the Hare The Wagtail and the Dipper The Story of the Moose and the Bear
• 3 Fairy Tales The Poor Boy and the King's Daughter The Great Lord's Son-in-Law The Boy and the Golden Bird Acorn Finding Endless Discontent The Reindeer Calf's Hooves Mattias the Fearless and the Devil & Mattias the Fearless The Man Who Lashed His Fortune The Story of Three Girls
• 4 Short Tales The Resourceful Boy The King and the Bank Thief A Merchant God's Miracles Menis-Antti's Life Story The Poor Boy's Wedding Luck
• 5 Humorous Stories and Anecdotes The Noaidi Axe The Travels of the Cudit The Wife's Stupidity Shingle-Stick The Story of the Girl's Spinning Rack The Girl and Her Suitor The Fool's Doorposts Three Lazy People Good Day-Axe Handle It Is Truly True The Butter Churn The Wild Reindeer Hunters
• 6 Belief Legends Etiological Legends Aaccan, Who Tarred the Moon The Stallu The Stallu, Version 1 The Stallu, Version 2 The Stallu, Version 3 The Stallu, Version 4 The Stallu, Version 5 Andras Pejvi Gufihtarat The Maker of Seven Churches Gufihtar Cahalig-Treasure Guardians Cahalig Cahalig, Version 2 Giants A Giant Fights with Small Men Two Giants The Sieidi The Sieidi Root Cluster A Story about AEjjih Island The Sieidi of Ij-javri Noaidi Tales The Old Man Noaidi Skolt Sami Noaiddit The Noaidi Wife The Moose Skiers Two Jealous People Shapeshifting Tales The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law, Version 2 The Bear Daughter-in-Law Ghost Hauntings Sarnoo kurra (Speaker's Gorge) The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi, Version 2 The Pastor and the Sexton
• 7 Historical and Regional Legends Sigga's Legend Sigga's Weeping Strait The Cannibal Vuolli of Ij-javri The Maiden Hannaa 's Decapitation Story The Dead Constable The Fight of the Constables The Late Raassa Piajaa Famed Antt-Piattar's Eelli , Fiance-Waiter She Who Went to Sleep as a Maiden and Woke as a Wife
• 8 Stories about Cudit Cudit The Cudit on the Move A Story from the Time of Cudit The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow, Version 2 The Death of the Cudit Futile Fear The Disobedient Daughter Lauruka The Cudit Fall into a Ravine The Cudit Drown in the Rapids The Cudit Die of Hunger The Cudit Drown in Lake Aanaar-- Hundred Pine Island Hundred Pine Island, Version 2 Lauruka Kills Cudit with a Sword
• 9 Peeivih-Vualappa The Feats of Peeivih-Vualappa About Peeivih-Vualappa 's Father, Peeivih Peeivih-Vualappa Burns a Sieidi Peeivih-Vualappa Burns a Sieidi, Version 2 The Capstone Peeivih-Vualappa on the Sea Shore Peeivih-Vualappa on the Sea Shore, Version 2 Peeivih-Vualappa Fighting Peeivih-Vualappa Fighting, Version 2 Peeivih-Vualappa Hunting Wild Reindeer Peeivih-Vualappa 's Race with a Draught Reindeer
• 10 Stories about the Skolts Scaring the Skolt Wife Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 2 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 3 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 4 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 5 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 6 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 7 Kaassa
• 11 Hunting Stories The Late Haannu 's Bear and Wild Reindeer Hunt A Draught Reindeer as a Wild Reindeer The Bear Hunter The Soddy Root Ball as a Bear Menis-Antti's Bear Hunting Stories A Bear Story The Bear Hunters The Girls and the Bear The Bear and the Women The Squirrel Hunters The Wild Reindeer Skiers The Moose Hunters Irjan-Anna ja Antti on a Fishing Excursion to Laggujavri (Lankojarvi) The Ermine Hunters
• 12 Personal Experience Narratives The Life of One Aanaar Sami An Aanaar Marriage and Life Story Some Misfortune The Old Man of Soadigil's (Sodankyla) Forest Memories The Autumnal Wild-Reindeer Hunt in Aanaar Vuavnum (Vuongunta), or Hunting Wild-Reindeer in the Spring Juonastim (Juomustus) and Netting Under the Ice
• 13 Proverbs and Figures of Speech Proverbs Sayings and Expressions
• 14 Riddles
• 15 Omens and Signs Appendix A North Sami Joiks Juhan Vesta's Joik Menis-Irjan Mihkkus-Aslak Let us Leave Pulju Ninka-Ula Kare Pike Burbot Perch Stories The Lazy One Skolt Sami Story Letters Appendix B Introduction to the 1978 Edition by Lea Laitinen Introduction to the 1917 Edition by August V. Koskimies Notes Bibliography Index.
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A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sami oral tradition available in English to date. Collected by August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen in the 1880s from nearly two dozen storytellers from the arctic Aanaar (Inari) region of northeast Finland, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community. First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sami language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition for a global readership. Translator Tim Frandy has added biographies of the storytellers, maps and period photos, annotations, and a glossary. In headnotes that contextualize the stories, he explains such underlying themes as Aanaar conflicts with neighboring Sami and Finnish communities, the collapse of the wild reindeer populations less than a century before, and the pre-Christian past in Aanaar. He introduces us to the bawdy humor of Antti Kitti, the didacticism of Iisakki Mannermaa, and the feminist leanings of Juho Petteri Lusmaniemi, emphasizing that folktales and proverbs are rooted in the experiences of individuals who are links in a living tradition.
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• Preface List of illustrations Introduction The Dragon and Medieval Scholarship The Dragon and Medieval Religion The Medieval Dragon and Folklore The Dragon and Medieval Literature Outlook and Conclusion Endnotes Further reading Bibliography Index.
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The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types. Based on an intimate knowledge of the primary texts, the study presents new interpretations of well-known literary works, and also takes into consideration paintings and other depictions of these beasts. Dragons were designed not only to frighten but also to fire the imagination, and provide a suitably huge and evil creature for the hero to overcome - yet there is far more to them than reptilian adversaries. This book introduces the medieval dragon via brief, accurate and clear chapters on its natural history, religion, literature and folklore, and concludes with how the dragon - from Beowulf to Tolkien, Disney and Potter - is constantly revived.
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• Introduction : La parole orale africaine : une culture "tentaculaire" à vocation universelle
• Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele, Université de Lubumbashi
• La question
• Du verbe à la culture "tentaculaire"
• La parole orale africaine et l'écriture : de la tradition à la modernité
• Le continuum à travers le temps : préserver l'héritage en le faisant connaître
• Le continuum à travers le temps : revaloriser l'héritage
• La parole orale africaine au-delà de ses frontières : de l'essence universelle
• De la relecture du patrimoine oral africain aux perspectives
• Oralité africaine
• Esthétique de l'oralité africaine
• C.M. Gisèle Piebop, Université de Yaoundé 1
• L'oralité africaine et celle d'ailleurs
• Marques de l'oralité africaine
• Le proverbe
• La maxime
• Le conte
• L'épopée
• La légende
• La généalogie
• Le chant
• La prière
• La communication tambourinée
• Traits supplémentaires de l'oralité africaine
• Le coquerico
• Les cris des chimpanzés, des hiboux et des chiens
• Le costume
• La mimogestualité
• Les odeurs maléfiques
• Les rituels magico-religieux
• Les silences éloquents
• Conclusion
• Bibliographie
• Pertinence et limites des recherches en littératures orales africaines : état des lieux et perspectives
• Alain Joseph Sissao, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique/Ouagadougou
• Quelques tendances méthodologiques et problèmes au cours de l'étude des littératures orales
• Les études linguistiques
• Les études ethnosociologiques
• Les études psychologiques
• Les études stylistiques
• Les études des structures
• Les études de contenus
• Synthèse
• L'évolution de la littérature orale
• L'inscription de l'oralité dans la littérature écrite africaine
• L'Identification des interférences de type emprunts lexicaux et leur traduction
• Nature des destinataires de ces interférences
• Identification des genres oraux chez Kourouma
• Les traces de l'oralité moaaga chez quelques romanciers burkinabè : l'utilisation des yelbuna ou proverbes
• Généralités Afrique
• Articles sur la littérature orale africaine
• Ouvrages sur la littérature orale africaine
• Romans
• Articles et études sur la problématique de l'oralité dans le roman
• Pour ou contre Claude Bremond. La néo-oralité en République démocratique du Congo
• Crispin Maalu-Bungi, Université de Kinshasa
• Oralité primaire (Ong, 30)/Oralité primaire ou pure (Zumthor, 36)
• Les chants
• Les légendes urbaines/légendes contemporaines
• Les proverbes
• Oralité secondaire (Ong, 31)/Oralité seconde/oralité médiatisée (Zumthor, 36)
• Les textes transcrits
• Oralité médiatisée/oralité en zone intermédiaire
• Les traces de la tradition orale dans la poésie de Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
• Dieudonné Moukuoamou Mwendo, Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville
• Les croyances à tendance religieuses : entre divinisation et élan animiste
• Les croyances populaires : entre légendes et idées reçues
• Quand le monde des vivants rencontre celui des morts
• Les oeuvres du corpus
• Les autres ouvrages et articles cités

• De la narration orale à la narration écrite. Cas des structures narratives chez Zamenga Batukezanga
• Léandre Mbolyo Kimpinde, Université de Lubumbashi
• Eclairages conceptuels
• Tradition orale et littérature orale
• Principales variétés de la narration orale
• De la narration orale au récit moderne
• Techniques narratives, ressources stylistiques et esthétique générale
• Organisation du temps et de l'espace
• Corpus
• Ouvrage général
• Ouvrages critiques
• Article
• Thèse de doctorat
• Sites web
• Traditions africaines
• Traditions africaines et spiritualité fàq-bidù-bàti : Dieux et divinités : acceptions, fonctions et nécessité
• Marie-Rose Abomo-Maurin, Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroun)
• Le monothéisme des Fàn-Biilù-Bàti et l'instauration de nouvelles divinités
• Les dieux de Môbdtôq et les autres
• Traditions, spiritualité, culte des ancêtres et sociétés secrètes
• Place et culte des ancêtres chez les Fàu-13ùlù-Bàti
• Sociétés et associations secrètes
• Croyances, spiritualité et régulation de la société
• Croyances et interdits
• Transgression, rites et purification
• L'épopée Nkenge ou l'esthétique d'une légende de la construction historique kongo
• Jean-Félix Yekoka, Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville Introduction
• La légende : essai de construction de l'environnement géographique et social
• Jalousie et mise à mort de Nkenge
• Le récolteur de noix de palme et le chant de la résurrection de Nkenge
• La consultation du nganga et le retour de Nkenge parmi les siens
• Le retournement de situation
• Furu : rituel et oralité dans le mariage chez les Dioula de Darsalamy (Burkina Faso)
• Ignace Sangaré, Université Ouaga 1 Professeur Joseph
• Ki-Zerbo Laboratoire Discours et Pratiques Artistiques
• Les types d'alliances chez les Dioula de Darsalamy
• Le mariage consanguin : "balima furu" ou "lamogoya furu"
• Le mariage selon les coutumes "laada furu"
• La ritualité et l'oralité dans le mariage
• Les étapes prénuptiales : la demande de main de la femme muso bolo daari
• Le déroulement des noces
• Le dimanche : kono dogo
• Le lundi
• Le mardi : le jour du "tikcri toron ba" ou grand jeu de battement de mains
• Le mercredi
• Le jeudi
• Le vendredi : le grand jour de cuisine
• Le samedi
• Le dimanche
• Signification et symbole des différentes cérémonies en fonction de certains jours
• Significations et symboliques des différentes cérémonies du jeudi
• Significations et symboliques des différentes cérémonies du dimanche
• Tableau récapitulatif des différentes cérémonies
• Images socioculturelles de la femme à travers la parole féminine : une lecture du discours contuel des Massa du Cameroun et du Tchad
• Paul Samsia, Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroun)
• Le profil dépréciatif de la femme dans les contes
• Un être infidèle
• Un être hypocrite
• Un être méchant
• Le profil valorisant de la femme dans les contes
• La procréatrice et la dispensatrice de tendresse
• La courageuse et la travailleuse
• Corpus
• L'anthroponymie et l'environnement chez les Logos
• Clémentine Alaruka Anzo-Aga, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Lubumbashi

• Présentation générale
• Le milieu physique
• La population
• La dation des noms chez les Logo
• Analyse des conditions d'attribution de noms
• Les thèmes des anthroponymes logo
• Evolution des anthroponymes logo
• Relation entre environnement et anthroponymie
• L'environnement dans la musique congolaise : représentations esthétiques et jugements éthiques
• La préservation de l'environnement : un défi sociétal
• La biosphère dans l'univers expressif
• Les aspects esthétiques
• Les aspects culturels
• Une quête éthique et mystique
• Modernité en Afrique
• Langue orale africaine comme atout d'un développement durable du continent noir à l'ère de la mondialisation
• Civilisation déséquilibrée : gage d'un développement compromis de l'Afrique
• Oralité comme creuset, mode de conservation et de transmission des valeurs culturelles en Afrique traditionnelle
• Refondation de la pensée sociétale comme cosmovision de l'Afrique noire à l'ère de la mondialisation
• Quelle littérature orale enseigner dans l'Afrique actuelle ?
• L'occidentalité
• L'africanité
• Des chemins culturels de libération africaine
• Des textes oraux de résistance, de réaction et d'innovation
• De l'oralité à l'écriture : les enjeux pour une Afrique noire à travers les personnages historiques de Chaka et de Soundjata
• Le monde de l'oralité ou la communication authentique
• Traits caractéristiques de l'oralité
• Valeurs idéologiques et éducatives de l'oralité
• De l'oralité à l'écriture, une nécessité
• L'écriture comme source de conservation et de pérennisation des richesses de l'oralité
• Les enjeux : les cas des personnages historiques de Chaka Zoulou et de Soundjata Kéita
• Ouvrages et articles sur la littérature orale africaine
• Les romans de In Koli Jean Bofane : exploration d'une modernité africaine
• Mathématiques congolaises
• Congo Inc. Le testament de Bismarck
• La Belle de Casa
• Bibliographie
• OEuvres de In Koli Jean Bofane
• Ouvrages et articles
• L'écriture comme duplicité linguistique et hybridité identitaire dans l'oeuvre d'Ahmadou Kourouma : du témoignage social à l'imaginaire mythique
• Fellah-Jemmali Habiba, Université de Sousse (Tunisie)
• La créativité langagière : une esthétique scripturale axée sur la pensée mythique et les traditions orales
• Le rôle de la transgression linguistique dans l'écriture ou l'émergence de la culture mythique dans le roman francophone moderne
• La technique de l'oralisation dans l'écriture et son rapport avec l'imaginaire social moderne
• La fiction francophone : du témoignage social sur l'identité à l'imaginaire mythique
• OEuvres d'Ahmadou Kourouma
• Ouvrages théoriques et critiques sur les littératures africaines - OEuvre de Référence ? Ahmadou Kourouma
• L'oralité au secours de la mémoire et de l'énergie créatrices : quels mécanismes, quels contenus et pour quelles finalités ?
• Le travail des pionniers pour la collecte et la transcription-traduction de l'oralité
• Comprendre l'oralité et ses spécificités
• Les manifestations de l'oralité en situation de communication
• L'oralité au secours de la pensée imaginatrice et de la créativité

• Lecture pragmatique d'une oralité "politiquement incorrecte" de Maryse Condé
• Daniel Canda Kishala, Université de Lubumbashi
• Maryse Condé, une oralité mythique
• Maryse Condé, une oralité en parabole
• La parabole est un hyperbolisme
• La parabole est une investigation
• La parabole est une représentation
• La parabole est une agression
• Maryse Condé, une oralité de femme ou dire la femme
• Le contexte socioculturel
• La vision thématique et esthétique
• La théorie littéraire
• Quel texte africain pour quelle modernité
• Julien Kilanga Musinde, Université d 'Angers L'africanité du texte africain
• Quelle modernité pour un texte africain
• Qu'est-ce qui fonde l'africanité et la modernité d'un texte africain ?
• Le roman de Nathalie Philippe, 2 couples, 2 mariages : un cas d'illustration
• L'histoire et les personnages : les traces de l'africanité et de la modernité du texte
• Des traits illustratifs de l'africanité et de la modernité du texte à travers quelques extraits
• Que conclure ?
• Nollywood dans le continuum de la transmission des traditions orales africaines
• Françoise Ugochukwu, Open University (UK) Achebe - l'histoire igbo à l'écran
• Nollywood et l'ancrage traditionnel
• La caisse de résonance des croyances
• La famille aux prises avec les forces occultes
• La remise en question des pratiques traditionnelles
• Le facteur de diaspora
• En conclusion
• Bibliographie
• Films cités
• Les "mabanga", une pratique de publicité dans la société de l'oralité
• Kasongo Tshinzela Joseph, Université de Lubumbashi
• Les mabanga, phénomène d'oralité et de publicité
• La musique congolaise et le phénomène mabanga
• Le lien entre la musique et la publicité
• La musique congolaise et la publicité
• Les supports de la publicité et des mabanga
• Le rapprochement entre les mabanga et la publicité
• Les mabanga vers la publicité
• Les mabanga une publicité de l'oralité
• Le contexte de production et de réception
• Mémoires Plurielles entre oralité et écriture au Burundi : problématique d'archivage
• Nadine Nibigira, Doctorante à l'Université du Burundi
• Aperçu historique des "traditions orales" et de l'archivage au Burundi
• Position du Problème de l'archivage au Burundi
• Archives de souveraineté
• Archives de gestion
• L'archivage et l'homme pluriel
• L'impérative nécessité d'une analyse interne des traditions orales archivées
• Archivage au Burundi avant l'écriture et l'homme comme "support"
• Archivage : définition et nature des archives
• Archivage des traditions orales
• Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (NTIC) au Burundi : un archivage protégé et diversifié
• Illusion de la primauté de l'écriture sur l'oralité : entre parallélisation des mémoires et déformation de l'information
• Complémentarité et dynamisme de cohabitation entre l'écrit et l'oral... pour conclure
• Les arts de la parole au service des arts du spectacle. L'expérience de l'Institut National des Arts
• André Yoka Lye, Institut National des Arts
• Les cultures orales : les questions épistémologiques
• Culture orale et mémoire, généalogique
• Culture et littérature orale

• Frobenius et les strates symboliques de la littérature orale
• Expressions et pratiques "orales"
• La question des langues nationales
• Littérature musicale : fête des mots
• Les arts de la parole
• Les initiatives de l'Institut National des Arts (INA)
• Conclusion
• Présentation des auteurs
• Marie-Rose Abomo-Maurin
• Clémentine Alaruka Anzo-Aga
• Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele
• Daniel Canda Kishala
• Bernadette Desorbay
• Fellah-Jemmali Hab ib a
• Evariste Ibili Akwer
• Ernest Kabange Mukala
• Joseph Kasongo Tshinzela
• Julien Kilanga Musinde
• Crispin Maalu-Bungi
• Léandre Mbolyo Kimpinde
• Dieudonné Moukouamou
• Fidèle Mwepu Kalenga
• Nadine Nibigira
• Domitien Nizigiyimana
• Gisèle M.C. Piebop
• Paul Samsia
• Ignace Sangaré
• Alain Joseph Sissao
• Françoise Ugochukwu
• Stevio Ulrick Baral-Angui
• Yapo Ludovic Mousso
• Jean-Félix Yekoka
• Lye M. Yoka.

"La "dilection particulière" avec laquelle la tradition orale africaine a cultivé "certaines vertus de l'homme" repose sur l'équilibre de la fusion communautaire et, surtout, sur la "position dominante" de son expression sous forme artistique. Tout est finalement littérature, poésie. La littérature orale traditionnelle africaine devient un tout d'où émanent toutes les pratiques de vie, une culture "tentaculaire". Elle est aussi une conception collective de l'art : tout le monde joue le rôle d'inspirateur, d'artiste et de récepteur (donc de critique aussi). La relecture de la tradition est une oeuvre collective. Le spectacle est mené par le conteur, mais il est produit par toute l'assistance. La littérature orale traditionnelle africaine est par ailleurs une parole instauratrice de mutations sociales : porteuse d'un message relatif à toute la vie socioculturelle de l'homme, à savoir la fixation des lois de la culture, l'expression de l'idéologie communautaire, etc. Cette vision de l'oralité africaine s'est constituée, au fil du temps, en un héritage maintenu et transmis, par un mouvement de continuum : "un héritage de connaissances de tous ordres" (A. Hampâté Bâ). Les tourbillons de l'histoire ont bousculé cependant la tradition orale africaine et, ainsi, ont ouvert l'Afrique aux valeurs culturelles étrangères. La pratique de l'écriture a exigé un nouveau mode d'organisation de la parole orale. Aujourd'hui, l'oralité africaine dialogue et fait finalement route commune avec l'écriture. Ce volume constitue une tentative de relecture du patrimoine oral africain en vue d'en évaluer les pratiques culturelles et de proposer des perspectives positives. Dans l'ensemble, ce livre voudrait établir, aujourd'hui, une synergie entre oralité, traditions et modernité, synergie pouvant déboucher sur des programmes d'actions de développement durable."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: definition, concepts, and theories of a diverse, mobile nation / Simon J. Bronner
• Historiography and intellectual history / Jill Terry Rudy
• Folk ideas, themes, and worldview of Americanness / Jay Mechling
• Methods and tools of American folklore & folklife studies / Anthony Buccitelli
• Applications, presentations, and uses of folklore and folklife research / Gregory Hansen
• Speech, names, and gestures / Charles Clay Doyle
• Proverbs and related sayings / Wolfgang Mieder
• Poetics of rhymes, inscriptions, and recitations / Elizabeth Tucker
• Tales, myths, and storytelling / Frank deCaro
• Jokes, pranks, and humor / Moira Marsh
• Legends, anecdotes, and personal narratives / Elizabeth Tucker
• Beliefs, rituals, and customs / Jack Santino
• Drama, performance, and festival / Lisa Gabbert
• Music, ballad, & song / Stephen D. Winick
• Dance and movement / Eric Cesar Morales
• Play, games, toys, and sports / Fernando Orejuela
• Buildings, constructions, and landscapes / Simon Bronner
• Art, aesthetics graphics, and crafts / Kurt Dewhurst & Marsha MacDowell
• Markers, shrines, and icons / Holly Everett
• Dress and bodylore / Amy Milligan
• Foodways and dining / Lucy Long
• Medicine and health practices / Andrea Kitta
• Regions, environments, and reservations / Brant Ellsworth
• Town, farm, & country / Troy Boyer
• Cities, streets, and suburbs / David Puglia
• Waters, islands, and shores / Shelly Drummond
• Borderlands, territories, and frontiers / Anthony Buccitelli
• Internet and media / Robert Glenn Howard
• Home and vehicle / Cory Hutcheson
• Schools and colleges / Simon J. Bronner
• Total institutions: military bases, prisons, hospitals, and camps / Jay Mechling
• Native and indigenous America / Tom Mould
• Race and ethnicity / Anand Prahlad
• Immigrant, refugee, and transnational groups / Fariha Khan
• Religious, communal, and belief communities / William Clements
• Occupational groups / Nancy Groce
• Age, life passage, and generational groups / Spencer Green
• Family and friends / Caren S. Neile
• Organizations and social networks / Simon Bronner
• Men, women, and other gendered identities / Lisa Gilman
• Sexual orientation and practice communities / James Tyler Chadwell
• Body, neurodiverse, and ability-centered identities / Sheila Bock.

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters delve into significant themes and methods of folklore and folklife study; established expressions and activities; spheres and locations of folkloric action; and shared cultures and common identities. Beyond the longstanding arenas of academic focus developed throughout the 350-year legacy of folklore and folklife study, contributors at the forefront of the field also explore exciting new areas of attention that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. Encompassing a wide range of cultural traditions in the United States, from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to group festivals, these chapters consider the meanings in oral, social, and material genres of dance, ritual, drama, play, speech, song, and story while drawing attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Weaving together such varied and manifest traditions, this handbook pays significant attention to the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries that have always been distinctive in the American experience, reflecting on the relative youth of the nation; global connections of customs brought by immigrants; mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous, urbanized, and racialized population; and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. Edited by leading folklore scholar Simon J. Bronner, this handbook celebrates the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.
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A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of purakau - Maori myths - by contemporary Maori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . . Ancient Maori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, some are firmly grounded in New Zealand and its landscape. Through countless generations, the stories have been reshaped and passed on. This new collection presents a wide range of traditional myths that have been retold by some of our best Maori wordsmiths. The writers have added their own creativity, perspectives and sometimes wonderfully unexpected twists, bringing new life and energy to these rich, spellbinding and significant taonga. Take a fresh look at Papatuanuku, a wild ride with Maui, or have a creepy encounter with Ruruhi-Kerepo, for these and many more mythical figures await you. Explore the past, from it shape the future . . . The contributors are- Jacqueline Carter, David Geary, Patricia Grace, Briar Grace-Smith, Whiti Hereaka, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Kelly Joseph, Hemi, Kelly, Nic Low, Tina Makereti, Kelly Ana Morey, Paula Morris, Frazer Rangihuna, Renee, Robert Sullivan, Apirana Taylor, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Clayton Te Kohe, Hone Tuwhare, Briar Wood.
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"Ce que le lecteur va découvrir, ce n'est pas seulement un corpus de fictions, de récits, de scénarios dont il ne soupçonnait pas l'étendue, mais à quel point "conter" est ici névralgique, pour Louise Michel (1830-1905) et dans sa fin de siècle. Aujourd'hui encore, par un préjugé tenace, la Louise Michel qui écrit ne peut être qu'un auteur d'histoire : on oublie l'écrivain. Or il faudrait au moins ajouter un "s" à "histoire". Si le vainqueur écrit l'histoire ou pense l'écrire, le vaincu écrit des histoires - si vraies qu'elles s'élaborent en légende - pour exprimer l'autre côté, le souterrain, l'utopie, ce qui n'est pas encore, la Révolution. Chez elle, le rêve et l'action ne font qu'un, l'histoire et l'imaginaire résonnent. Et quel imaginaire ! Amie du symbole et du frisson, Louise Michel puise en romantique dans le tréfonds légendaire pour l'infléchir : Haute-Marne dont elle était native, monde kanak où elle fut déportée, Bretagne qui la fascine, Paris glauque de la fin du XIXe siècle, même veillée ! Ses contes sont peuplés de vrais ogres, de Barbes Bleues de chair et de sang, tel Gilles de Rais ; ce sont des contes de la puanteur, de la dévoration, de la nécrophilie, de la consommation de chair plus ou moins fraîche ; ce sont des mondes qui s'engloutissent... mais aussi des mondes qui s'éveillent, des harmonies de la nature et des cosmogonies. Les uns sont connus, comme les légendes kanak, ou méconnus, comme Le Livre du Jour de l'An, pour les enfants (jamais réédité) ; d'autres, retrouvés sur les manuscrits ou dans la presse du temps, sont inédits. Rigoureusement présentés et annotés par Claude Rétat, ils sont ici réunis pour la première fois. Cessant d'être épars et cloisonnés, ils peuvent communiquer et nous parler."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• 1 Seeking a Solution for the Nation: The Folklore Movement's Origins at National Peking University
• 2 Carrying on amidst Chaos: Establishment of Folklore Studies in South China
• 3 Developing an Excellent Situation: The Spread of the Folklore Movement in China
• 4 Breaking with the Past: The Folklore Movement in Wartime Conclusion Appendices-- Notes-- Glossary-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement burst onto the scene at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of literary scholars, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study and revitalization of folklore - popular songs, beliefs, and customs - to rally the people around the flag during an era of deep postwar disillusionment. Saving the Nation through Culture opens a new chapter in the world history of the Folklore Movement by exploring the origins and evolution of the discipline's Chinese branch. Gao reveals that intellectuals in the New Culture Movement influenced the founding folklorists with their aim to repudiate Confucianism following the Chinese Republic's failure to modernize the nation. The folklorists, however, faced a unique challenge - advocating for modern academic methods and constructions while upholding folklore as the key to the nation's salvation. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Modern Folklore Movement failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the Chinese nation. But it helped establish a modern discipline, promoting a spirit of academic independence that continues to influence Chinese intellectuals today.
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• Contents<\>
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• Part 1 Spatial and National Contexts
• 1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination
• 2. Sfakians in the Nation-State
• Part 2 On Hegemony
• 3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators
• 4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"
• 5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History
• 6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and Scientists
• Part 3 Modernity and Its Discontents
• 7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic
• 8. Sfakians and Tourists
• Epilogue
• Biobliography
• Index.
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Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition. From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable, emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels, the book unpacks the question of power and asymmetry but also uncovers other political possibilities that are nested in visual culture and experiences of tradition and the past. Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and subjection.
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• Contents Translator's Note Introduction Elk, Lucky Reindeer, Reindeer Luck, and Wizardry Sickness Spirits Murdered Children Animals Folktales Russian Chudes and Other Enemies Field Notes and Commentary Afterword. "Here They Can Still Tell Stories": Sami Folklore and the Storytellers of By the Fire Barbara Sjoholm Selected Bibliography.
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The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale collections, stories told by the indigenous Nordic Sami themselves are rare in English translation. The stories in By the Fire, collected by the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958) during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadic Sami in Swedish Sapmi, are the exception-and a matchless pleasure, granting entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril, of nature imbued with spirits, and strangers to be outwitted with gumption and craft. Between 1907 and 1916 Demant Hatt recorded tales of magic animals, otherworldly girls who marry Sami men, and cannibalistic ogres or Stallos. Many of her storytellers were women, and the memorable tales included in this collection tell of plucky girls and women who outfox their attackers (whether Russian bandits, mysterious Dog-Turks, or Swedish farmers) and save their people. Here as well are tales of ghosts and pestilent spirits, murdered babies who come back to haunt their parents, and legends in which the Sami are both persecuted by their enemies and cleverly resistant. By the Fire, first published in Danish in 1922, features Demant Hatt's original linoleum prints, incorporating and transforming her visual memories of Sapmi in a style influenced by the northern European Expressionists after World War I. With Demant Hatt's field notes and commentary and translator Barbara Sjoholm's Afterword (accompanied by photographs), this first English publication of By the Fire is at once a significant contribution to the canon of world literature, a unique glimpse into Sami culture, and a testament to the enduring art of storytelling.
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This book is a dictionary of British (native, naturalised and cultivated) plants and the folklore associated with them. Unlike many plant-lore publications Vickery's Folk Flora tells us what people currently do and believe, rather than what Victorians did and believed. The result is a vivid demonstration that plant folklore in the British Isles is not only surviving but flourishing; adapting and evolving as time goes by, even in urban areas. Each entry includes: - The plant's English and scientific (Latin) name, as well as significant local names. - A brief description of the plant and its distribution, and, in the case of cultivated plants, a history of their introduction to the British Isles - Information on the folklore and traditional uses of the plant, arranged where possible in a sequence starting with general folk beliefs (superstitions), use in traditional customs, use in folk medicine, other uses, and legends concerning individual representatives of the plant. In addition to the major entries there are a number of minor entries for feast days, diseases and other subjects which direct readers to relevant major entries, e.g. St. George's Day, on which red roses are worn; dandelions are gathered; and runner beans are planted.
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• Foreword Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Setting
• 3 Notes on the Manuscript, the Transcription, and the Translation
• Translation
• 4 The Translation
• 5 The Narrative and Its Meanings
• Bibliography
• The Manuscript: Transcription
• The Manuscript: Facsimile.
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For generations, Central Asian Muslims have told legends of medieval rulers who waged war, died in battle, and achieved sainthood. Among the Uyghurs of East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China), some of the most beloved legends tell of the warrior-saint Satuq Bughra Khan and his descendants, the rulers of the Qarakhanid dynasty. To this day, these tales are recited at the saints' shrines and retold on any occasion. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road introduces this rich literary tradition, presenting the first complete English translation of the Qarakhanid narrative cycle along with an accessible commentary. At once mesmerizing, moving, and disturbing, these legends are essential texts in Central Asia's religious heritage as well as fine, enduring works of mystical literature.
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• La plus belle est à l'en-bas de la baille
• La Madame Kéléman
• Une graine de giraumon
• Le musicien Petit Bonhomme
• Une affaire de mariage
• Glan-glan, l'oiseau craché
• Yé, maître de la famine
• Lacera de la richesse
• Ti-Jean l'horizon
• Nanie-Rosette et sa bouche douce.

• Acknowledgments - Introduction - Wit, Humor, and Satire in Dagara Tales - Songs as Mode of Communication within Tales - The Female Character in Tales - The Supernatural as a Motif in Tales - The Didactic and Moralizing in Dagara Tales - Dirges, Praise Songs, and Praise Singers - The Female Praise Singer - Verbal Art of the Dagara Xylophonist - Popular Songs as Verbal Art - The Art of Speech-Making - The Art of Proverb Usage - The Art of Riddling Riddles and Other Forms of Orature - Conclusion.
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Dagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa. It provides invaluable primary material for research, and does a close analysis of folktale narration, proverb usage, riddling, chanting of dirges and popular songs by male and female praise singers, and xylophone music performance as forms of verbal art. Folktales are characterized by wit, humor, and satire, and songs within tales are a mise-en-abyme, a story within a story that entertains but also enhances the narration through the participation of the audience in the performance. Moreover, Dagara tales are didactic and moralizing as a way of controlling the behavior of individuals in society. Riddling entertains but also helps to develop the cognitive abilities of children, and demands critical and logical thinking on the part of the participating audience. Proverbs were collected in context and analyzed closely for their meaning. The study also examines closely the art of speech-making, and concludes that a good locutor knows what figures of speech to use in order to enhance communication with the audience. This study concludes that an authentic theory of Dagara-and for that matter, generally African-folklore must be grounded on a thorough knowledge of the traditions, rites and rituals, and the socio-political structures that have held the society together in its historical experience. Dagara Verbal Art is an important resource for areas such as African studies, African literature and folklore, folklore in general, anthropology, culture studies, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, and gender studies, among others.
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• Volume 1 Classic readings on monster theory ; Introduction "A Marvel of Monsters" / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel ; Part I. Monster Theory ; Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics / J.R.R. Tolkien ; "A Measure of Man" excerpted from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought / John Block Friedman ; "The Nature of Horror" from The Philosophy of Horror / Noël Carroll ; Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters / Michael Camille ; Monster Culture (Seven Theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ; Part II. Allied Theories ; "Introduction" from Orientalism / Edward Said ; "Approaching Abjection" from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection / Julia Kristeva ; "Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity" from Skin Shows / J. Halberstam ; "From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity" from Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
• Volume 2 Primary sources on monsters ; Introduction: A Marvel of Monsters / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel ; The Epic of Gilgamesh / translated by Andrew George ; The Bible ; Theogony / Hesiod, translated by Debbie Felton ; The Odyssey, Odysseus and His Men Encounter the Cyclops / Homer, translated by Debbie Felton ; Bust of Polyphemus ; Natural History / Pliny the Elder, translated by Emily Albu ; Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Ovid, translated by Britta Spann ; City of God / St. Augustine of Hippo, translated by Gwendoline Knight ; Táin Bó Cúalinge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) / translated by Larissa Tracy ; The Wonders of the East / translated by Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim ; Donestre, Huntress, and Boar-Tusked Women ; Beowulf / translated by Roy Liuzza ; Modern Images of Grendel ; Bisclavret / Marie de France, translated by Glynn Burgess ; Völsunga Saga (Saga of the Volsungs) / translated by Larissa Tracy ; The Life of St. Christopher / translated by Susan M. Kim ; Illumination of St. Christopher ; The Alliterative Morte Arthure / translated by Renée Ward ; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Christina M. McCarter ; On Monsters / Ambroise Paré, translated by Anna Kłosowska ; Renaissance Figures of Monsters ; The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser ; The Tempest / William Shakespeare ; Images of Caliban ; A Discourse Concerning Prodigies: Whereinthe Vanity of Presages by them is Reprehended, and their True and Proper Ends are Indicated / John Spencer ; Paradise Lost / John Milton ; Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; Frankenstein Frontispiece ; William Wilson / Edgar Allen Poe ; Goblin Market / Christina Rosetti ; Illustration from Buy From Us With A Golden Curl ; Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll ; Illustration of Jabberwocky ; The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
• Dracula / Bram Stoker ; Ancient Sorceries / Algernon Blackwood ; The Call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft ; Sketch of Cthulhu ; Shambleau / C.L. Moore ; The Hobbit, or There and Back Again / J.R.R. Tolkien ; It! / Theodore Sturgeon ; Fever Dream / Ray Bradbury ; The Faceless Thing / Edward D. Hoch ; Grendel / John Gardner ; Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl / Joyce Carol Oates ; Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood ; Slender Man ; The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation.

The two brothers is one of the most widespread stories in the oral tradition of Mexico: almost anywhere in the country there is someone who knows how to tell it. It is a chained story, to which episodes are added and removed, or in which the adventures of the characters can be told in a different order. In Mexico, many versions begin with the death of the grandmother passing through water and fire.

How dangerous were fairies? In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from fallen angels, and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, the fairies feared by ordinary people caused them to flee their homes, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on in places well into the twentieth century. Often associated with witchcraft and black magic, fairies were also closely involved with reports of ghosts and poltergeists. In literature and art fairies often retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, to the improbably erotic poem `Goblin Market' or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. This book tells the story of the many fairy terrors which lay behind Titania or Tinkerbell.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface by Philip Payton
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Collectors
• Chapter 2 The Droll Tellers
• Chapter 3 Folkways and Stories
• Chapter 4 Piskies, Spriggans, and Bucca
• Chapter 5 Piskies and Migratory Legends
• Chapter 6 Seeking the Companionship of People
• Chapter 7 Mermaids
• Chapter 8 The Spectral Bridegroom
• Chapter 9 Giants
• Chapter 10 Knockers in the Mines
• Chapter 11 Tommyknockers, Immigration, and the Modern World
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Type Index for Cornish Narrative
• Bibliography.
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By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore studies internationally have long considered Celtic material, but scholars have tended to overlook Cornwall's collections. The Folklore of Cornwall fills this gap, placing neglected stories on a par with those from other regions where Celtic languages have deep roots. The Folklore of Cornwall demonstrates that Cornwall has a distinct body of oral tradition, even when examining legends and folktales that also appear elsewhere. The way in which Cornish droll tellers achieved this unique pattern is remarkable; with the publication of this book, it becomes possible for folklorists to look to the peninsula beyond the River Tamar for insight. A very readable text with popular appeal, this book serves as an introduction to folklore studies for the novice while also offering an alternative means to consider Cornish studies for advanced scholars. The comparative analysis combined with an innovative method of The Folklore of Cornwall is not to be found in other treatments of the subject.
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• 1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era2. Criticism of African Art and Literature3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer5. Conclusion.
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This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations' socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.
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German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance), folklore became a tool for constructing a unified German realm and a manufactured lineage from ancient and ""pure"" Germanic and Nordic blood. Drawing on extensive research in public and private archives and interviews with family members of fieldworkers, James R. Dow uncovers both details of the SS cultural commissions' work and the continuing vestiges of the materials they assembled. Teams of poorly qualified and ideologically motivated collectors were sent to South Tyrol in Italy and Gottschee in Slovenian Yugoslavia, from which ethnically German communities were to be resettled in the German Reich. Although a mass of information on narratives, songs and dances, beliefs, customs, local clothing and architecture, and folk speech was collected, the research was deeply tainted and skewed by racialist and nationalist preconditions. Dow sharply critiques the continued use of these ersatz archives.
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For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence or, in many cases, absence in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics. From Ecclesiastes to the New Testament Apocrypha, Durer to Henri Rousseau, Aesop and La Fontaine to Rilke and Thomas Mann, the extraordinary breadth of Blumenberg's knowledge and intellectual curiosity is on full display. Lions has much to offer readers, both those already familiar with Blumenberg's oeuvre and newcomers looking for an introduction to the thought of one of Germany's most important postwar philosophers.
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• Mythologies anciennes
• La louve romaine
• Le saint plus fort que la bête
• Le loup des bestiaires
• Ysengrin : un loup pour rire ?
• Garous et sorciers
• Le nom et l'emblème
• Les fables et les contes
• Un fauve dans les campagnes
• La Bête du Gévaudan
• Croyances et superstitions modernes
• Le loup aujourd'hui.

"Dans l'imaginaire européen, quelques animaux jouent un rôle plus important que les autres et forment une sorte de "bestiaire central". Le loup en fait partie et en est même une des vedettes. Il occupe déjà cette place dans les mythologies antiques, à l'exemple de la louve romaine, qui a nourri Romulus et Rémus, du loup Fenrir, destructeur du panthéon nordique, et des nombreuses histoires de dévorations, de métamorphoses et de loups-garous. Ces derniers sont encore bien présents au Moyen Âge, même si la crainte du loup est alors en recul. Les bestiaires dressent du fauve un portrait négatif et le Roman de Renart en fait une bête ridicule, bernée par les autres animaux et sans cesse poursuivie par les chasseurs et les paysans. La peur du loup revient à l'époque moderne. Les documents d'archives, les chroniques, le folklore en portent témoignage : désormais les loups ne s'attaquent plus seulement au bétail, ils dévorent les femmes et les enfants. L'étrange affaire de la Bête du Gévaudan (1765-1767) constitue le paroxysme de cette peur qui dans les campagnes ne disparaît que lentement. Au XXe siècle, la littérature, les dessins animés, les livres pour enfants finissent par transformer le grand méchant loup en un animal qui ne fait plus peur et devient même attachant. Seuls la toponymie, les proverbes et quelques légendes conservent le souvenir du fauve vorace et cruel, si longtemps redouté."--Page 4 of cover.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Coining the Coin Tree.-
• Chapter 2. Roots of a Ritual.-
• Chapter 3. The Democratization of the Landscape.-
• Chapter 4. Contemporary Engagement.-
• Chapter 5. The Mutability of Meaning.-
• Chapter 6. Manipulating Meaning.-
• Chapter 7. Green Monuments and their Heritage.-
• Chapter 8. Concluding Thoughts.- Index.
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This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced for folk-medical and dedicatory purposes. Today, the custom is widespread, with over 200 coin-trees distributed across the British Isles, but is more akin to the casual deposition of coins in a wishing-well: coins are deposited in the tree in exchange for wishes, good luck, or future fortune. Ceri Houlbrook contributes to the debate on the historic relationships between religion, ritual, and popular magic in British contexts from 1700 to the present.
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Monsters arrived in 2011aand now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our pastaa hideous obsession America cannot seem to escape. Poole's central argument in Monsters in America is that monster tales intertwine with America's troubled history of racism, politics, class struggle, and gender inequality. The second edition of Monsters leads readers deeper into America's tangled past to show how monsters continue to haunt contemporary American ideology. By adding new discussions of the American West, Poole focuses intently on the Native American experience. He reveals how monster stories went west to Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, bringing the preoccupation with monsters into the twentieth century through the American Indian Movement. In his new preface and expanded conclusion, Poole's tale connects to the presentaillustrating the relationship between current social movements and their historical antecedents. This proven textbook also studies the social location of contemporary horror films, exploring, for example, how Get Out emerged from the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, in the new section "American Carnage, " Poole challenges readers to assess what their own monster tales might be and how our sordid past horrors express themselves in our present cultural anxieties. By the end of the book, Poole cautions that America's monsters aren't going away anytime soon. If specters of the past still haunt our present, they may yet invade our future. Monsters are here to stay.
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• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Fables
• Ndava Linyaunyau liyenda nyatanyata wichu : Why Spider moves very fast
• Ndava Kapecha ayii ni nkela uyipi : Why Hare has a short tail
• Ndava Kapecha ni Lwiha hiyii hee ni ukocha : Why Hare and Chameleon are not friends
• Ndava Kapecha ni Liyani hikalekana ukochi wavi : Why Hare and Monkey broke off their friendship
• Ndava Liyani livenga Kapecha : Why Monkey chases Hare
• Cha Kapecha kanketikihi Litombele : How Hare tricked Monkey
• Cha Lihogho linketikihi Kapecha : How Hyena tricked Hare
• Cha Lihogho lihovitayi makakala ghaki : How Hyena lost his power
• Folktales
• Muhana nkata ni ndomi waki nkata : The lazy wife and her lazy husband
• Ndomi yaa ahokiti muhana : The husband who wronged his wife
• Cha nchokolo atowili : How grandchild got married
• Muhavi ni lingʼwina : The witch and the crocodile.

Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which ""authentic folklore"" is identified, talked about, represented, reconstructed, reenacted, and revived. In Slovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe after World War II, Communist governments promoted folklore revivals and staged performances of song and dance as representations of ""the people."" When the Communists fell from power in Slovakia in 1989, folklore was also discredited in the eyes of many. By the early twenty-first century, however, a new generation launched a movement to revive folklore's reputation and reintroduce it to a broad public. Weaving together personal narrative, ethnographic analysis, and philosophical reflection, Feinberg examines the aspirations and difficulties of young folk dance devotees as they recognize that authenticity is more easily prized than achieved. He sheds new light on the problems of specialized performance and broad participation, the uneasy relationship between folklore and the public sphere, and the paradoxical pursuit of authenticity in the modern world.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Motikitiki the Trickster and the creation of Anuta
• 3. Peopling the island
• 4. Early invasions are repulsed
• 5. Pu Raatu goes to war in Tonga
• 6. The chiefly Brethren's first battle
• 7. Extermination of Anuta's population and the origin of the four 'Clans'
• 8. War with Tikopia
• 9. Beginnings of the house of Pangatau
• 10. Adventures of Pu Rotomua
• 11. Love and war: Relations with Rotuma
• 12. Creation of a second chief and an invasion from Tuvalu
• 13. The warrior friends: Pu Nevaneva and Pu Tokerau
• 14. Contacts of the early European period
• 15. The dawn of a new era.

Anuta, a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands, has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the start of the 21st century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Polynesian Oral Traditions, Richard Feinberg offers a window into this fascinating and relatively unfamiliar culture through a collection of Anutan historical narratives, including indigenous texts and English translations. This rich, thorough assemblage is the result of a 25-year collaboration between Feinberg and a large cross section of the Anutan community. The volume's emphasis is ethnographic, consisting of a number of texts as related by the island's most respected experts in matters of traditional history. The texts themselves have important implications for the relationship of oral tradition to history and symbolic structures, affording new evidence pertinent to Polynesian language subgrouping. Further, they provide insight into a number of Anutan customs and preoccupations, while also suggesting certain widespread Polynesian practices dating back to the precontact and early contact periods. Feinberg's annotations, an essential aspect of this volume, arm the reader with essential ethnographic and historical contexts, clarifying important linguistic and cultural issues that arise from the stories.
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The Butterfly Lovers Story, sometimes called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet, has been enduringly popular in China and Korea. In Transforming Gender and Emotion, Sookja Cho demonstrates why the Butterfly Lovers Story is more than just a popular love story. By unveiling the complexity of themes and messages concealed beneath the tale's modern classification as a tragic love story, this book reveals the tale as a rich academic subject for students of human emotions and relationships, comparative geography and culture, and narrative adaptation. By examining folk beliefs and ideas that abound in the narrative-including rebirth and a second life, the association of human souls and butterflies, and women's spiritual power-this book presents the Butterfly Lovers Story as an example of local religious narrative. The book's cross-cultural comparisons, best manifested in its discussion of a shamanic ritual narrative version from the Cheju Island of Korea, frame the story as a catalyst for inclusive, expansive discussion of premodern Korean and Chinese literatures and cultures. This scrutiny of the historical and cultural background behind the formation and popularization of the Cheju Island version sheds light on important issues in the Butterfly Lovers Story that are not frequently discussed-either in past examinations of this particular narrative or in the overall literary studies of China and Korea. This new, open approach presents an innovative framework for understanding premodern literary and cultural space in East Asia.
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• Danksagung
• Einleitung
• Die Ältesten Trolle : Spuren in der Nordgermanischen Mythologie
• Die ältesten Erwähnungen von Trollen
• Trolle in der mittelalterlichen Mythographie des Nordens
• Riesen und Trolle im Mittelalter
• Die Bösen Trolle : Trolle in den Isländischen Sagas des Mittelalters
• Tödliche Trolle
• Trolle und ihr Spieltrieb
• Trollfrauen als Ziehmütter
• Die hilfreichen Töchter der Trolle
• Aussehen und Wohnorte der Trolle
• Die Namen der Trolle
• "Was ist ein Troll, wenn nicht das?"
• Ein Sagatroll im höfischen Kontext
• Trolle und Monster im Mittelalter
• Zauberei und Trolldomr in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
• Die Wiedergeburt der Trolle : Märchen und Sagen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
• Trolle in der Neuzeit
• Trolle und "Unterirdische"
• Trolle in Märchen und Sagen
• Huldrefolk und Huldra
• Trollwesen und Christentum
• Die Einsamen Trolle in Norwegen und Island
• Trolle werden norwegisches Kulturgut : Asbjornsen und Moe
• Figuren und Typen der norwegischen Volkserzählungen
• Nachttrolle in Island, auf den Färöern und in Schottland : Verwandte der norwegischen Trolle
• Die Märchentrolle in Dänemark und Schweden
• Die Illustratoren der Trollmärchen
• Die Kinderbuchtrolle in Skandinavien und Deutschland
• Die Anfänge der Kinderbuchtrolle in Schweden
• Kinderbuchtrolle und kein Ende
• Kindische Trolle überall : die norwegischen Kommerztrolle
• Trolle in der Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
• Folkloristische Traditionen in der skandinavischen Literatur
• Die einflussreichsten Trolle des 20. Jahrhunderts
• Tolkien'sche Trolle und kein Ende : High Fantasy
• Finnisch-samische Traditionen
• Die Bösen Trolle Sind Zurück : Filmisches Trollleben am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
• Trolle in der Natur
• Die Ganz Bösen Trolle der Gegenwart : Internet- und Patenttrolle
• Anmerkungen
• Glossar
• Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Quellen und Literatur
• Mittelalterliche Quellen
• Quellen des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts, einschliesslich Kinderbücher und Märchensammlungen
• Sekundärliteratur
• Register der Personen und Anonymen Werke.

An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
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