Автор: Anne Millard
Название: Illustrated Guide to Greek Myths and Legends
ISBN: 0746087195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780746087190
Издательство: Usborne
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Описание: Provides an introduction to the famous gods and goddesses in Greek mythology and their exploits. This book helps the reader to understand the stories of the Greek gods and the way in which they were worshipped.

Автор: Cann Candi K.
Название: Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 0813168325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813168326
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning.

Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death.

Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed.

Автор: Montell William Lynwood
Название: Tales from Kentucky Nurses
ISBN: 0813168252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813168258
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Описание: The episodes related in Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveal the significance of the nursing profession to the Bluegrass state`s local life and culture.

Автор: Koskimies August V., Itkonen Toivo I.
Название: Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar
ISBN: 0299319008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299319007
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi 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 Sámi 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 Sámi 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.

Автор: Eden, Jeff,
Название: Warrior saints of the Silk Road :
ISBN: 900438426X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004384262
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Guest Lady Charlotte
Название: The Mabinogion: The Red Book of Hergest; The Myths, Legends and Folk Stories of Wales (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0359747159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780359747153
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Описание: The Mabinogion consists of the earliest prose literature in Great Britain, the manuscripts of which originate in 12th century Welsh, with some dating earlier, to the oral tradition of the Middle Ages. Many of the stories in the Mabinogion would become famous anew thanks to the efforts of the translator. Rendered in modern English, the narratives of an era long departed reflect the time - events such as war, the idea of chivalric romance, and the prevalence of sorcery and mystical goings on are common devices in the stories.

Much of what is here was passed onto other, later authors - the notion of the Medieval era as one laden with strange beasts, magic, and valiant combat originates with tales like those in the Mabinogion. This edition of the ancient stories was translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, an English aristocrat who was most famous for this work. Accomplished with languages from a young age, she gathered from obscure archives the manuscripts, arranged and presented them in modern English.

Автор: Montell William Lynwood
Название: Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers
ISBN: 081316821X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813168210
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Описание: In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky`s social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fun and fascinating collection of schoolroom stories that chronicle a golden era in Kentucky.

Автор: Temperley Alice
Название: Alice Temperley: English Myths and Legends
ISBN: 0847848817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847848812
Издательство: Rizzoli
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Описание: The second monograph on British fashion designer Alice Temperley, highlighting the last decade of designs and inspiration behind her eponymous label, Temperley London.

Автор: Mieder, Wolfgang
Название: Proverbs
ISBN: 1433120240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433120244
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Comprises a survey of the multifaceted nature of proverbs as colorful expressions of folk wisdom. This book deals with the definition and classification of proverbs, including such matters as proverb markers and meanings, origin and dissemination, traditional forms related to proverbs, and types of proverb collections.

Автор: Noyes Dorothy
Название: Humble Theory: Folklore`s Grasp on Social Life
ISBN: 0253022916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253022912
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of the people whose practices they study. They attend to local economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world.

Автор: Noyes Dorothy
Название: Humble Theory: Folklore`s Grasp on Social Life
ISBN: 0253023149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253023148
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of the people whose practices they study. They attend to local economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world.

Автор: Haring Lee
Название: Grand Theory in Folkloristics
ISBN: 0253024390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253024398
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902 1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical level. Through a forum sponsored by the American Folklore Society, the diverse answers to the question of such a theory arrived at substantial agreement: American folklorists have produced little "grand theory." One speaker even found all the theory folklorists need in the history of philosophy. The two women in the forum (Noyes and Mills) spoke in defense of theory that is local, "apt," suited to the audience, and "humble"; the men (Bauman and Fine) reached for something Parsons might have recognized. The essays in this collection, developed from the forum presentations, defend diverse positions, but they largely accept the longstanding concentration in American folkloristics on the quotidian and local."