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The Friendly Guide to Mythology: A Mortal's Companion to the Fantastical Realm of Gods Goddesses Monsters Heroes

by Nancy Hathaway

How was the world as we know it created? What does it mean to be a hero? Where do we go when we die? Why are flood myths so ubiquitous? Anyone who has pondered these and other questions about humanity's ancient...


Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies

by Robert Lake-Thom

There are ancient secrets and lessons hidden in nature. If you seek for guidance, you will discover truth. —Bobby Lake-ThomMuch of the ancient knowledge that has been passed down from Native American medicine...


Breaking the Magic Spell

by Jack Zipes

This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays,...


African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers

by Mamokgethi Setati

This comprehensive text on African Mathematics addresses some of the problematic issues in the field, such as attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other...


Fried Chicken

by John T. Edge

What could be a more fun and delicious way to celebrate American culture than through the lore of our favorite foods? That's what John T. Edge does in his smart, witty, and compulsively readable new series on...


Blue Ridge Folklife

by Ted Olson

In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian...


National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

by Gérard Bouchard

National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities....


The Robin Hood Handbook: The Outlaw in History, Myth and Legend

by Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there...


Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

by David Kunzie

From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzie's rich and revealing history of...


Folklore of Yorkshire

by Kai Roberts

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in Britain, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of shared tradition, a characteristic body of folklore has thrived...


Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

by Judith Lynne Hanna

Dancing for Health explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. Designed for anyone interested in health and healing, this book offers lessons...


Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

by Jack V. Haney

This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary...


The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History

by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask & Jonathan Z. Smith

This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing...


Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

by Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider & Jeannie Banks Thomas

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations...


The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend

by Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan

This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we...


African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies

by Afe Adogame & Ezra Chitando

This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate...


Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances

by Christine L. Garlough

Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC),...


German Festivals and Traditions

by Nicolette Hannam

This invaluable, time-saving resource provides intercultural ideas for every month of the year. For each festival and tradition you will find background information, key vocabulary, detailed lists of possible...


Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind

by John Miles Foley

The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite...


Foxfire 9

by Inc. Foxfire Fund & Eliot Wigginton

Foxfire highlights the  twentieth year of the Foxfire high school program with a  new volume as fascinating as its predecessors.  Included are general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a  praying rock, a...