Blackfoot Lodge Tales, the Story of a Prairie People by George Grinnell

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth (Theorists of Myth)

This publication surveys the historical past of psychoanalytic remedies of myths variously as indicators of psychopathology, as cultural safety mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of rules which can comprise healing insights.

The Classic Tales: 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore

300 Jewish stories during this striking quantity span 3 continents and 4 millennia. Culled from conventional sources—the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore—and retold in sleek English through Ellen Frankel, those tales symbolize the brightest jewels within the enormous treasure chest of Jewish lore.

Maithil Women's Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border

Restricted by way of traditions proscribing their events and speech, the Maithil girls of Nepal and India have lengthy explored person and collective existence studies by means of sharing tales with each other. occasionally fantastical, occasionally together with one of those magical realism, those stories permit girls to construct neighborhood via a deeply own and consistently evolving storytelling shape.

Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing: And the Blind Shall Sing (Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe)

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folks culture is a little-known social order, yet an immense one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, those minstrels have been prepared into specialist guilds that set criteria for education and function. Repressed throughout the Stalin period, this is often their story.