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Storytracking
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 59.99This work takes the narrative technique of "storytracking", as practised by Australian aboriginal peoples, and applies it to the academic study of their culture. The author proposes to get as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of the peoples by expunging European interpretation. more...
Storytelling in a Liminal Time
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00This e-book discusses the increased emphasis on storytelling in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. In the post-industrial world, storytelling is again assuming the central role it had in pre-industrial times imposing structure on the chaos of experience. more...
Ghosts & Monsters
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 11.95Did you know that the terryfing tale of Dracula was inspired by a man who drank his enemies' blood? Or that huge, scary monsters have been spotted on lonely mountain tops? Journey into the weird world of bloodsucking vampires, freaky phantoms, and mysterious monsters. Colorful photographs, astounding statistics, and challenging quizzes highlight... more...
The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 16.99This remarkable book brings together more than 150 authentic Buddhist teaching tales from the Hidden Kingdom of Tibet ? most never before translated into English. These captivating stories, legends and yarns ? passed orally from teacher to student ? capture the vibrant wisdom of an ancient and still-living oral tradition. Magical, whimsical, witty... more...
African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 44.95Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. Na'Allah argues... more...
Traditional Medicine
Pharmaceutical Press 2009; US$ 57.00The World Health Organization has acknowledged that the majority of people living in developing countries continue to use traditional medicine. Increased levels of immigration and migration also mean that health professionals are more likely to come into contact with patients using them. Traditional Medicine is therefore a vital and timely book which... more...
Sacred Wells
Algora Publishing 2009; US$ 31.95Sacred Wells is an in depth study of springs, wells and waters that have been venerated from California to Cornwall, Russia to Australia. Tales of faeries, black hounds, hauntings and miraculous cures are explored. Many of these sites are still locations for religious festivals and ritual, unchanging for hundreds of years.The book is illustrated with... more...
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
BRILL 2007; US$ 130.00Intends to construct a basis for the understanding of the rites and practices associated with exorcism, or jinn eviction as it is performed within the maraboutic institution called zawiya. more...
Latino American Folktales
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 70.00Assembles a wide range of Latino American folktales, each introduced by an explanatory headnote. more...
Children's Folklore
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 55.00Offers students and general readers an introduction to children's folklore. more...









