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Book Folklore by the Fireside

Download or read book Folklore by the Fireside written by Alessandro Falassi and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom—from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern. Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood, courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore. This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology and theoretical richness.

Book Fireside Stories

Download or read book Fireside Stories written by Caitlin Matthews and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time their brother turned a cartwheel, golden oranges fell from his pockets, along with sugar sweets in gold and silver paper. Schnitzle, Schnotzle & Schnootzle

Book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales

Download or read book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales written by Jeffrey R. Frazier and published by Egg Hill Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 in the Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series exploring the origins and foundations of old-time Pennsylvania mountain folk tales, legends and folklore collected from the old folks over the last 45 years.

Book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume 6

Download or read book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume 6 written by Jeffrey/Robert Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

Download or read book Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore written by Gža Rh̤eim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Rcheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of readers to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends. From Australian aboriginal mythology to Native American trickster tales, from the Grimm folktale canon to Hungarian folk belief, Rcheim explores a wide range of issues, such as the relationship of dreams to folklore and the primacy of infantile conditioning in the formation of adult fantasy. An introduction by folklorist Alan Dundes describes Rcheim's career, and each essay is prefaced by a brief consideration of its intellectual and bibliographical context.

Book Fireside Tales

Download or read book Fireside Tales written by James E. Kibler and published by . This book was released on 1984-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fireside Tales from Pembrokeshire

Download or read book Fireside Tales from Pembrokeshire written by Brian John and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume VIII  Origins and Foundations of Pennsylvania Mountain Folktales  Legends  and Folklore

Download or read book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume VIII Origins and Foundations of Pennsylvania Mountain Folktales Legends and Folklore written by Jeffrey Robert Frazier and published by Pennsylvania Fireside Tales. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighth volume in the author's Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series.

Book Beside the Fire

Download or read book Beside the Fire written by Douglas Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fireside Stories

Download or read book Fireside Stories written by Veronica Somerville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories for children.

Book A Fire in My Heart

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  • Author : Mohammed M. A. Ahmed
  • Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
  • Release : 2007-12-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book A Fire in My Heart written by Mohammed M. A. Ahmed and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich offering of traditional Kurdish tales, many never before offered in English, plus background information on the people, their culture, and history.

Book Fireside

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  • Author : Ogali A. Ogali
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Fireside written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fireside stories for winter evenings

Download or read book Fireside stories for winter evenings written by Fireside stories and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Fireside Tales

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  • Author : Leslie Conron Carola
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781582882628
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Irish Fireside Tales written by Leslie Conron Carola and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish are tellers of great tales, or one could say, they are great tellers of tales. Either way, we are the beneficiaries of an extraordinary oral tradition of stories, wrapped in myth and magic, preserving an ancient narrative. Tales told by a fire - whether ancient tales of the Celtic gods, kings, and heroes told round an open campfire with a gathering of warriors or elders, or tales of the simple country folk told round a rural kitchen fireplace with a gathering of neighbors on a winter's eve - are vibrant expressions of cultural tradidion and lore.

Book By the Fire

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  • Author : Emilie Demant Hatt
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 1452959579
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book By the Fire written by Emilie Demant Hatt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Sápmi, 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 Sápmi 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.

Book By the Fire

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781517904586
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book By the Fire written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...A guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them. As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends?such as bullying, learning disabilities, racism, or homophobia?characters in books can help them feel less alone. And just as important, reading books that feature a diverse range of real-life topics helps generate openness, empathy, and compassion in all kids. Better with Books is a valuable resource for parents, teachers, librarians, therapists, and all caregivers who recognize the power of literature to improve young readers? lives. Each chapter explores a particular issue affecting preteens and teens today and includes a list of recommended related books?all published within the last decade. Recommendations are grouped by age: those appropriate for middle-grade readers and those for teens. Reading lists are organized around:Adoption and foster careBody imageImmigrationLearning challengesLGBTQIA+ youthMental healthNature and environmentalismPhysical disabilityPoverty and homelessnessRace and ethnicityReligion and spirituality."Amazon.com.

Book Fireside Stories

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  • Author : Caitlín Matthews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781782855729
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Fireside Stories written by Caitlín Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: