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Book Myth and Ritual in Dance  Game  and Rhyme  by Lewis Spence

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Dance Game and Rhyme by Lewis Spence written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Ritual in Dance  Game  and Rhyme

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Dance Game and Rhyme written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Ritual in Dance  Game  and Rhyme

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Dance Game and Rhyme written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Ritual in Dance  Game  and Rhyme   With Plates

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Dance Game and Rhyme With Plates written by James Lewis Thomas Chalmers SPENCE and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Ritual in Dance  Gaine and Rhyme

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Dance Gaine and Rhyme written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Polpop

    Book Details:
  • Author : James E. Combs
  • Publisher : Popular Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780879722760
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Polpop written by James E. Combs and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses various components of popular culture and the effects they have on politics. Some of the areas of mass culture which are discussed are: popular dramas, folk heritage, the Western myth, sports, religion, media, propaganda, and show business.

Book The Dancing Goddesses  Folklore  Archaeology  and the Origins of European Dance

Download or read book The Dancing Goddesses Folklore Archaeology and the Origins of European Dance written by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance. From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth Wayland Barber follows the trail of these spirit maidens—long associated with fertility, marriage customs, and domestic pursuits—from their early appearance in traditional folktales and harvest rituals to their more recent incarnations in fairytales and present-day dance. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and line drawings, the result is a brilliantly original work that stands at the intersection of archaeology and folk traditions—at once a rich portrait of our rich agrarian ancestry and an enchanting reminder of the human need to dance.

Book The Walled Up Wife  A Casebook

Download or read book The Walled Up Wife A Casebook written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Narrative

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  • Author : Alan Dundes
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1984-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780520051928
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Sacred Narrative written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-11-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classic statements on the theory of myth by the authors. The twenty-two essays by leading experts on myth represent comparative, functionalist, myth-ritual, Jungian, Freudian, and structuralist approaches to studying the genre.

Book The Fortune Telling Book

Download or read book The Fortune Telling Book written by Raymond Buckland and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at Fortune Telling and Divination from the author of Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft Best-selling Wiccan seer and gypsy mystic Raymond Buckland focused his attention on the intuitive art of prognostication in this tome. A master of his art, the late Buckland designed fortune-telling decks, read cards, and did other types of fortune telling for over fifty years. A comprehensive A-to-Z exploration of all that peers into tomorrow, The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying divines the meanings of 400 key topics relating to this oft-misunderstood, oft-consulted-upon science. Written in clear, concise language, it discusses everything from aeromancy (seeing by observing atmospheric phenomena) to zoomancy (divination by the appearance or behavior of animals) and the 398 others in between. This fascinating encyclopedia is illustrated with 100 pictures and includes a detailed index and additional reading recommendations. Packed with colorful histories, people, and significant events, The Fortune-Telling Book shows readers how to foretell their own fates. It’s sure to please fortune-telling enthusiasts, whatever their powers.

Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Play  Drama   Thought

Download or read book Play Drama Thought written by Richard Courtney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference work is essential reading for drama educators, therapists, and others in the helping professions. Part I considers drama from the perspective of the philosophers, from those of ancient Greece to modern times. Part II examines drama and play as seen by various schools of psychology, beginning with the depth psychology of Freud, Jung and Adler, and going on to discuss more recent schools, such as the drama therapy of Jacob Moreno. In Part III, the authors considers drama from a broader sociological and anthropological perspective, giving us a glimpse of its importance in cultures distant from each other in time and space. Part IV ties together the earlier chapters, and we see how drama relates to intuition, symbolism, and the fundamental structures of human thought.

Book K   Kanaka   Stand Tall

    Book Details:
  • Author : George S. Kanahele
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 0824841239
  • Pages : 553 pages

Download or read book K Kanaka Stand Tall written by George S. Kanahele and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding thinkers of the Western world are pulled into his creation, adding luster, interest, and academic panache to this highly readable book.

Book Theories of Myth  Ritual and myth

Download or read book Theories of Myth Ritual and myth written by Robert Alan Segal and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunting the Wren

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  • Author : Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780870499609
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Hunting the Wren written by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique interdisciplinary study, this book examines the British and European tradition of the wren hunt, in which a bird ordinarily revered and protected for most of the year was killed around the time of the annual solstice. In focusing on this ancient ritual, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence draws on her training in cultural anthropology and biology to cast a fresh light on the complexities of human-animal relationships.Following an introductory chapter on animal symbolism, Lawrence proceeds in subsequent chapters to describe the wren both as a biological entity and as the subject of numerous tales and legends, to delineate the details of the wren hunt ceremony and the various meanings ascribed to it, and, finally, to relate the ceremony to important contemporary issues in human-animal interactions and current attitudes toward the living environment. Whereas most other studies tend to concentrate solely on human perceptions of animals and fail to include the animal's role in the relationship, Lawrence's approach shows how the participation of both animal and human determines the symbolic status of the animal -- which in turn influences the treatment of that animal within a particular society.At a time when human destructiveness toward nature has reached tragic proportions, Lawrence contends, it is critical that we understand the processes by which certain cultural beliefs, in combination with observations about the natural history of a particular animal, result in emotional and mental responses that may ultimately determine the fate of that species. The author argues persuasively that the wren hunt -- with its ancient roots, associated beliefs, and complex meanings in thepreindustrialized world -- still has much to teach us.

Book An Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Occultism written by Lewis Spence and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism" was one of a kind when it was first published in 1920 and is still considered the best in its field today. Spence organizes a world's worth of magic -- from "Ab" (a magical month in the ancient Semitic calendar) to "Zulu witch-finders" -- into 2,500 dictionary-style entries that explore concepts and personalities both familiar (Freemasonry, Morgan le Fay) and obscure: palingenesy (a process by which plants or vegetables are destroyed and then "resurrected"), Leonora Galigai (a 17th-century Italian aristocrat who was burned as a witch). A delight for devotees of the weird and the strange, and a valuable resource for students of mythology and the evolution of scientific thought, this important volume is at home in the libraries of all book lovers. Scottish journalist and folklorist LEWIS SPENCE (1874 -1955) was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He published more than 40 works on mythology and the occult, including History of Atlantis, An Introduction to Mythology, and Myth and Ritual in Dance, Game and Rhyme.

Book The Listener

Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: