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Book THE HORSE AND THE TURTLE   a Jamaican Anansi Story

Download or read book THE HORSE AND THE TURTLE a Jamaican Anansi Story written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Issue 61 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Jamaican Anansi story of the bet between the Turtle and the Horse ? in effect the Jamaican Anansi version of the hare and the tortoise. Written in pidgin English, this story must be spoken with a Jamaican accent. The story is accompanied by sheet music for a calypso-style ditty about the tale. It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia and Polynesia, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture. This book also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".ÿ

Book THE HORSE AND THE TURTLE   A Jamaican Anansi Story

Download or read book THE HORSE AND THE TURTLE A Jamaican Anansi Story written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 61 ÿ In Issue 61 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Jamaican Anansi tale of The Horse and the Turtle ? in effect the Jamaican version of the Hare and the Tortoise. In typical Jamaican style this version comes with a song and sheet music. Oh ? and remember to tell the story with a Jamaican accent! ÿ Each issue also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE DOWNLOADS ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture. ÿ

Book Jamaica Anansi Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
  • Publisher : Corinthian Press
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book JAMAICAN ANANSI TALES AND STORIES

Download or read book JAMAICAN ANANSI TALES AND STORIES written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES in this collection were recorded from the lips of over sixty negro story-tellers in the remote country districts of Jamaica during two visits to the island in the summer of 1919 and the winter of 1921. The role of Anansi, the trickster spider, is akin to the Native American Coyote and the (Southern African) Bantu Hare. Herein you will find 149 Anansi tales and a further 18 Witticisms. The stories are categorised into Animal Stories, Old Stories (chiefly of sorcery), Dance and Song and Witticisms. You will find stories as varied in title and content as “The Fish-Basket”, “The Storm“, “The King's Two Daughters”, “The Gub-Gub Peas”, “Simon Tootoos”, “The Tree-Wife” and many, many more unique tales. In some instances, Martha Warren Beckwith was able to record musical notation to accompany the stories. As such you will find these scattered throughout the book. In this way the original style of the story-telling, which in some instances mingles story, song and dance, is as nearly as possible preserved. Two influences have dominated story-telling in Jamaica, the first an absorbing interest in the magical effect of song which far surpasses that in the action of the story; the second, the conception of the spider Anansi as the trickster hero among a group of animal figures. "Anansi stories" regularly form the entertainment during wake-nights, and it is difficult not to believe that the vividness with which these animal actors take part in the story springs from the idea that they really represent the dead in the underworld whose spirits have the power, according to the native belief, of taking animal form. In the local culture, magic songs are often used in communicating with the dead, and the obeah-man who sets a ghost upon an enemy often sends it in the form of some animal; hence there are animals which must be carefully handled lest they be something other than they appear. The importance of animal stories is further illustrated by the fact that animal stories form the greater part of this volume. 33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Sentebale, a charity supporting children orphaned by AIDS in Lesotho.

Book Turtle Bogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry G. Lefever
  • Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780945636236
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Turtle Bogue written by Harry G. Lefever and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an oral history and ethnography of the Afro-Caribbean individuals and families who settled in Tortuguero, a small village in northeastern Costa Rica. The author uses the concept of creole cultures and societies to analyze and interpret the descriptive, ethnographic data in the book. lllustrated.

Book Jamaica Anansi Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
  • Publisher : Corinthian Press
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Caribbean Story Finder

Download or read book The Caribbean Story Finder written by Sharon Barcan Elswit and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme—in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales—some in danger of disappearing—retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.

Book Memoirs of the American Folk lore Society

Download or read book Memoirs of the American Folk lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamaica Anansi Stories

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  • Author : Martha Beckwith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-05
  • ISBN : 9781697703566
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1924, Jamaica Anansi Stories includes folklore (including animal stories, modern stories and old stories), transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles, all cross-referenced with folklore studies from other cultures. The trickster Anansi, originally a West African spider-god, lives on in these tales. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion; he is able to overturn the social order; he can marry the Kings' daughter, create wealth out of thin air; baffle the Devil and cheat Death. Even if Anansi loses in one story, you know that he will overcome in the next.

Book A Pepper pot of Cultures

Download or read book A Pepper pot of Cultures written by Gordon Collier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the processes of globalization initiated by the colonial migrations of past centuries. The present volume is intended to illustrate these various stages either by historical and/or theoretical discussion of the concept or through selected case studies. The authors are established scholars from the areas of literature, linguistics and cultural studies; they all share a lively and committed interest in the Caribbean area - certainly not the only or even oldest realm in which processes of creolization have shaped human societies, but one that offers, by virtue of its history of colonialization and cross-cultural contact, its most pertinent example. The collection, beyond its theoretical interest, thus also constitutes an important survey of Caribbean studies in Europe and the Americas. As well as searching overview essays, there are - sociolinguistic contributions on the linguistic geography of 'criollo' in Spanish America, the Limonese creole speakers of Costa Rica, 'creole' language and identity in the Netherlands Antilles and the affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese in Curaçao - ethnohistorical examinations of such topics as creole transgression in the Dominican/Haitian borderland, the Haitian Mandingo and African fundamentalism, creolization and identity in West-Central Jamaica, Afro-Nicaraguans and national identity, and the Creole heritage of Haiti - studies of religion and folk culture, including voodoo and creolization in New York City, the creolization of the "Mami Wata" water spirit, and signifyin(g) processes in New World Anancy tales - a group of essays focusing on the thought of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, and the Créolité writers and case-studies of artistic expression, including creole identities in Caribbean women's writing, Port-au-Prince in the Haitian novel, Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer and Surinamese fiction, Afro-Cuban artistic expression, and metacreolization in the fiction of Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson.

Book Jamaica Anansi Stories

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  • Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-04-09
  • ISBN : 9781530927708
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1924, Jamaica Anansi Stories includes folklore (including animal stories, modern stories and old stories), transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles, all cross-referenced with folklore studies from other cultures. The trickster Anansi, originally a West African spider-god, lives on in these tales. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion; he is able to overturn the social order; he can marry the Kings' daughter, create wealth out of thin air; baffle the Devil and cheat Death. Even if Anansi loses in one story, you know that he will overcome in the next.

Book Jamaica Anansi Stories

Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book JAMAICA ANANSI STORIES

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  • Author : MARTHA WARREN. BECKWITH
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033011102
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book JAMAICA ANANSI STORIES written by MARTHA WARREN. BECKWITH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anansi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
  • Publisher : Vamzzz Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 9789492355171
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Anansi written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by Vamzzz Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.

Book Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner

Download or read book Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner written by and published by august house. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Anansi the spider tricks Turtle in order to keep his dinner for himself, Turtle turns the tables on Anansi.

Book Possible Survivals of African Song in Jamaica

Download or read book Possible Survivals of African Song in Jamaica written by Helen Heffron Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Musical Quarterly

Download or read book The Musical Quarterly written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: