Search results for “[Subject: indigenous-sacred-stories]”

• Author(s): Barbara G. Myerhoff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native American Studies"Ram�n Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his c...

• Author(s): Peter Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralFrom the author of How the World Moves A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened land...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death i...

• Author(s): Patricia A. McAnany | Sarah M. Rowe • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ArchaeologyMcAnany sheds light on the varied ways today's Maya communities relate ...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who ou...

• Author(s): Stephanie W. Jamison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyVedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious ...

• Author(s): Stephanie W. Jamison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyVedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious ...

• Author(s): Teresa L. McCarty | Sheilah E. Nicholas | Gillian Wigglesworth • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralSpanning Indigenous settings across six contine...

• Author(s): Paula Richman • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Asian - GeneralWhile some religious texts may remain static over time, the Ramayana epic has been retold in a vari...

• Author(s): Csenge Virág Zalka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world abou...

• Author(s): Bradley Reed Howard • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: American Government - GeneralLong dismissed as relics of a primitive past, indigenous peoples are in...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Created by and for a specific American Indian community and offering special ma...

• Author(s): Ian Skoggard • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - ChinaUsing Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to ...

• Author(s): Dennis A. Connole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General The North American Indian group known as the Nipmucks was situated in south-cent...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A reference guide to 468 stories and folktales from China, Japan, and Korea, this book aims to lead storytellers,...

• Author(s): John Pemberton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaWhat are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? Jo...

• Author(s): Zitkala-Sa • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyA thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Dakota Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and percept...

• Author(s): Sanjay Patel • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralPixar animator and Academy Award-nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay's Super Team) brings to life Hinduism's most important gods an...