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African American Folktales

Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

by Roger Abrahams ...

Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale ... Read more

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Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale
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African Folktales

by Roger Abrahams ...

Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, ... Read more

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The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories,
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Everyday Life

A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

by Roger Abrahams ...

A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and ... Read more

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A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and
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Everyday Life

A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

by Roger Abrahams ...

A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and ... Read more

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A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and
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Blues for New Orleans

Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

by Roger Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson ...

Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in
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Maple Days

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.In the quiet town of Rosehill, Adele Whitmore has built her life around books, familiar routines, and the comfort of keeping the world at a safe distance. At twenty-eight, the librarian knows how to organize every shelf in the library, but she is still learning how to live with grief and the emptiness it has left behind.Then Richard enters her life, ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.In the quiet town of Rosehill, Adele Whitmore has built her life around books, familiar routines, and the comfort of keeping the world at a safe distance. At twenty-eight, the librarian knows how to organize every shelf in the library, but she is still learning how to live with grief and the emptiness it has left behind.Then Richard enters her life,
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Elaris

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.In the divided city of Elaris, Elena Cabrera has learned to trust the records of the past more than the promises of the living. Working among damaged maps and forgotten names, she understands that history is never as distant as it seems. When Leonardo Bentancur arrives from the north, their unexpected connection begins to challenge the boundaries that have ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.In the divided city of Elaris, Elena Cabrera has learned to trust the records of the past more than the promises of the living. Working among damaged maps and forgotten names, she understands that history is never as distant as it seems. When Leonardo Bentancur arrives from the north, their unexpected connection begins to challenge the boundaries that have
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Moon Over Sahmara

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Beneath the moonlit dunes of Sahmara, an ancient mystery is stirring, and a single lantern has begun calling someone home.Kael Mareth has always known the quiet beauty of Ashal after sunset. But when strange visions of white towers beneath the moon begin haunting his sleep, he discovers that something buried beneath the desert is awakening. Drawn into a ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Beneath the moonlit dunes of Sahmara, an ancient mystery is stirring, and a single lantern has begun calling someone home.Kael Mareth has always known the quiet beauty of Ashal after sunset. But when strange visions of white towers beneath the moon begin haunting his sleep, he discovers that something buried beneath the desert is awakening. Drawn into a
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Brindle

by K. Abraham ...

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4 hours 28 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.After losing his job, his relationship, and the life he thought he wanted, Ethan Vale returns to Brindle, the quiet town he once called home. Waiting for him is his late father's old house, filled with memories he has spent years trying to outrun.Brindle offers no grand promises of a fresh start. Instead, it gives Ethan rain-soaked streets, familiar faces, ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.After losing his job, his relationship, and the life he thought he wanted, Ethan Vale returns to Brindle, the quiet town he once called home. Waiting for him is his late father's old house, filled with memories he has spent years trying to outrun.Brindle offers no grand promises of a fresh start. Instead, it gives Ethan rain-soaked streets, familiar faces,
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Blues for New Orleans

Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

by Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson, Roger Abrahams ...

Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in
... Read more
The Ritual Process

Structure and Anti-Structure

by Victor Turner, Alfred Harris, Roger Abrahams ...

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... Read more

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In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of
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And Other Neighborly Names

Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

Edited by Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams ...

"And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody ... Read more

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"And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody
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