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Author : Katharine Luomala
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun written by Katharine Luomala and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520036390
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Yurok Myths written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles E.M. Pearce
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048138264
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Oceanic Migration written by Charles E.M. Pearce and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific. It uses science and mathematics to expand the research base of Pacific prehistory and casts new light on this final human expansion. It explores the fundamental roles of oceanography and of global climate change in determining the paths, sequence, timing and range of Spice Island-based maritime migrations ranging across a quarter of the globe. The book is of interest to Pacific prehistorians, oceanographers and American anthropologists concerned with the diffusionist debate. For oceanographers it presents the new idea of the role of the West Pacific Warm Pool and of three of its four major currents in determining the evolution of voyaging in two oceans. For diffusionists it provides new chronological and technological contexts in which the issue of diffusionism needs to be reconsidered. For prehistorians it creates a paradigmatic shift by establishing a new time depth and mechanism for Polynesian exploration, offers a new view of voyaging and exploration strategies and of economic imperatives and adds a new dimension to the debate on Polynesian origins.
Author : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monograph Series written by Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martina Bucková
Publisher : Ústav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
ISBN 13 : 8089607063
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Māui: Polynesian Culture Hero. Variations of Motifs in Māui Mythological Cycle in East and West Polynesia. written by Martina Bucková and published by Ústav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monography deals with the problem of Polynesian culture hero – in local mythology named Māui. The purpose of this work is to summarise, analyse and compare individual motifs in the mythological cycle of this culture hero – who appears not only in Polynesia, but also in the mythology of Melanesia and Micronesia. I concentrated especially on searching the like and unlike motifs in eastern Polynesian and western Polynesian myths. The focus lays in comparing the mythological motifs from Māui cycle which relate to his most important actions – fishing up islands from the bottom of the sea, lifting the skies from the earth, restraining the movement of the sun in the sky, bringing the gift of fire and attempt at gaining immortality for mankind. Based on information acquired the purpose was to build a typology and overview of differences in the selected individual myths about this culture hero.
Author : Regina F. Bendix
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118863143
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Folklore written by Regina F. Bendix and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Author : Stith Thompson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520033597
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)
Download or read book The Folktale written by Stith Thompson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
Author : Leonid E. Grinin
Publisher : ООО "Издательство "Учитель"
ISBN 13 : 5705752474
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)
Download or read book History & Mathematics: written by Leonid E. Grinin and published by ООО "Издательство "Учитель". This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Yearbook (which is the sixth in the series) is subtitled Economy, Demography, Culture, and Cosmic Civilizations. To some extent it reveals the extraordinary potential of scientific research. The common feature of all our Yearbooks, including the present volume, is the usage of formal methods and social studies methods in their synthesis to analyze different phenomena. In other words, if to borrow Alexander Pushkin's words, ‘to verify the algebra with harmony’. One should note that publishing in a single collection the articles that apply mathematical methods to the study of various epochs and scales – from deep historical reconstruction to the pressing problems of the modern world – reflects our approach to the selection of contributions for the Yearbook. History and Mathematics, Social Studies and formal methods, as previously noted, can bring nontrivial results in the studies of different spheres and epochs. This issue consists of three main sections: (I) Historical and Technological Dimensions includes two papers (the first is about the connection between genes, myths and waves of the peopling of Americas; the second one is devoted to quantitative analysis of innovative activity and competition in technological sphere in the Middle Ages and Modern Period); (II) Economic and Cultural Dimensions (the contributions are mostly focused on modern period); (III) Modeling and Theories includes two papers with interesting models (the first one concerns modeling punctuated equilibria apparent in the macropattern of urbanization over time; in the second one the author attempts to estimate the number of Communicative Civilizations). We hope that this issue will be interesting and useful both for historians and mathematicians, as well as for all those dealing with various social and natural sciences.
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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book SunWise written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 CD-ROM in English, 1 CD-ROM in Spanish containing over 50 standards-based, cross-curricular activities, posters, videos, poligy guidelines, fact sheets, brochures, story and activity books, and more.
Author : A. Grove Day
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824885007
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Legends in English written by A. Grove Day and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two centuries, a considerable number of Hawaiian legends have been translated into English. Although this material has been the subject of studies in anthropology, ethnology, and comparative mythology, no study has been made made of the translations and the translators themselves. Nor has a definitive bibliography of published translations been compiled. The purpose of this volume is to provide an extensive, annotated bibliography of both primary translations and secondary retellings in English, together with a historical and critical study of the more important translations.
Author : Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin written by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226158748
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Folktales Told Around the World written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
Author : Katharine Luomala
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Maui-of-a-thousand-tricks written by Katharine Luomala and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carroll L. Riley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477304789
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Man Across the Sea written by Carroll L. Riley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether humans crossed the seas between the Old World and the New in the times before Columbus is a tantalizing question that has long excited scholarly interest and tempted imaginations the world over. From the myths of Atlantis and Mu to the more credible, perhaps, but hardly less romantic tales of Viking ships and Buddhist missionaries, people have speculated upon what is, after all, not simply a question of contact, but of the nature and growth of civilization itself. To the specialist, it is an important question indeed. If people in the Western Hemisphere and in the Eastern Hemisphere developed their cultures more or less independently from the end of the last Ice Age until the voyages of Columbus, the remarkable similarities between New World and Old World cultures reveal something important about the evolution of culture. If, on the other hand, there were widespread or sustained contacts between the hemispheres in pre-Columbian times, these contacts represent events of vast significance to the prehistory and history of humanity. Originally delivered at a symposium held in May 1968, during the national meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, the papers presented here, by scholars eminent in the field, offer differing points of view and considerable evidence on the pros and cons of pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the New. Various kinds of data—archaeological, botanical, geographical, and historical—are brought to bear on the problem, with provocative and original results. Introductory and concluding remarks by the editors pull together and evaluate the evidence and suggest ground rules for future studies of this sort. Man across the Sea provides no final answers as to whether people from Asia, Africa, or Europe visited the American Indian before Columbus. It does, however, present new evidence, suggested lines of approach, and a fresh attempt to delineate the problems involved and to establish acceptable canons of evidence for the future.
Author : James S. Ormrod
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137363525
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space written by James S. Ormrod and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Societies have always been formed in a relationship with the rest of the universe. With rapid developments in satellite communications and imaging, space exploration and tourism, military space technology, and cosmology itself, relationships with outer space are changing. These changes have inspired a wave of critical academic work in recent years, re-examining the history, present and future of outer space and the place of humans within it. This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of major themes relating to society, culture and the universe and will inspire and cultivate debate in this exciting and burgeoning area of study for future researchers and theorists. Bringing together scholarship from a range of disciplines including geography, economics, history, political science, sociology, philosophy, science and technology studies, law, cultural astronomy, anthropology, media studies, literature, psychosocial studies and art, it closely examines how outer space is socially produced, experienced, perceived and imagined, and the significance of this for terrestrial social life.
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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Forsyth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214603
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Old Enemy written by Neil Forsyth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.
