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Prayer. --- Human body --- 248.143 --- Body, Human (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Worship --- Prayers --- Religious aspects. --- Gebed. Bidden --- Schmitz, Hermann. --- 248.143 Gebed. Bidden --- Prayer --- Religious aspects

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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Africa --- Oral tradition --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Folklore. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Oral tradition - Africa --- Folklore - Africa

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Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events--the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798--and folkloric representations of those events.

Popular culture --- Folklore and history --- French Expedition to Ireland, 1796-1797. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Folk-lore and history --- History and folklore --- History --- Bantry Bay Expedition, 1796-1797 --- Brest Expedition, 1796-1797 --- First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797 --- History. --- Campaigns --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- Public opinion. --- Historiography.

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Epic poetry, Kara-Kalpak --- Folk poetry, Kara-Kalpak --- Folklore - Uzbekistan - Karakalpakstan --- Folklore --- Karakalpak folk poetry --- Karakalpak poetry --- Karakalpak epic poetry --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Epic poetry, Kara-Kalpak. --- Folk poetry, Kara-Kalpak.

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In this world tour of folklore and ancient art, Varner examines the images we give to the spirit of nature and explores this important aspect of human perception.

Green Man (Tale). --- Green Man (Tale) --- Trees --- Sacred groves --- Tree worship --- Nature worship --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Nature --- Worship --- Groves, Sacred --- Shrines --- Folk-lore of trees --- Jack-in-the Green (Tale) --- Woodwose (Tale) --- Tales --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Rocks --- Megalithic monuments. --- Cyclopean remains --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Monuments --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Rocks (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Religious aspects. --- Sacred groves. --- Tree worship. --- Nature worship. --- History and criticism. --- Folklore.