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This volume contains a selection of three translations of articles by Josep M. Pujol (Barcelona, 1947–2012), one in each of the three areas that he defined to characterise his work in the field of folklore: the theory of interactive artistic communication; the history of folklore studies and folk literature; and folk narrative. The three articles give a taste of the important contributions he made to the study of folklore, and which have been studied and contextualised by Carme Oriol in the introduction that precedes the three texts. This edition also includes the complete folkloric bibliography of Josep M. Pujol in chronological order, with all the references.

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The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.

Welsh literature. --- annwfn. --- arthurian romances. --- bendigeidfran. --- branwen. --- celtic literature. --- celtic mythology. --- celtic. --- celts. --- culhwch and olwen. --- culhwch. --- elphin. --- fiction. --- folk narrative. --- folklore. --- folktale. --- gwion bach. --- gwion. --- gwydion. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous peoples. --- legend. --- lludd and lleuelys. --- llyr. --- mabinogi. --- manawydan. --- math. --- mathonwy. --- medieval. --- myth. --- narrative. --- prince of dyfed. --- pwyll. --- red book of hergest. --- storytelling. --- taliesin. --- wales. --- welsh mythology. --- welsh tradition. --- white book of rhydderch.

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Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respective expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these tales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native Palestinians, the authors are well-suited to their task. Over the course of several years they collected tales in the regions of the Galilee, Gaza, and the West Bank, determining which were the most widely known and appreciated and selecting the ones that best represented the Palestinian Arab folk narrative tradition. Great care has been taken with the translations to maintain the original flavor, humor, and cultural nuances of tales that are at once earthy and whimsical. The authors have also provided footnotes, an international typology, a comprehensive motif index, and a thorough analytic guide to parallel tales in the larger Arab tradition in folk narrative. Speak, Bird, Speak Again is an essential guide to Palestinian culture and a must for those who want to deepen their understanding of a troubled, enduring people.

Folk literature, Arabic. --- Folk literature, Arabic - Palestine - Translations into English. --- Folklore. --- Palestine. --- Palestinian Arabs. --- Palestinian Arabs - Folklore. --- Tales. --- Tales-- Palestine. --- Tales --- Palestinian Arabs --- Folk literature, Arabic --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Arabic folk literature --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Arabic literature --- Folk literature --- anthropology. --- arab. --- arabs. --- bridegrooms. --- brides. --- courtship. --- creation myths. --- environment. --- fairy tales. --- fiction. --- folk narrative. --- folklore. --- folktales. --- galilee. --- gaza. --- gender. --- husbands and wives. --- islam. --- love. --- middle east literature. --- middle east. --- motif index. --- mythology. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- oral tradition. --- palestine. --- palestinian arab. --- palestinian culture. --- palestinian folktales. --- palestinian studies. --- parenting. --- romance. --- sexuality. --- social science. --- storytelling. --- typology. --- west bank.

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This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how he becomes enmeshed in historical debates, ranging from the local to the national level.The world the Bedouin inhabit is rich in oral tradition and historical argument, in subtle reflections on the nature of truth and its relationship to poetics, textuality, and power. Skillfully blending anthropology and history, Shryock discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators—those who sustain an older tradition of authoritative oral history and those who have experimented with the first written accounts. His focus throughout is on the development of a "genealogical nationalism" as well as on the tensions that arise between tribe and state.Rich in both personal revelation and cultural implications, this book poses a provocative challenge to traditional assumptions about the way history is written.

Bedouins --- Oral tradition --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Historiography --- National movements --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Jordan --- Genealogy. --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Jordanien --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Urdun --- Urdunn --- Yarden --- Transjordan --- abbadi clan. --- adwani clan. --- anthropology. --- bedouin storytellers. --- community. --- contemporary middle east. --- folk history. --- folk narrative. --- genealogy. --- historical documents. --- historical memory. --- historical narrative. --- history. --- jordan. --- literacy. --- middle east. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- oral history. --- oral tradition. --- photographs. --- poetics. --- politics. --- textuality. --- tribal history. --- tribal identity. --- tribal jordan. --- village. --- world history. --- written history. --- Historiography.

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In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.

Folklore in rabbinical literature. --- Women in rabbinical literature. --- Rabbinical literature --- Jewish legends --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Women in the Talmud --- History and criticism. --- Galilee (Israel) --- Galil (Israel) --- Israel, Northern --- Jalīl (Israel) --- Northern Israel --- Northern Palestine --- Palestine, Northern --- Social life and customs. --- Jews -- Israel -- Galilee -- Folklore.. --- Jewish legends -- History and criticism.. --- Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.. --- Women in rabbinical literature.. --- Folklore in rabbinical literature.. --- Galilee (Israel) -- Social life and customs. --- amoraic. --- antique judaism. --- aramaic. --- divinity. --- doctrine. --- early christianity. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- feminist theory. --- folk literature. --- folk narrative. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- folktales. --- galilee. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- jewish culture. --- jewish life. --- jewish literature. --- jewish religion. --- jewish studies. --- jewish women. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- legend. --- nonfiction. --- parables. --- patriarchy. --- proverbs. --- rabbi. --- rabbinic stories. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- religious stories. --- religious texts. --- riddles. --- taubman. --- theology. --- women and religion. --- womens studies.