Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152000981
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Loi's family promises to wed her to an older man. She flees to Ho Chi Minh City and, with her boyfriend, prepares to leave for America in search of her biological father.
Song of the Buffalo Boy
Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152000981
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Loi's family promises to wed her to an older man. She flees to Ho Chi Minh City and, with her boyfriend, prepares to leave for America in search of her biological father.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152000981
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Loi's family promises to wed her to an older man. She flees to Ho Chi Minh City and, with her boyfriend, prepares to leave for America in search of her biological father.
Fieldiana
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publication
Author: Frank Bigelow Tarbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Abstracts : p. 51-60.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Abstracts : p. 51-60.
Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Abstracts : p. 419-475.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Abstracts : p. 419-475.
The Adventures of a Little French Boy. Translated from the French
Author: Alfred Guézenec
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Last Race
Author: James D. Fletcher
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059577864X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Along Minnesota's rugged north shore of Lake Superior, some call Swift River the spirit of the wilderness. Others call him a murderer. James Youngest, a young newspaperman from Philadelphia visiting the Minnesota wilderness, knows the truth. He also knows there are people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being told. James Youngest, coerced by his own conscience, assists the elderly Indian through Minnesota's harsh north woods in order to evade his pursuers. A breathtaking chase begins and Swift River and James Youngest race toward a place the Indian calls the Two Falls, a place where Swift River assures he will never be found. Who is Swift River? James Youngest met him when he was eleven years old during his only prior visit to the north shore. Swift River had saved young James' life from a near drowning incident, but immediately after saving him, he vanished into the woods. Now, twelve years later, their paths cross again and it is James Youngest's turn to save Swift River. During their desperate race, Swift River reveals to James Youngest his extraordinary past and his life as a Mandan. The Last Race finishes with a compelling revelation and climax.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059577864X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Along Minnesota's rugged north shore of Lake Superior, some call Swift River the spirit of the wilderness. Others call him a murderer. James Youngest, a young newspaperman from Philadelphia visiting the Minnesota wilderness, knows the truth. He also knows there are people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being told. James Youngest, coerced by his own conscience, assists the elderly Indian through Minnesota's harsh north woods in order to evade his pursuers. A breathtaking chase begins and Swift River and James Youngest race toward a place the Indian calls the Two Falls, a place where Swift River assures he will never be found. Who is Swift River? James Youngest met him when he was eleven years old during his only prior visit to the north shore. Swift River had saved young James' life from a near drowning incident, but immediately after saving him, he vanished into the woods. Now, twelve years later, their paths cross again and it is James Youngest's turn to save Swift River. During their desperate race, Swift River reveals to James Youngest his extraordinary past and his life as a Mandan. The Last Race finishes with a compelling revelation and climax.
The Pawnee; Mythology (part I)
Author: George Amos Dorsey
Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn from the large body of oral literature of many of China's recognized ethnic groups including the Han, Yi, Miao, Tu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Kazak and the selections include a variety of genres. Chapters cover folk stories, songs, rituals, and drama, as well as epic traditions and professional storytelling, and feature both familiar and little-known texts, from the story of the woman warrior Hua Mulan to the love stories of urban storytellers in the Yangtze delta, the shaman rituals of the Manchu, and a trickster tale of the Daur people from the forests of the northeast. The Cannibal Grandmother of the Yi and other strange creatures and characters unsettle accepted notions of Chinese fable and literary form. Readers are introduced to antiphonal songs of the Zhuang and the Dong, who live among the fantastic limestone hills of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; work and matchmaking songs of the mountain-dwelling She of Fujian province; and saltwater songs of the Cantonese-speaking boat people of Hong Kong. The editors feature the Mongolian epic poems of Geser Khan and Jangar; the sad tale of the Qeo family girl, from the Tu people of Gansu and Qinghai provinces; and local plays known as "rice sprouts" from Hebei province. These fascinating juxtapositions invite comparisons among cultures, styles, and genres, and expert translations preserve the individual character of each thrillingly imaginative work.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn from the large body of oral literature of many of China's recognized ethnic groups including the Han, Yi, Miao, Tu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Kazak and the selections include a variety of genres. Chapters cover folk stories, songs, rituals, and drama, as well as epic traditions and professional storytelling, and feature both familiar and little-known texts, from the story of the woman warrior Hua Mulan to the love stories of urban storytellers in the Yangtze delta, the shaman rituals of the Manchu, and a trickster tale of the Daur people from the forests of the northeast. The Cannibal Grandmother of the Yi and other strange creatures and characters unsettle accepted notions of Chinese fable and literary form. Readers are introduced to antiphonal songs of the Zhuang and the Dong, who live among the fantastic limestone hills of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; work and matchmaking songs of the mountain-dwelling She of Fujian province; and saltwater songs of the Cantonese-speaking boat people of Hong Kong. The editors feature the Mongolian epic poems of Geser Khan and Jangar; the sad tale of the Qeo family girl, from the Tu people of Gansu and Qinghai provinces; and local plays known as "rice sprouts" from Hebei province. These fascinating juxtapositions invite comparisons among cultures, styles, and genres, and expert translations preserve the individual character of each thrillingly imaginative work.
The Meaning of Myth in World Cultures
Author: Michael Buonanno
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mythology--circulated in sacred stories (myths) and their reenactments (rituals)--is the basis of any society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology's meaning depends on the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors that are at the same time ecological (arising from a society's environmental exploitation), sociological (based on indigenous social relations) and ideological (couched in terms of a society's worldview). But tellingly, these metaphors are embodied in anthropomorphic spirits, fostering a deep sense of identification with those spirits as well as with individuals who share in one's spiritual devotions. This study examines mythology from a global perspective, citing case studies in cultural traditions from Africa, Europe, Oceania, Native America and elsewhere.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mythology--circulated in sacred stories (myths) and their reenactments (rituals)--is the basis of any society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology's meaning depends on the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors that are at the same time ecological (arising from a society's environmental exploitation), sociological (based on indigenous social relations) and ideological (couched in terms of a society's worldview). But tellingly, these metaphors are embodied in anthropomorphic spirits, fostering a deep sense of identification with those spirits as well as with individuals who share in one's spiritual devotions. This study examines mythology from a global perspective, citing case studies in cultural traditions from Africa, Europe, Oceania, Native America and elsewhere.
All Our Relatives
Author:
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 9780941532778
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Discusses Lakota ceremonies and prayers that we all share in Creation of people, birds, animals, plants, trees, rocks, and rivers.
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 9780941532778
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Discusses Lakota ceremonies and prayers that we all share in Creation of people, birds, animals, plants, trees, rocks, and rivers.