Author: Katharine Luomala
Publisher:
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Category : Biographers
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: OL:L3f:Bull Ferris Staff
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631902355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Katharine Luomala
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Katharine Luomala
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637534X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 661

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All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.

Author: Norman John Bull
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Author: Norman J. Bull
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Author: Sharon Hamblin
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9781588435163
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Travel guide to hotels, restaurants, shopping sights and activities.

Author: Barbara Wilson
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845071592
Category : Mythology, Polynesian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Long ago, when the world was new and little Maui was born, the great god Tama carried him away to the underworld to learn magic. When Maui came back to earth, his brothers made fun of him and wouldn't take him out fishing. They stole away in their boat, laughing at him and thinking he was still asleep -- but Maui outwitted his brothers, caught the biggest fish in the ocean, and in the process created something amazing! This charming tale of Maui of the Thousand Tricks is accompanied by the brilliant, sun-splashed artwork of illustrator Frane Lessac.

Author: Robert Dean Craig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313069468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Prior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesian Triangle, twice the size of the United States. In this first reference guide to the mythology of these Vikings of the Pacific, Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction sets the subject in its geographic, historical, anthropological, and linguistic contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the origin of the Polynesians as a distinct people and tracing their voyages and settlements from Indonesia to Malaysia, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, the various islands of eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand. The introduction presents fascinating information on Polynesian navigational skills and the voyages themselves, as well as a chart that details the evolution of the thirty Polynesian languages and compares cognates from several of these languages. A simplified pronunciation guide and a selected list of Polynesian dictionaries and/or grammars are provided for those interested in pursuing the richness of the Polynesian languages. This introductory survey gives readers the necessary background to understand the origin, development, and dispersion of the myths throughout the Pacific basin. The Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology is the result of many years of research. The individual entries were gleaned from nearly 300 sources in English, German, French, and Polynesian languages with the majority extracted from a number of primary sources that date generally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The printed source materials for this volume are fully described and listed by geographical group, including Maori, Cook Islands, Tahitian, Marquesan, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Tongan. General collections that retell the Polynesian stories are also surveyed. The entries are alphabetically arranged by major mythological figure; lesser characters can be located in the index. Short bibliographical citations--author, date, and page number--are included at the end of each main entry to direct readers to fuller information contained in the printed sources. An appendix provides valuable supplemental information on Polynesian gods and goddesses. This dictionary is sure to become a basic reference tool for libraries, students, and scholars of Pacific history and culture, as well as for courses in mythology, religion, and philosophy.