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    Spirit Of Mountains: Foreword By Roger D. Abrahams

    Emma Bell Miles

    A classic account of mountain life, accurately portraying the people and lore of the Cumberland Mountains. Miles’ familiarity with the mountain people–and her perception of the importance of women, especially…

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    Roger D. Abrahams

    With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected…

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    Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the PlantationSouth

    Roger D. Abrahams

    A controversial and radical interpretation of the most celebrated event on the Southern plantation: the corn-shucking ceremony. Relying on written accounts and oral histories of former slaves, Abrahams reconstructs this…

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    Abrahams

    With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected…

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    African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

    Roger D. Abrahams

    These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. They robustly demonstrate the ways an uprooted people…

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    The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

    Victor Turner,Roger D. Abrahams

    Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of aeCommunitasAE. He characterises it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. Turner…

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    And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

    A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.

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    Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary

    A definitive compendium of children’s counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980.

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    Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia

    Alessandro Falassi

    This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values.

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    Jump-rope Rhymes: A Dictionary

    A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.

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    Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore

    Reviewer Roger D Abrahams (University of Pennsylvania)

    This volume surveys the importance of sea shanties in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the West Indies. In the first chapter the author surveys the documentary record of these…

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    Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul

    Roger Abrahams

    A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice! -Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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    The Problem of Poverty

    Abraham Kuyper

    A translation of the opening address at the First Christian Social Congress in the Netherlands, November 9, 1891.

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