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The Greenwood encyclopedia of world folklore and folklife
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of world folklore and folklife

Author: William M Clements
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William M Clements
ISBN: 0313328471 031332848X 0313328498 0313328501 031332851X 9780313328473 9780313328480 9780313328497 9780313328503 9780313328510
OCLC Number: 61027381
Description: 4 v. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: v. 1. Topics and themes; Africa, Australia and Oceania -- Foreword / Thomas A. Green -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Comprehensive list of entries -- [pt. 1]. Topics and themes in world folklore -- Antiquarianism -- Archives -- Bibliography -- Colonialism -- Cultural evolution -- Cultural relativism -- Culture area -- Diaspora -- Diffusion -- Ethnicity -- Ethnography -- Ethnopoetics -- Field work -- Fieldwork -- Folklorism -- Frontier -- Gender -- Globalization -- Hero -- Hybridity -- Invented tradition -- Modernization -- Motif -- Museums -- Nationalism -- Nativism -- Oikotypification -- Performance theory -- Popular culture -- Primitivism -- Public folklore -- Race -- Repertoire -- Text -- Tourism -- Translation -- Trickster -- Type -- Worldview -- [pt. 2]. Africa -- North Africa -- Berber -- Tuareg -- Eastern Africa -- Abanyole -- Jie -- Madagascar and the Comoros -- Mascarene Islands -- Swahili -- Western and Central Africa -- Baule -- Benin -- Ga -- Igbo -- Ijo -- Wolof -- Yoruba -- Zande -- Southern Africa -- Lunda -- San -- Xhosa -- Zulu -- [pt. 3]. Australia and Oceania -- Australia -- Australia (British) -- Australian Aborigines -- Melanesia -- Malaita -- New Caledonia -- Trobriand Islands -- Vanuatu -- Micronesia -- Guam -- Kiribati -- Marshall Islands -- Palau -- Polynesia -- Hawai'i -- Marquesas Islands -- Samoa -- Tonga -- Tuvalu -- Cumulative index -- v. 2. Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East -- Foreword / Thomas A. Green -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Comprehensive list of entries -- [pt. 1]. Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent -- India : states and regions -- India overview -- Assam -- Bihar -- Gaddi -- Haryana -- Karnataka -- Kashmir -- Khasi-Jaintia -- Nagaland -- Orissa -- Uttar Pradesh -- South Asia -- Bangladesh -- Bhutan -- Nepal -- Sri Lanka -- Southeast Asia -- Isaan -- Malay -- Semai -- East Indies -- Bali -- Duna -- Iban -- Kadazandusun -- Kaliai -- Kewa -- Maluku -- Tairora -- [pt. 2]. Central and East Asia -- China and East Asia -- China overview -- Chinese abroad -- Manchu -- Mongol -- Taiwan (Republic of China) -- Japan and Korea -- Japan overview -- Ainu (Japan) -- Korea -- Central Asia and Siberia -- Kazakh -- Siberia -- Tajik -- Uyghur -- Uzbek -- [pt. 3]. Middle East -- Armenia -- Israel -- Kurds -- Lebanon -- Palestine -- Persia -- Turkey -- Yemen -- Cumulative index -- v. 3. Europe -- Foreword / Thomas A. Green -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Comprehensive list of entries -- [pt. 1]. Europe -- Britain and Ireland -- England -- Ireland -- Isle of Man -- Wales -- Nordic countries -- Denmark -- Finland -- Finnish-Swedish -- Greenland -- Iceland -- Norway -- Sámi -- Sweden -- Western Europe -- France : peoples and regions -- France overview -- Brittany -- Iberian Peninsula : peoples and regions -- Spain overview -- Basque -- Catalan -- Galicia -- Sephardim -- The Low Countries -- Flanders (Belgium) -- The Netherlands -- Central Europe -- Austria -- Germany -- Hungary -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Switzerland -- Eastern Europe -- Albania -- Ashkenazim -- Croatia -- Georgia -- Latvia -- Macedonia -- Poland -- Roma -- Russia -- Serbia -- Ukraine -- The Mediterranean -- Italy : peoples and regions -- Italy overview -- Piedmont and Val d'Aosta -- Sicily -- Other Mediterranean countries -- Greece -- Malta -- Cumulative index -- v. 4. North and South America -- Foreword / Thomas A. Green -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Comprehensive list of entries -- [pt. 1]. North America -- American Indian -- Apache -- Cherokee -- Cheyenne -- Choctaw -- Haida -- Hopi -- Iroquois -- Kiowa -- Lakota -- Navajo -- Nez Perce -- Ojibwe -- Seminole -- Tlingit -- Western Inuit and Yupik -- African American and regional non-native cultures -- African American -- Appalachia -- Mississippi Delta -- [pt. 2]. South and Central America and the Caribbean -- South America -- Caipira (Brazil) -- Candoshi -- Ecuador -- Kaingang -- Peru -- Quechua -- Sertão (Brazil) -- Shuar -- Sibundoy -- Suriname Maroon -- Xavante -- Yanomami -- Mexico and Central America -- Maya -- Mexico -- Nahua -- Otomí -- Rarámuri -- Caribbean -- Cuba -- Haiti -- Island Carib (Dominica) -- Jamaica -- Appendix : Geographical guide to peoples, cultures, and regions -- Glossary -- General bibliography -- Editors, contributors, and translators -- Cumulative index.
Responsibility: edited by William M. Clements ; Thomas A. Green, advisory editor.
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