Caribbean folklore : a handbook / Donald R. Hill.

By:

Hill, Donald R, 1939-

Series: Greenwood folklore handbooks | Greenwood folklore handbooksPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.Description: xi, 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780313336058
0313336059

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DDC classification:

398.209729 22

LOC classification:

GR120 .H55 2007

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Contents:

Introduction -- Definitions and classifications -- Examples and texts -- Scholarship and approaches -- Contexts.

Summary: Provides tools for examining Caribbean folklore of various incarnations, such as tales, music, material culture, and religion, discussing classification, presenting folklore examples with commentary, exploring its study, covering theories and techniques, and describing its impact on mainstream and literary Caribbean culture, and provides a glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated list of Web sites.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.

Introduction -- Definitions and classifications -- Examples and texts -- Scholarship and approaches -- Contexts.

Provides tools for examining Caribbean folklore of various incarnations, such as tales, music, material culture, and religion, discussing classification, presenting folklore examples with commentary, exploring its study, covering theories and techniques, and describing its impact on mainstream and literary Caribbean culture, and provides a glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated list of Web sites.

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