Judeo-spanish ballads from Bosnia
Can culture be at the same time a creative and hegemonic or counter-hegemonic process? This question is discussed in relation to the culture of the rural society of Olymbos of the Greek island Karpathos. The focus is on a central dimension of Olymbitian culture, the ritual poetr…
Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to…
These 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers and laments in the original languages and in English convey the worldview and an insight into the lives of pre-literate peoples in various stages of cultural and social development. The texts illustrate the beliefs, perceptions and artisti…
These 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers and laments in the original languages and in English convey the worldview and an insight into the lives of pre-literate peoples in various stages of cultural and social development. The texts illustrate the beliefs, perceptions and artisti…
"The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher. These archive …
