Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook: Greenwood Folklore Handbooks
Autor Donald R. Hillen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 oct 2007 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780313336058
ISBN-10: 0313336059
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Greenwood Folklore Handbooks
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0313336059
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Greenwood Folklore Handbooks
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Notă biografică
DONALD R. HILL is Professor of Anthropology and Africana and Latino Studies at State University College at Oneonta. He has been a Curator of Education at the American Museum of Natural History, and his previous books include Calypso Calaloo: Early Trinidadian Carnival Music (1993), and The Impact of Migration on the Metropolitan and Folk Society of Carriacou, Grenada (1977).
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This guide to Caribbean folklore is a useful reference book for scholars as well as anyone interested in beginning research on the subject. Unlike other texts, it expands the geographical map of what is commonly understood as the Caribbean to explore pockets of Caribbean culture found in the United States (South Carolina, Georgia, New Orleans, Southern Louisiana, and even New York City) and Cananda (Montreal). It also does not restrict itslef to a specific Caribbean language and includes folklore from Spanish-, English-, and French-speaking parts of the Caribbean. Its layout is easy to follow with sections that provide definitions and classifications, examples of folklore and texts, outstanding scholars in the field, and Caribbean folklore's influence on cutlure -- music, literature, and dance. Following the text is a lengthy glossary, a bibliography, and web resources.
The Greenwood Folklore Handbooks series has published yet another fine introduction to a specific topic under its general rubric. The author of this well-put-together book knows that the folklore of the Caribbean, although widespread in its influence, has not been well documented in the academic world. Therefore, Hill has collated what does exist, written informative essays to cover broad general areas, explained what is and is not clear and/or available in the current literature, and given extensive bibliographies for researchers and interested students to follow up on and do larger studies in the future..As the far corners of our world become easier to reach, it is important that we incorporate anything that is unique into the larger vision of what we are and what we can become as a world culture. Every place of human habitation has something to say about our values. This handbook is a good starting place for understanding a heretofore less-than-clear part of that culture.
With such a diverse African and Spanish heritage the folklore of the Caribbean is complex. Where other books examine the historic aspects of folklore, Donald Hill's experience was of a culture still alive with ancient tradition.
[A] winning collection..From examples and texts to definitions and classifications of Caribbean folklore, this reference covers customs, culture, and literary and social contexts alike, and is a key to understanding the body of literature on Caribbean folklore.
.Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook holds the potential to be most useful in a classroom environment where concepts and topics can be fleshed out and contextualized through guided discussion and research.
The Greenwood Folklore Handbooks series has published yet another fine introduction to a specific topic under its general rubric. The author of this well-put-together book knows that the folklore of the Caribbean, although widespread in its influence, has not been well documented in the academic world. Therefore, Hill has collated what does exist, written informative essays to cover broad general areas, explained what is and is not clear and/or available in the current literature, and given extensive bibliographies for researchers and interested students to follow up on and do larger studies in the future..As the far corners of our world become easier to reach, it is important that we incorporate anything that is unique into the larger vision of what we are and what we can become as a world culture. Every place of human habitation has something to say about our values. This handbook is a good starting place for understanding a heretofore less-than-clear part of that culture.
With such a diverse African and Spanish heritage the folklore of the Caribbean is complex. Where other books examine the historic aspects of folklore, Donald Hill's experience was of a culture still alive with ancient tradition.
[A] winning collection..From examples and texts to definitions and classifications of Caribbean folklore, this reference covers customs, culture, and literary and social contexts alike, and is a key to understanding the body of literature on Caribbean folklore.
.Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook holds the potential to be most useful in a classroom environment where concepts and topics can be fleshed out and contextualized through guided discussion and research.