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The Folkstories of Children
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211085
Pub Date: January 1981
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories...
The Terror That Comes in the Night
An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812213058
Pub Date: September 1989
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to...
Handmaidens of the Lord
Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812212655
Pub Date: August 1988
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812212068
Pub Date: March 1985
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted...
Metaphors of Masculinity
Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812211054
Pub Date: June 1980
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy,...
The Folkstories of Children
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812211085
Pub Date: January 1981
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories...
The Terror That Comes in the Night
An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812213058
Pub Date: September 1989
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to...
Handmaidens of the Lord
Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812212655
Pub Date: August 1988
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812212068
Pub Date: March 1985
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted...
Metaphors of Masculinity
Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812211054
Pub Date: June 1980
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy,...