Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices 9781136550966, 0415325560, 0415330696

Japanese Folk Plays: The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen: The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen 9781462909797, 1462909795

This collection of Japanese folk plays reveals a previously unknown and decidedly unaristocratic element to Japanese the

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Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance 9780292798632

With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are so

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The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales 9780231897716

Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabi

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The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales

These Ozark tales are fragments of local history, village legends, and morality pieces with roots deep in Europen soil.

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Japanese Baseball and other stories 1894345185

Kinsella weaves his characters into the thrill of the game, be it in Japan, Central America, Canada or the U.S., with a

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The Family Estate in Africa 0415325560, 041532985X

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Understanding Japanese Management Practices 1606491180, 9781606491188

This book outlines the particulars of Japanese management and how modern Japanese management employs many practices whic

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"The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music 9781580460958, 158046095X, 9781580461368, 1580461360

This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on Americ

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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals 9781845458423

Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a r

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Five Faces of Japanese Feminism: Crimson and Other Works 9780824866174

This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives

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