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Your search for: african AND folktales


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Research Topics on: african folktales

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Books on: african folktales

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Journal Articles on: african folktales

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Magazine Articles on: african folktales

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Newspaper Articles on: african folktales

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    Let Africa Fill Your Senses at Festival
    Newspaper article by Liz Clemmons; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 1, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Festivals
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...will give readings from "Nelson Mandelas Favorite African Folktales" from 3 to 4 p.m. Self-esteem and motivation...festival will feature a market with vendors selling African- style clothing, jewelry, accessories, crafts and...
     
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    Ethnic Cuisine Heats Up Fair
    Newspaper article by By Gwen Jader; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 11, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...art, genealogy, ethnic food and an exhibit of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. And, families enjoyed African folktales, listened to ethnic music and viewed Native American Indian dance and culture. Stephen Territo, head of patron...
     
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    The Prize Crossword
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 20, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...with pointed canines and other teeth suitable for eating flesh (9) 10 - - - Remus, fictional recounter of African American folktales (5) 13 British senior cabinet member without official duties (4,5,4) 19 Fashion magazine first published...
     
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    Books and Enrichment Send Items to Nbrcalendar@dailyherald.Com
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 6, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Public libraries
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Lincolnshire. The library will begin its yearlong event, "We the People A Community of Immigrants," with African Village Folktales from 10-10:45 a.m.; The Food of Argentina from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; The Jazmer Trio Ensemble...
     
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    Performance Notes
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 11, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...m. performances by Asian fan dancers and Eugene storyteller Paulette Ansari, who will share African and African-American stories and folktales. Admission is $3 per person and $5 for families (two adults and up to four youths). Chorus...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african folktales

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    Folktale
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are demonstrably similar...distinctions among the categories of folktales. Legends and traditions...Bibliography See S. Thompson, The Folktale (1946); V. O. Binner, American Folktales (1966) and International...Courlander, A Treasury of African Folklore (1975), A Treasury...
     
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    Children's Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. International folktales have also received increasing attention. Among the...authors pursuing these themes, Verna Aardema compiles African folktales and Yoko Kawashima Watkins studies Asian oral traditions...
     
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    Hurston, Zora Neale
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    HURSTON, ZORA NEALE 1891? 60, African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up...An anthropologist and folklorist, Hurston collected African-American folktales in the rural South and sympathetically interpreted them...
     
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    Laurence, Margaret
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and many of her early works had an African setting. Laurence was particularly...addition, Laurence published works on African literature, notably A Tree for Poverty (1954), a collection of Somali folktales and poetry, and Long Drums and Cannons...
     

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