wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore
ISBN: 9781574411003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, consisting of fourteen essays on Texas folklore and folk life. Beliefs and customs, riddles and proverbs, songs and stories: the breadth of Texas folklore is well illustrated by the best of Texas s folklorists.
" A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, consisting of fourteen essays on Texas folklore and folk life. Beliefs and customs, riddles and proverbs,...
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85,77 zł |
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Some Still Do: Essays on Texas Customs
ISBN: 9781574411027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching water the same way their fathers and grandfathers did a hundred years ago. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a collection of essays on some of the olds waysthe customsstill practiced in Texas. It is not an exercise in nostalgia, but a look at practical ways of dealing with problems of survival and coping with nature and people.
" Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching water the same way their fathers and grandfathers did...
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95,90 zł |
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Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany
ISBN: 9781574411058 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a traditional Texas literary sonovagun. Cowboy ballads, bateaus, gaucho songs, mineral wells, corridos, Aggie war stories, songs of Bob Wills, Baptist kids, coyotes, and old-time cowboys are all simmered together and spiced with discussions of folklore, heaven, neighborhood gatherings, cotton growing, and family characters.
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a traditional Texas literary sonovagun. Cowboy ballads, bateaus, gaucho songs, mineral wells, corrid...
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85,77 zł |
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Singin' Texas
ISBN: 9780929398716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework.
This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework. <...
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151,56 zł |
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The Folklore of Texan Cultures
ISBN: 9781574411010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A lot of different kinds of people have come to Texas since the Spanish first met the Indians within its borders. And that is what this book is aboutall the Cajuns and Mexicans and Czechs, all the colors and breeds and bones that have come to Texas and mixed their blood and their ways of life with the land they settled and the people they neighbored with. The main body of the book consists of writings about the customs and cures and the songs and stories and tales that twenty-four different ethnic groups brought with them when they came to stay in Texas.
" A lot of different kinds of people have come to Texas since the Spanish first met the Indians within its borders. And that is what this book is abouta...
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136,38 zł |
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T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore
ISBN: 9781574411034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains a valuable chronological and bibliographical listing of Texas Folklore Society publications. It also includes twenty-five folk tales, including the lore of the armadillo, Texas country schoolteachers; legal lore from the courthouse; persimmon beer; classic honky tonks; Mexican lore on how to have, hold, or free oneself of a lover; Pecos Bill; the vampire; peyote ceremonialism; animal metaphors; Texas prison folklore; oil field jokes; and quilting, among others.
" This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains a valuable chronological and bibliographical listing of Texas Folklore Society publications. I...
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111,08 zł |
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Tales from the Big Thicket, 1
ISBN: 9781574411423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with untamed nature. The secretive beauty and mystery of this pocket of wilderness lying between the sandy East Texas forests and the prairies of the Gulf Coastal region would inevitably inspire tales-and the pioneers who came to terms with this land were an individualistic and legend-creating lot. In Tales from the Big Thicket, Francis E. Abernethy presents a collection of stories about the Big Thicket and its people. He begins with a background...
The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with un...
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80,59 zł |