ISBN: 9780313350672

This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife.Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclo… Mehr…

This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife.Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences.The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Society & culture: general > Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge > Fol, Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)<

ISBN: 9780313350672

Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the h… Mehr…

Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences.The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Society & culture: general > Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge > Fol, ABC-CLIO<

ISBN: 9780313350672

This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Society & cultu… Mehr…

This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Society & culture: general > Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge > Fol, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<

ISBN: 9780313350672

ABC-CLIO Folklore & Mythology , UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20101221 English Social Sciences 1, Bloomsbury Publishing

2010, ISBN: 9780313350672

[3 volumes], eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: ABC-CLIO], [ED: 1], ABC-CLIO, 2010