Armenian Folk-tales and Fables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armenian Folk-tales and Fables write by Charles Downing. This book was released on 1993. Armenian Folk-tales and Fables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These folk-tales were told by simple people--vine-dressers, farm-laborers, millers--and were preserved by word of mouth, to be repeated for entertainment in the coffee-house, or at home during the long, hard winters. There are fables here, too, selected from the collections of medieval scholars and philosophers, while the expressive and often humorous proverbs show the ways of the world through shrewd Armenian eyes.
Arab Folktales
Arab Folktales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab Folktales write by Inea Bushnaq. This book was released on 1987. Arab Folktales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales
The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales write by Michael Berman. This book was released on 2009-03-26. The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement … The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out” (Znamenski, 2007, p.322). Though history has of course since disproved this, the theory clearly had a great bearing on what was written in the former Soviet Union about shamanism, and also on people’s attitudes in the former Soviet Republics towards such practices. On the other hand, it has been suggested that “all intellectuals driven by nationalist sentiments directly or indirectly are always preoccupied with searching for the most ancient roots of their budding nations in order to ground their compatriots in particular soil and to make them more indigenous” (Znamenski, 2007, p.28). Although this might apply to searching for the roots of Christianity in Armenia, when it comes to searching for the roots of pagan practices, interest on the part of the people of Armenia is generally speaking not so forthcoming. This impasse, coupled with the effects of the repressions against religions, including shamanism, unleashed by the Soviet government between the 1930s and 1950s, along with the recent surge of interest in the Armenian Orthodox church, a backlash to the seventy years of officially sanctioned atheism, makes research into the subject no easy business. However, hopefully this study will at least in some small way help to set the process in motion.
Folktales of Egypt
Folktales of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folktales of Egypt write by Hasan M. El-Shamy. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Folktales of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History
Armenian Tales
Armenian Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armenian Tales write by A G Seklemian. This book was released on 2019-07-24. Armenian Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of the finest classic Armenian folk tales and legends, passed down through the generations. These tales are "captivating," entertaining and full of wisdom, true-to-tradition, and easy to read.
