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Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia: A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJukka Siikala
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Ethnographic study of religious practices and intergroup tensions in tropical Polynesia, analysing ritual, belief, and social conflict. FF Communications No. 233 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Studies in Finnic-Slavic Folklore Relations
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFelix J. Oinas
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Comparative study of Finnic and Slavic folklore, examining shared motifs, narrative structures, and cultural exchanges. FF Communications No. 205 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStith Thompson; Warren E. Roberts
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Catalogue and analysis of Indic oral tales from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, organised by tale-type and thematic motifs. FF Communications No. 180 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Indian Animal Tales: A Preliminary Survey
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLaurits Bodker
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Survey of Indian animal fables, tracing narrative structures, moral lessons, and cross-cultural folklore parallels. FF Communications No. 170 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Vainamoinen: Eternal Sage
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMartti Haavio
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Mythological study of the eternal sage of the Kalevala, exploring his role as culture hero, shaman, and primordial singer in Finnish epic tradition. FF Communications No. 144 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Index of Spanish Folktales
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph S. Boggs
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.Classified according to Antti Aarne’s types of the folktale, translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson, in FF Communicatoins No. 74. FF Communications No. 90 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Art of Mixing Metaphors: A Folkloristic Interpretation of the Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Dundes; Claudia A. Stibbe
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981.FF Communications No. 230 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Cinderella Cycle in China and Indo-China
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNai-Tung Ting
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1974.Comparative folklore study of Cinderella-type tales across China and Indo-China, highlighting regional variants, motifs, and diffusion of the cycle. FF Communications No. 213 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Incest Theme in Folksong
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1972.Folkloristic analysis of incest motifs in international folksong tradition, tracing narrative patterns, symbolism, and cultural taboos. FF Communications No. 212 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Games of the Tibetans
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSiegbert Hummel; Paul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1963.Ethnographic survey of traditional Tibetan games, combining cultural anthropology, folklore, and comparative play studies. FF Communications No. 187 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Games of the Tibetans
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSiegbert Hummel; Paul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1963.Ethnographic survey of traditional Tibetan games, combining cultural anthropology, folklore, and comparative play studies. FF Communications No. 187 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Singing Flails: A Study in Threshing-Floor Constructions, Flail-Threshing Traditions and the Magic Guarding of the House
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Sandklef
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1949.An ethnographic and folkloric study of threshing-floor architecture, flail-threshing customs, and protective agrarian magic in European peasant tradition. FF Communications No. 136 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Bibliography of Riddles
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArcher Taylor
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1939.Comprehensive scholarly bibliography compiling global riddle literature, folklore sources, and critical studies. FF Communications No. 126 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; G. A. Mossa
Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. – F. Ferroud, 1921.Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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Illustrating Camelot
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -
Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
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The Anwar-i-Suhaili or Lights of Canopus Commonly Known As Kalilah and Damnah
AU$1,800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArthur N. Wollaston
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1877.Being an adaptation by Mulla Husain Bin Ali Al Wai’z-Al-Kashifi of The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston. The 1877 English translation by Arthur Naylor Wollaston (1842-1922) of the Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables. Wollaston began work as a civil servant in the India Office at age 16 going onto become registrar. He was also an ardent Persian scholar, translating this work, as well as compiling an English-Persian Dictionary in 1882.
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Cassirer and Langer on Myth: an Introduction
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Schultz
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.A detailed overview of the significance of myth in the context of civilization and cultures, conducted by way of two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer.