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Autore |
Lankford George E. <1938-> |
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Titolo |
Looking for lost lore [[electronic resource] ] : studies in folklore, ethnology, and iconography / / George E. Lankford |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America |
Indian mythology |
Social structure - North America |
Indians of North America - Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-239) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Losing the lore -- A maze of maize myths -- Red and white -- Saying hello in La Florida -- Saying hello in the Mississippi Valley -- "Reysed after there manner" -- Riders in the sky -- Heads and tales -- A hero's life. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach-perhaps multidisciplinary, perhaps a new method, or maybe just with a new hypothesis for testing. Vanished societies have left behind masses of raw data, but it is up to us to discover new ways to look through these windows into the past. Especially in light of the growing relationship-and tensi |
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