Anthropology
Folklore & Mythology
33 Results

The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
by Michael Dylan Foster (Author), Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)Oct 2024
The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion
by Armin W. Geertz (Author)Nov 2023
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
by Ibrahim Muhawi (Author), Sharif Kanaana (Author), and 2 moreNov 2021


A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas
by Richard E. Strassberg (Editor), Richard E. Strassberg (Translator)Mar 2018

Email from Ngeti: An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa
by James H. Smith (Author), Ngeti Mwadime (Author)Sep 2014
The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
by Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jean I Young (Translator)Jun 2012
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
by Jesse L. Byock (Translator)Jun 2012

Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900
by Cynthia Eller (Author)Mar 2011
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
by Michael Dylan Foster (Author)Nov 2008

The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
by Theodora Kroeber (Author), Karl Kroeber (Foreword by)Dec 2005
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
by Gananath Obeyesekere (Author)Jun 2005
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America
by Gary Alan Fine (Author), Patricia A. Turner (Author)May 2004
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
by Ella E. Clark (Author), Robert Bruce Inverarity (Illustrator)Apr 2003
Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity
by Galit Hasan-Rokem (Author)Feb 2003