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Myths, legends, and folktales of America : an anthology Cover Image Book Book

Myths, legends, and folktales of America : an anthology

Leeming, David Adams, 1937- (Added Author). Page, Jake (Added Author).

Summary: Presents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics

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  • ISBN: 0195117832 (acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195117837 (acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 221 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Zuni: the separation of the first parents -- A Cherokee Earth-diver creation myth -- A Tewa emergence creation myth -- A Hawaiian creation myth -- A Navajo myth of Changing Woman -- A Sioux myth of White Buffalo Woman -- An Inuit myth of Sedna -- A Karuk myth of Coyote -- A Tsimshian myth of Raven -- A Brule Sioux myth of the coming of the white man -- The virgin of Guadalupe -- La Llorona [the weeping woman] -- The sacred earth of Chimayo -- The Penitentes, the Passion -- The work ethic : Cotton Mather -- The almighty dollar : Benjamin Franklin -- God and the elect : Jonathan Edwards -- The melting pot : Crevecoeur -- Manifest destiny : Richard Yates and William Gilpin -- Miss Liberty -- Uncle Sam -- Yankee Doodle -- The transcendental deity : Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Technology apotheosized : Henry David Thoreau -- The dynamo : Henry Adams -- The Book of Mormon -- The devil in the West : Charles O. Brown -- The spiritual : Go down, Moses -- God and the devil : the devil's doing -- "The creation" : James Weldon Johnson -- The Nation of Islam -- Voodoo -- Hare Krishna and other movements -- Amitabha's song / Gary Snyder.

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Subject: Folklore United States
Tales United States
Legends United States
Indians of North America Folklore
African Americans Folklore
Ethnic folklore United States
United States History
United States Social life and customs

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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 398.0973 MYTHS ( Send Text)
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