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19 produkter
Stars of Ballymenone, New Edition
Häftad, 2016
253 kr
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In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh, and …
Stars of Ballymenone, New Edition
E-bok, 2016
104 kr
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In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh, and …
Vernacular Architecture
E-bok, 2000
104 kr
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Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many …
Sacred Art
Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in Modern Brazil
Av Henry Glassie, Pravina Shukla
Inbunden, 2017
569 kr
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Sacred art flourishes today in northeastern Brazil, where European and African religious traditions have intersected for centuries. Professional artists create images of both the Catholic saints and the African gods of Candomblé to meet the needs of a vast market of believers and art …
Daniel Johnston
A Portrait of the Artist As a Potter in North Carolina
Häftad, 2020
339 kr
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DANIEL JOHNSTON, raised on a farm in Randolph County, returned from Thailand with a new way to make monumental pots. Back home in North Carolina, he built a log shop and a whale of a kiln for wood-firing. Then he set out to create beautiful pots, grand in scale, graceful in form, and burned bright …
Folklore Concepts
Histories and Critiques
Av Dan Ben-Amos, Henry Glassie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1015 kr
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By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural …
Folklore Concepts
Histories and Critiques
Av Dan Ben-Amos, Henry Glassie m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural …
Folk Art
Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian
Av Henry Glassie, Pravina Shukla
Inbunden, 2023
468 kr
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Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence …
Passing the Time in Ballymenone
Häftad, 1995
389 kr
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"This is an extraordinary book." —Progress in Human Geography". . . fresh and fascinating." —Come-All-Ye" . . . an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. . . . it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's breath of the people of Ballymenone. . . . It is certainly a …
Potter's Art
Häftad, 2000
153 kr
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"Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations—relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, between utility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions of value. Is nature favored, or culture? Are individual needs or social …
All Silver and No Brass
An Irish Christmas Mumming
Inbunden, 1983
459 kr
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Irish Christmas mumming, the subject of this carefully researched and beautifully written book, is approached in Part I through the recollections of four old people of the hamlet of Ballymenone who recall the mumming from their youth. In Part II, the author examines the form and function of the …
Prince Twins Seven-Seven
His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America
Inbunden, 2010
647 kr
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Prince Twins Seven-Seven (1944-2011) was not only one of Africa's most famous contemporary artists and the leader of the Osogbo School of Nigerian artists, he was known as the modern master of the Yoruba tradition in art. His work has been exhibited on every continent, is collected by major museums …
Irish Folk Tales
E-bok, 2012
162 kr
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Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild …
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
Häftad, 1971
387 kr
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What is folk culture? What distinguishes true folk creations from the cultural hybrids of commerce and popular innovation? To clarify this muddled situation and to provide clear standards and visual examples for the study and appreciation of a broad range of objects, Henry Glassie has written this …
Irish Folk History
Tales from the North
Häftad, 1982
341 kr
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Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of …
Irish Folk History
Tales from the North
E-bok, 2017
437 kr
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Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people''s own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone , tell of the coming of …
Folk Housing Middle Virginia
Structural Analysis Historic Artifacts
Häftad, 1976
280 kr
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In this fascinating analysis of eighteenth-century vernacular houses of Middle Virginia, Henry Glassie presents a revolutionary and carefully constructed methodology for looking at houses and interpreting from them the people who built and used them. Glassie believes that all relevant historical …
