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Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways in which the body can be conceptualized and experienced.

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Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways in which the body can be conceptualized and experienced.

(Hardback)

Through a historical survey and analyses of oral traditions like fairy tales, proverbs, and ballads, among others, that are still in vigorous practice in China today, this informative and stimulating book proposes a theoretical framework for interpreting how and why traditions continue or discontinue in any culture.

(Hardback)

By analyzing the history and current practice of two prewedding rituals commonly practiced by women in North-eastern Scotland, this book provides fresh insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.

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Using war memoirs, war journalism, and John Paul Walliss own experience as a Marine, PTSD and Folk Therapy analyzes how the everyday folklore shared in male military groups serves as a short-term aid in coping with the stress of living, working, and fighting in the combat zone.

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This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a superhero who fights against the Nazis, through national and international popular culture from the late 19^th through the late 20^th century

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This book tells the story of the battles that flared over Baltimores attempts to use hon to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.