Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi StoriesJamaica Anansi Stories is a collection of folklore by Martha Warren Beckwith. Having studied under famed ethnographer Franz Boas at Columbia University, Beckwith dedicated her career to recording and contextualizing the traditions of people from around the world. Specializing in Jamaican, Hawaiian, Sioux, and Mandan Hidatsa cultures, Beckwith published widely acclaimed works of folklore and ethnography through her interviews with native storytellers

Contributors: Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd

and the role of religion in American life

brought the folk performing arts into the national cultural spotlight

eager to exchange her virginity for an elegant new wardrobe

She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family

a regular weekly newspaper column

Arsat tells Tuan stories of his past as he wrestles with the reality of his lover’s soon-to-be death

This new edition includes an introduction by Burroughs biographer Edward Renehan and an additional work not included in previous editions

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A Journey into the Zohar opens the mysterious

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