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9780606013185, titled "Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories" | Demco Media, June 1, 1987, cover price $22.30 | also contains The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories | About this edition: Humorous and ironical folk tales revealing the customs and thought of the West Africans
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9781435201804, titled "Cow-tail Switch and Other West African Stories" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $21.95 | also contains The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories | About this edition: Humorous and ironical folk tales revealing the customs and thought of the West Africans
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9781933147062 | Great Books Foundation, June 30, 2006, cover price $16.95
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9781569245019 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, December 30, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Highlights the diverse oral traditions of the African American cultures of the New World.
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9780826328144 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: First published in 1977 under the title The Mesa of Flowers, this anthropological novel evokes the Southwest as it was five centuries ago.
A comprehensive anthology of myths, legends, epics, tales, poems, and other unwritten literary forms of the peoples of the Sudan, the Guinea Coast, Central Africa, the eastern grasslands, southern Africa, and the northeastern Horn
Hardcover:
9780517516706 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A comprehensive anthology of myths, legends, epics, tales, poems, and other unwritten literary forms of the peoples of the Sudan, the Guinea Coast, Central Africa, the eastern grasslands, southern Africa, and the northeastern Horn
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9781569245361 | 3rd edition (Marlowe & Co, February 1, 2002), cover price $16.95
9781569248164 | Marlowe & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of works which capture the oral heritage of the peoples of Africa, including the Hause, Kanuri, Ashanti, Mbundu, Zulu, Hottentot, and Mensa tribes
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9780805035124, titled "The Tiger's Whisker, and Other Tales from Asia and the Pacific" | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Thirty-one folk tales from Asia, the Middle East, and islands in the Pacific with a section of notes on each story at the end of the book
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9780785779100 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.25 | About this edition: Thirty-one folk tales from Asia, the Middle East, and islands in the Pacific with a section of notes on each story at the end of the book.
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9781569247891 | Marlowe & Co, October 1, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Novelist and student of African oral literature Courlander tells the tale of Numukeba, a blacksmith who abandons his forge to seek honor and nobility as a soldier of fortune.
Hardcover:
9780765197337, titled "A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings, and Humor of Peoples of African Descent in" | Smithmark Pub, July 1, 1996, cover price $10.98 | About this edition: Highlights the diverse oral traditions of the African American cultures of the New World
9780788165603 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A compendium to the oral traditions of New World African communities captures their tales, beliefs, songs, religious epics, and dialect and features dozens of musical scores and appendixes that explain the finer points of African-American tradition.
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9781569248119, titled "A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings, and Humor of Peoples of African Descent in" | Marlowe & Co, February 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Highlights the diverse oral traditions of the African American cultures of the New World.
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9780805035117 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of seventeen tales reflects the philosophy and traditional way of life of the Hopi Indians
Reinforced:
9780606102827 | Demco Media, April 1, 1996, cover price $17.83 | About this edition: A collection of seventeen tales reflects the philosophy and traditional way of life of the Hopi Indians
Reinforced:
9780606099622 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.94 | About this edition: Thirty-one folk tales from Asia, the Middle East, and islands in the Pacific with a section of notes on each story at the end of the book
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9780517500637 | Crown Pub, March 1, 1973, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An anthology of stories complemented by songs illuminates the beliefs and attitudes of the Yoruba people regarding the importance and power of gods and heroes
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9780942272406, titled "Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes" | Original Pubns, September 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A fascinating collection of the oral literature of an ancient people.
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9780805036527 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1995, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A compilation of favorite folktales exhibiting wisdom and experience
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9780870239298 | Reprint edition (Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $21.95
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9780805030006 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The tale of an African boy who is captured from his tribe and sold in America as a slave
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9780486273501 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, December 4, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Among the first and finest studies of African-American folk music, this book focuses primarily on the origins and musical qualities of typical genres ranging from simple cries and calls to anthems and spirituals, ballads and the blues.
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9780517532447 | Outlet, September 1, 1978, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: From the Jacket Flap: "'Big Falling Snow' is the story of the Hopi Indians of Northern Arizona and the Tewas who joined them early in the eighteenth century to help defend the villages against marauding tribes.
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9780826306241 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Just as the title states, this is a personal and cultural look at a Tewa-Hopi Indian's life in relation to the history, religion, and traditions of two tribes.
Hardcover:
9780826309150 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved.
Hardcover:
9780517523483 | Crown Pub, January 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Descriptions of cult life, tales of heroes, scoundrels, and adventurers, accounts of historical happenings, and other selections reveal the orally transmitted lore and traditions of Negro cultures in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South America
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9780911976007 | Inst for Cross Cultural Res, October 1, 1987, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Book by Courlander, Harold
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9780826310118 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $19.95
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9780520054493 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1986), cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780517558072 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1985, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: Numukeba, a blacksmith from the Niger River kingdom of Joliba, readies himself to become a warrior-hero and struggles to uncover the meaning of fate, honor, and nobility in this mythical tale of African magic
Hardcover:
9780698205369 | Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Tales and legends from the Ashanti, Mensa, Swahili, Zulu, and other African tribes tell stories about friendship, sacrifice, thoughtlessness, bravery, and death
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780804511063 | Spoken Arts, June 1, 1980, cover price $10.95
Hardcover:
9780517506806 | Reissue edition (Crown Pub, August 1, 1977), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The tale of an African boy who is captured from his tribe and sold in America as a slave
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