Book description… “This book is a brief but thorough introduction to folklore from South Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The volume begins with an overview of the cultural background of South Asia, and examines different types of folklore and the difficulties of defining and classifying folklore genres. It then provides a substantial selection of legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other pieces of folklore from South Asia. This is […]
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Legends & other cultural tales
Folk Tales of Nepal (Book)
Edited by N. Sharma. South Asia Books; 1 edition (March 1996) My thoughts… I love how folk tales reveal their culture’s wisdom and humor. These are charming and well written.
Read moreSteel Drivin’ Man
In 1993 I wrote a National Endowment for the Arts grant to produce a half-hour documentary about the John Henry legend and the small West Virginia town where it took root. Dad was the one who told me about Talcott, reputed to be the site of the legendary race with the steel drill. He and I visited a couple times, climbing down to the railroad tracks and hacking our way through dense and prickly undergrowth […]
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When I first started learning about Web development, getting an image to line up on an html page was a major coup, and an animated gif was the ultimate in cool — only truly appreciated the high-tech few who were lucky enough to have a color monitor: one of those big ones, the size of a box of Rice-A-Roni. I started to make weekly trips from my house in Sierra foothills to San Francisco where […]
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