Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland (Social and Economic Studies, 88) - Softcover

Rieti, Barbara

 
9781894725804: Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland (Social and Economic Studies, 88)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1894725808 ISBN 13: 9781894725804
Verlag: Memorial University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Fairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form of people or animals, or they may have no form at all, as when a person walking in the woods is "led astray" by some irresistible force. This variability in fairies is matched by the diversity of human attitudes about them.

Barbara Rieti's study began in 1983 when she met a young man who told her that he had been followed by the fairies. Subsequent research drew on the hundreds of archival accounts of fairies and on Dr. Rieti's own fieldwork on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. Rieti describes the specific contexts in which fairy experiences are recounted and the manner in which they are told, keeping the storytellers at centre stage. She also highlights themes such as connections between fairies and nature, and the relationships between fairies and people. Comparative material sets the subject in historical and international context and demonstrates the remarkable tenacity of these old yet persistent tales.

The fairies may be going, but they are not gone yet. The stories still to be heard offer a window on everyday folklife, as well as on an extraordinary world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Rieti has an MA in Folklore from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University. In addition to Strange Terrain, she is the author of Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells (McGill-Queen's, 2008). During this research, she raised John Rieti-Lovelace, now a producer at CBC. Following these projects, she came to prefer drawing to writing. After weathering thirty-four years in St. John's, she moved to Victoria, BC with Martin Lovelace and their cats.

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Verlag
Memorial University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1894725808
ISBN 13 
9781894725804
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
372
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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