The Oxford Companion To Australian Folklore

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition

Description: 381 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Folklore offers invaluable insights into a countrys character, and Australias sense of nationality owes much to the slang, stories, artifacts, and games handed down by its people since the earliest times. Written by a team of authorities, this comprehensive guide to Australian folklore includes full-length articles on the construction and interpretation of a folk heritage. It also covers such topics as the Australia Legend, Koori languages, ANZAC Day, country music, Greek shadow puppetry, patchwork quilts, and gum leaf playing, and myths and heroes like Ned Kelly, Henry Lawson, Percy Grainger, "The Wild Colonial Boy," and "The Dog on the Tucker Box."

ISBN: 9780195530575