The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey
Folklore offers invaluable insights into a country's character, and Australia's 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.
Graham Seal is Director at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute at Curtin University, Australia. He has published a number of articles and books on the culture of war, including Inventing the Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (2004) and Echoes of Anzac (2005). In 2007 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for his research and academic work. His These Few Lines: The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes was the joint winner of the National Biography Award in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195530575 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195530578 |
| Title | The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore |
| Author | Gwenda Beed Davey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Australia |
| Year published | 1993-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 398 |
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