Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia

  With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public.   This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group.   Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.

Politics & Social Sciences

Abrahams, Roger D.

Social Sciences

Walter de Gruyter, Inc.

Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework

Cohen, Yehudi A.

<p>Book by Safa, Helen Icken, Du Toit, Brian M.</p>

Migration and Development: Implications for Ethnic Identity and Political Conflict (World Anthropology)

Du Toit, Brian M.

Safa, Helen Icken

International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 9th, Chicago, 1973

Sociology

Great Issues of International Politics: The International System and National Policy

Kaplan, Morton A.

Politics & Government

This is the first book-length work to reflect the recent trend in social psychology away from artificial laboratory test results. It focuses directly on the detailed, concrete elements of social behavior as they are observed in a real-life setting.Michael Argyle's approach here differs from that more generally taken in two respects. First, he discusses human interaction in terms of the basic elements of behavior-bodily and facial movements, gestures, eye-movements, facial expression, proximity, and orientation, the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication.Second, he has drawn on research in such varied areas as psychiatry, anthropology, linguistics, ethology, developmental and organizational psychology, as well as on his own extensive experimental studies. Particular emphasis is given to the biological roots of interaction, and to its cultural setting.Social Interaction demonstrates a strong awareness of the current theories of social psychology, while restricting itself in exposition to the observable aspects of human interaction. The result is a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to social interaction. This is primarily a textbook for students of social psychology, but it covers a field that is of central importance for all students of the social and biological sciences.

Social Interaction

Self-Help

Argyle M

Relationships

Biofeedback and Self-Control 1976-1977: An Aldine Annual on the Regulation of Bodily Processes and Consciousness

<p>Among other revolutionary developments of today's world is the so-called "knowledge explosion." So much is being written so fast about so many things that it is becoming well nigh irretrievable. One consequently can never be sure that he knows what there is to know about many kinds of phenomena or types of problems existing in the modern world due to the chance that something exists in written form that simply cannot be found, so bulky is the load of literature. The common idea that only the sick child, and never the well, needs special emotional support and help from the adult is simply an error. For the well child is not immune from pile-ups of severe emotional intensity when overwhelmed by confusion and conflicts from within. Certainly the normal kid can be expected to handle such crises either from within of without better than his sick peer on the average, but that does not mean always; and the critical issue for the well child is: is he ready at the time they hit? If not, he needs, quite unmistakably, emotional first aid from the adult-parent, teacher, camp counselor (or what have you)-who is in charge of his life at that moment. The reader will find that what the authors describe in The Other 23 Hours as the everyday requirement diet, as far as child handling is concerned for their disturbed children, is transferable to the normal crises of normal childhood.</p>

The Other 23 Hours: Child-Care Work With Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Milieu

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Larry K. Brendtro

Albert E. Trieschman

James K. Whittaker

Psychology & Counseling

Early Child Care: The New Perspectives

Caroline Chandler

Ego Psychology and Communication: Theory for the Interview

Polansky, Norman A

Psychotherapy and Behavior Change.

Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co.Rc480

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