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GEOGRAPHY / GEOGRAPHY AND WORLD CULTURES

Folktales and Africa Celebrating Life
Fairy Tales An Encyclopedia of Customs around

Traditions and Texts Culture and Society the World
from around the World 3 VOLUMES | TOYIN FALOLA AND From Baby Showers
DANIEL JEAN-JACQUES, EDITORS
Second Edition | 4 VOLUMES to Funerals
EDITED BY ANNE E. DUGGAN
AND DONALD HAASE, WITH 3 VOLUMES | VICTORIA WILLIAMS
HELEN J. CALLOW

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Choice
nothing remotely like it in Best Reference 2015 –Library Journal showcasing the diversity of birth,
coming-of-age, and death celebrations
English. . . . Libraries of all Highly recommended. All
sizes and types will want to “ libraries. All levels. worldwide.
add it. Essential. All readership ” FEATURES
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levels. —Choice, August 1, 2016 • Examines cultural events in the
—Choice, August 1, 2016 These volumes offer a one-stop resource general categories of birth and
childhood events, teen and early
for researching the lives, customs, and
Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one- adulthood milestones, and aging and
of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, cultures of Africa’s nations and peoples. death customs
scholars, and others who need reliable, • Offers primary and cultural document
up-to-date information on folk and fairy TOYIN FALOLA, PhD, is a university excerpts that are useful for the
tales, past and present. distinguished teaching professor and purposes of meeting Common Core
holder of the Jacob & Frances Sanger standards
Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the • Includes color inserts that help bring
ANNE E. DUGGAN is professor of University of Texas at Austin. the text to life
French and chair of the Department DANIEL JEAN-JACQUES is a graduate
of Classical and Modern Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne student at the University of Texas at VICTORIA WILLIAMS, PhD, is an
Austin, where he studies the history of
State University. independent writer and researcher
science in late colonial Nigeria. living in London, England. She is
DONALD HAASE is professor of
German and senior associate dean author of ABC-CLIO’s Weird Sports and
Wacky Games Around the World: From
in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences at Wayne State University. Buzkashi to Zorbing.

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