… ritualism in the Colombian Caribbean region. These … tales that List presents in this volume
are animal tales featuring Uncle Tiger and Uncle Rabbit, with a few exceptions. These tales …

… tales in order to appreciate the spirit of the Caribbean. In “Littérature orale et contes,” Martinican
ethnologist Ina Césaire stresses that Caribbean … that the tale indicates a new Caribbean …

… time to record some native tales as well, instead of contenting himself with making brief
summaries. It is a reasonable assumption that the Caribs did possess tales, myths, or legends of …

… to the collection of the tales, myths, and legends of various Caribbean islands. So have …
Many of the stories are characterized as “why” tales. And, such tales explain animal and …

… tales recorded both by Jekyll and by Martha Beckwith, Annancy's tricks of trapping naive
animals in a … The laughter accompanying a Caribbean Annancy story is rarely, if ever, innocent; …

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who
outsmarts stronger animals… , this volume shares summaries of 438 tales--some in danger of …

… genuine Caribbean extension of the tradition of exploring animal … Indian traditions of imagining
animal-human connections have … experience and have become part of Caribbean writing. …

… Caribbean Indians of the indentured diaspora brought these … in the Caribbean:" We in Trinidad
and the Caribbean should … The practices brought from India to the Caribbean were not fol…

… the island and thus ‘the spider tales established a kind of historical priority … tales originated
in West Africa among the Akan, these animal stories, folktales, and legends in the Caribbean …

… animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean … everyday life in rural societies, since
animals stand at the nexus of the … In Latin America, the animal is also an important symbolic …