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• ISBN: 0252030559 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780252030550 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0252072979 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780252072970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xii, 213 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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1. Vi (Taq šeblu) Hilbert: Tradition as responsibility : Mud Hen builds a nest (an Upper Skagit folktale) ; Lady Louse (an Upper Skagit folktale) -- 2. Rinjing Dorje: Tibetan tradition : The soup (a personal story) ; Uncle Tompa gets a momo (a trickster tale) ; Hot momo! (a family story) ; Uncle Tompa works as a porter (a trickster tale) ; Eating the poison ; Moving the big rock -- 3. Roberto Carlos Ramos: The power of words : The monster Maraimbai (Brazilian folktale) ; Cabra Cabrez (Brazilian folktale) -- 4. Phra Inta Kaweewong: Preserving stories in the wat : The three friends (a Buddhist teaching tale) ; The king who made dreams come true (Isaan folktale adapted for sermon) -- 5. Makia Malo: Standing in front of them : The guava man (prose poem, Papakolea) ; The first time I killed a chicken (personal story, Kalaupapa) -- 6. Won-Ldy Paye: A "play person" : The dancing boogey-men (a Liberian Anansi story) -- 7. Léonard Sam: I try to tell it like my grandfather : The flying fox (A Kanak grandparent's tale) -- 8. Lela Kiana Oman: They are preserved : Mouse, mouse (an Eskimo folktale) ; Little Chickadee (an Eskimo folktale [within interview]) ; Achuqli (an Eskimo folktale) -- 9. Peter Pipim: Fill it up with a song : Why ants carry bundles of things that are bigger than themselves (Asante folktale) -- 10. Curtis DuPuis: A family tradition : Mosquitoes (Chehalis tale, Hazel Pete family) ; Coyote and the field mice (Chehalis tale, Hazel Pete family) -- 11. Why do they tell? -- 12. How traditional are these tellers?

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