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Exploring the folk culture of Barbados through the medium of the folk tale.

Lewis, Linden

Exploring the folk culture of Barbados through the medium of the folk tale. - 1990

Defines folk culture as the culture of the common people, constituted by folk songs, dance, folk ways, folklore, folk beliefs and customs, folk medicine and generally by the folk expression of a people. Notes that folk tales, born of the hopes and fears, anxieties, aspirations and frustrations of a people, are popular media for explaining and understanding the complex material conditions of existence of the populace. At the kernel of the folk tale there is a moral.










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