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Exploring the folk culture of Barbados through the medium of the folk tale. (Record no. 44270)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lewis, Linden
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Exploring the folk culture of Barbados through the medium of the folk tale.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1990
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
583 ## - ACTION NOTE
Time/date of action 3/7/00
Action agent M2LMGR
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Analytic

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