The Multicultural Dictionary of Proverbs
The Multicultural Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: Harold V. Cordry

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1476607354

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All cultures have proverbs that capsulize subjects simply and effectively. Many of these are cross-cultural. For example, according to a Danish proverb, "The greater the fear, the nearer the danger," while a Latin proverb says, "The less there is of fear, the less there is danger." This work includes over 20,000 proverbs from more than 120 languages, nationalities and ethnic groups. The proverbs are arranged under 1,300 headings (e.g., accidents, divided loyalty, marriage, prosperity, shame), and each includes the nationality, group or language in which it originated. Comprehensive keyword and subject indexes allow access to the material in multiple ways.

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet
Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Author: Mineke Schipper

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780300102499

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In this study the author analyses similarities, differences and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in proverbs she has found in oral and written sources from over 150 countries. Grouping the proverbs into categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth and the female power, the author examines shared patterns in ideas about women and how men see them.

African-American Proverbs in Context
African-American Proverbs in Context

Author: Anand Prahlad

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781604737691

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A groundbreaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present.

Early Writings on India
Early Writings on India

Author: H.K. Kaul

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1351867172

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This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.