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• Introduction: The Unsettlement of the World
• Emergent Amerasia: India Beyond the Ganges
• What Did the Term New World Mean?
• Amerasian Magi
• Raphael's Global Philosophy
• Utopia at the Extremes of the Earth
• Columbus Meets Polo, or the Logic of Elliptical Continuity
• The Revelation of the Earth: Parmigianino's Madonna of the Earthly Globe
• Copper Bells: The Search for Asia North of Mexico
• The Swelling Earth: French Navigations in the Amerasian Imaginary
• English Reflections of Amerasia
• Moctezuma the Great Khan and Tenochtitlan as Hangzhou: Caspar Vopel's Global Vision
• India as a Semantic Field
• The Biblical New World
• Amerasian Hieroglyphics
• Figuring the World I: The New World of Print
• Figuring the World II: The World in Its Parts
• Nacreous Amerasia: The Impact of the Manila Galleon
• Epilogue: Passages to India
• Amerasia Resurfaces
• Afterword: Chinese Catographers Map the World.

"This book explores the many ways in which European artists, writers, and cartographers described and represented an Amerasian continuum in the first two centuries after Columbus"-- Provided by publisher.

• Tricksters : The legend of Paihe Otuu ; The art of netting learned by Kahukura from the fairies ; The two sorcerers ; The legend of Rata : his adventures with the enchanted tree and revenge of his father's murder
• Creatures of earth and sea : The great battle between the fish tribes and man ; how fish got their peculiar forms ; The shark-man, Nanaue ; The story of Pili and Sina ; The legend of Ruanui
• Life and death : Ahuula: a legend of Kanikaniaula and the first feather cloak ; Kalelealuaka ; The origin of the name of punaauia ; Kaala, the flower of Lanai: a story of the spouting cave of Palikaholo
• Family : Tigilau ; The story of the Earth ; Tunohopu's cave: a tale of old Rotorua.

"A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits. The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. Explore the enchanting folklore of the Polynesian islands. In these traditional stories, the borders blur between life and death, reality and magic, and land and sea. You'll encounter awe-inspiring warriors, tricky magicians, and fearsome creatures of the deep. Each tale is paired with evocative contemporary art in this special illustrated edition"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / Jeremy A. Greene
• Introduction : disease, healing, and medicine in indigenous highlands
• 1. Hookworm, histories, and health : indigenous healing, state building, and Rockefeller representatives
• 2. Curses and cures : empíricos, indigeneity, and scientific medicine
• 3. Engendering infant mortality and public health : midwifery, obstetrics, and ethnicity
• 4. "Malnourished, scrawny, emaciated Indios" : perceptions of indigeneity, illness, and healing
• 5. Infectious indígenas : the ethnicity of highland diseases
• 6. "Prisoners of malaria" : a lowland disease in the mountains
• Conclusion : indigeneity, racist thought, and modern medicine.

• Gezangen fun thom / fun P. Graubard
• Ganovim un ganeyve / fun Sh. Lehman
• Fun'm folḳs-moyl / fun Hershele
• Di ḳinder-ṿelṭ / fun Sh. Lehman
• Ṭreyfe'ne seḥoyre (Purim-shpil) / fun Sh. Lehman
• Di yudishe zshargonen / fun Y. Ṭriṿaḳs
• Der yudisher ṿorṭ-oytser / fun Sh. Shpigel
• Idioṭizmen / fun Y. Elzeṭ -- Yudishe ṿorṭ-forshung / fun N. Prilutsḳi

• געזאנגען פון תהום / פ. גראובארד
• גנבים און גנבה / פון ש. לעהמאן
• פונ'ם פאלקס-מויל / פון הערשעלע
• די קינדער-וועלט / פון ש. לעהמאן
• טרפה'נע סחורה (פורים-שפיל) / פון ש. לעהמאן
• די יודישע זשארגאנען / פון י. טריוואקס
• דער יודישער ווארט-אוצר / פון ש. שפיגעל
• אידיאטיזמען / י. עלזעט
• יודישע ווארט-פארשונג / פון נ. פרילוצקי

Compilation of Yiddish literature for children and general audiences, including songs, dramas, a Purim-shpiel, and short stories.

• The evil eye / A gammy suwn'r
• The bloody finger / Moillhas liba
• Twiggy woman / Bin shako a beoir
• Fairy love / Gra na griwog
• The comb / A rírk
• Whispers / Leskoi
• The boggy boots / An ladu guillimers
• Hungry grass / Crōlušk sirk
• The lantern / Granlum n'okol
• Whisht / Whisht.

• al-Juzʼ 1. Ḥikāyāt al-ḥayawān
• al-juzʼ 2. Ḥikāyāt al-insān.

• Acknowledgments Note from the editor and translator
• Introduction: Tracing the trickster in North African folktales
• 1. Family and Kinship
• Djeha and his son
• Djeha and the pot
• Djeha and the nail
• Djeha and the goat hide
• Djeha and his mother's shoes
• Djeha and the treasure
• The burial of Djeha's father
• Djeha marries a sultan's daughter
• Djeha and his wife
• Djeha and his burnous
• 2. Animal tales
• Djeha wants to buy a donkey
• Djeha and the rabbit sauce
• The raven
• Djeha and his donkey
• Djeha and the dog
• Djeha and the man who wants to borrow his donkey
• Djeha and the two oxen
• The high-strung horse
• The rent
• Djeha and the jackal
• 3. Faces, places, or daily life in the village
• Djeha and the miller
• Djeha and his friends at the hammam
• Djeha and the qadi
• Djeha and his Jewish neighbor
• Djeha and the local caid
• Djeha and the barber
• The watermelon
• Djeha and his watch
• Djeha, the field, and the old woman
• Djeha and his rope
• 4. Foodways
• Djeha and the chicken
• Djeha and the meat
• The roasted kid
• Djeha and the people who were eating
• Djeha and the bread
• Djeha and the owner of the pot
• Djeha and the Arab
• The turnips
• Djeha and the ewe's head
• The eggs
• 5. The intricacies of hospitality: beware of friends and foes
• Djeha and his friends
• Djeha and his guests
• Djeha and his two friends
• Djeha and the burglar
• Djeha at the feast
• Djeha feeds the students
• Djeha and the students
• Djeha and the thieves
• The hosts' pickax
• Djeha's hare
• 6. Religion, death, and the afterlife
• Djeha and the ten blind people
• Djeha and the Christian
• Djeha and the murder victim
• The Jew who wanted to see God
• Djeha and judgment day
• Djeha's knife kills and resuscitates
• Djeha in the grave
• Djeha and the sheep's head
• Eagle-eyed Djeha and his excellent marksmanship
• Djeha's death
• Appendix
• References
• Index.

"Djeha-also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations-is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior. Orientalists Auguste Moulie̹ras (1855-1931) and Rene̹ Basset (1855-1924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and translate popular Berber folktales. Today, trickster folktales from Algeria's mountainous Kabylia region are not well known in the Anglophone world, even though they continue to be highly popular in France and in North Africa. Djeha, the North African Trickster is an annotated, critical translation of Auguste Moulie̹ras's folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh'a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction in which Christa C. Jones discusses jocular literature in Islam, the widespread oral folktale tradition linked to Djeha and his Turkish twin brother Nasreddin Hoca, and the impact of colonialism on the gathering and dissemination of the tales. The trickster is at the center of six themed chapters: "Family and Kinship"; "Animal Tales"; "Faces, Places, or Daily Life in the Village"; "Foodways"; "The Intricacies of Hospitality: Beware of Friends and Foes!"; and "Religion, Death, and the Afterlife." Each chapter contains ten folktales preceded by a short introduction that contextualizes the pieces using historical, folkloristic, literary, and ethnographical sources. Ultimately, the book contributes to the preservation of an ancestral oral heritage, delivering this enduring character to new audiences"-- Provided by publisher.

"Esquisse de la didactisation des contes sociocommunautaires du Bénin est un document à visée enseignement/apprentissage des langue en général et celles du Bénin en particulier. Dans cette optique, les contes choisis sont des aires socioculturelles Savè, Aïzo, Otomari, Fon, Idaasha, Peulh, Baatonu, Biali, Dendi, Kotokoli, Lokpa et Xweda ... Ces contes révèlent des réalités et des fictions. Les formules introductives et de fin révèlent également la diversité culturelle dans la pratique langagière des contes du Bénin."--Pages 109-110

Tricks; history; tricksters; folklore.