The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years.

A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

The short; cryptic prophecies of St. Malachy; the Primate of Ireland; made circa 1140 while on a visit at Rome; about each Pope from his time till the End of Time--all based on visions he had at the time.

"... a major addition to the literature on oral traditions.

This book presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most powerful and least understood social groups.

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference, Symbolic Dynamics and its Applications, held at Yale University in the summer of 1991 in honour of Roy L. Adler on his sixtieth birthday.