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	HAROLD COURLANDER PAPERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Harold Courlander Papers contain material written for five non-fiction works of collected folk tales from Africa, Haiti, Indonesia, and the United States, as well as a work of fiction based on Ethiopian folklore.
		Harold Courlander was born in Indianapolis in 1908 but moved to Detroit when he was six.
		Courlander gathered these legends directly from Hopi storytellers, but noted that tales varied depending on how each Hopi tribe told it.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0227b.html (1562 words)

	Journey of the Grey Fox People by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0826328148 And Thessalonians by Frederick Fyvie Bruce, ISBN ...
		The history of an Indian people is as much private property as a personal biography is, and Courlander has deferred to that privacy by inventing a desert people loosely based on the Hopi, and then following one invented clan, the Grey Fox People.
		Courlander has written a fine portrayal of a great, good people.
		These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.
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	Powell's Books - Treasury of African Folklore (2ND 96 Edition) by Harold Courlander
		In A Treasury of African Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of lore, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, historical chronicles, and poetry from widespread regions of the African continent.
		Courlander, one of the leading specialists in African and Afro-American life, explores the unwritten literature of the Sudan, the West Coast, the Bantu regions, the eastern grasslands, and the northeastern Horn, taking note of the diversity in history, origin myths, and tales of the Hausa, Kanuri, Ashanti, Zulu, Mensa, and numerous other peoples.
		These collected works also reflect the widely differing cultures and traditions found in sub-Saharan Africa, the differing concepts of creation and existence, and the social values that have motivated these people in their pursuit of a meaningful life and an understanding of the physical and spiritual attributes of the world around them.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio/1569245363 (190 words)

	Harold Courlander Biography / Biography of Harold Courlander Main Biography
		American folklorist Harold Courlander (1908-1996) was not a familiar name to most people during his lifetime.
		What connected the two stories, and the two men, was the court case that occurred when Courlander brought suit against Haley.
		Courlander claimed that plots in Haley's Roots were directly lifted from The African.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harold-courlander (245 words)

	Courlander, Harold -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Ross, Harold W. editor who founded and developed The New Yorker, a weekly magazine that from its birth in 1925 influenced American humour, fiction, and reportage.
		Harold Foster drew magnificent landscapes as backgrounds for his Prince Valiant comics.
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	Alibris: Harold Courlander
		Noted folklorist Harold Courlander spent two summers with the Hopi, learning their legends and stories.
		Courlander spotlights the varied oral traditions of the numerous fl cultures in the New World, including tales, songs, myths, and recollections that reflect the intermingling of African and European cultures.
		Before Alex Hailey's Roots there was Courlander's The African, which chronicles the experiences of a young African boy, Hwesuhunu, who is kidnapped from his homeland.
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	A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore by Harold Courlander, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1569245010
		In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles, and songs from the numerous Negro cultures of the New World.
		Courlander explores the unwritten traditions and literature of the Spanish, French, and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, the areas of Central and South America inhabited by people of African descent, the fl communities of the United States, and many others.
		With a focus on the interconnectedness of cultural inheritances throughout the Afro-American region as well as the local divergences, this remarkable collection demonstrates the powerful cultural influence of Africa on this side of the Atlantic.
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		A voice for the people : the life and work of Harold Courlander
		Subjects: Courlander, Harold, -- 1908- -- Juvenile literature.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: A Voice for the People: The Life and Work of Harold Courlander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While living in various parts of the world, he listened carefully, befriended the people he met, and asked questions about their music and stories.
		This biography includes stories, letters, and Courlander's own comments on his work, as well as photographs of his family and of the tellers and musicians from whom he learned.
		Young people may not think of Courlander for a biography assignment, but students interested in folklore, anthropology, and storytelling will find this volume informative and interesting.?Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805034447 (370 words)

	Textbooks by Harold Courlander - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harold Courlander - Marlowe & Company - 1569245363
		Harold Courlander - University of Massachusetts Press - 0870239295
		Harold Courlander - Henry Holth & Co (J) - 0805035117
	www.directtextbook.com /author/harold-courlander (248 words)

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		The Master of the Forge by Harold Courlander (1985)
		A Treasury of African Folklore by Harold Courlander...
		THE BORDEAUX NARRATIVE by Harold Courlander /HAITI /1st
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	COURLANDER HAROLD 1908 (in VSCCAT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Folk tales from West Africa, from The Cow-tail switch [sound recording] by Harold Courlander and George Herzog.
		The hat-shaking dance, and other Ashanti tales from Ghana / by Harold Courlander with Albert Kofi Prempeh ; illustrated by Enrico Arno.
		Hopi voices : recollections, traditions, and narratives of the Hopi Indians / recorded, transcribed, and annotated by Harold Courlander.
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	A Voice for the People: The Life and Work of Harold Courlander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Voice for the People: The Life and Work of Harold Courlander
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		A portrait of author and folklorist Harold Courlander describes his more than sixty years of traveling around the world, from Ethiopia to Haiti, meeting people and collecting their folktales and traditional lore.
	isbn.nu /0805034447 (359 words)

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		Today I received a call from Harold Courlander, certainly one of the most interesting...
		The Harold Courlander Papers contain material written for five...
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	Marketplace: Folklore
		A variety of stories, legends, and songs to be treasured by the reader.
		A study of urban legends from throughout the English-speaking world.
		Expertly translated tales transport the reader to a world filled with wonders from birds with feathers of gold, to helpful ghouls, to a groom generous enough to give his betrothed to her sweetheart.
	www.fables.org /marketplace/folktale.html (350 words)

	Negro Folk Music U.S.A. by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0486273504 And The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Negro Folk Music U.S.A. by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0486273504 And The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life by Alexandra Johnson, ISBN 0385478305
		Negro Folk Music U.S.A. by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0486273504
		The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life by Alexandra Johnson, ISBN 0385478305
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	BookHq: Treas of African Folklore by Harold Courlander ( 0517516705 )
		BookHq: Treas of African Folklore by Harold Courlander (0517516705)
		Made with superfine drawing paper & hand stitched with archival quality linen.
		The 10-digit ISBN# is typically found on the back of your book.
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	FOUND info about The HatShaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast Harold... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		The HatShaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast Harold...
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	The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0805002987 And Why Pick on Me by Louis ...
		The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0805002987 And Why Pick on Me by Louis Sachar, ISBN 0679819479
		The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander, ISBN 0805002987
		Why Pick on Me by Louis Sachar, ISBN 0679819479
	www.stiletech.net /westn.htm (154 words)

	Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes by Harold Courlander
		Included in the appendix are some Yoruba songs and tales known among African-Americans communites in the West Indies and Brazil.
		Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes by Harold Courlander isbn0942272404
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