Peace tales : world folktales to talk about, [compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

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Peace tales : world folktales to talk about, [compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

Title remainder

world folktales to talk about

Statement of responsibility

[compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

Instantiates

• Peace tales : world folktales to talk about

Publication

• Little Rock, Ark., August House, 2005

Note

Originally published by Linnet Books in 1992

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-112) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Choices : prologue -- The gates of paradise : a Zen tale -- 1. War -- Pathways to war -- Two goats on the bridge (stubbornness) : a tale from Russia -- The neighbor's shifty son (suspicion) : a tale from China -- A Dervish hosts the Mullah (fear) : a Sufi tale -- Reaching for the moon (following an unwise leader) : a tale from Tibet -- Strength (acting in anger) : a Limba tale from West Africa -- Not our problem (escalaltion) : a tale from Burma and Thailand -- A man with no brain (the glory of war) : a tale from Algeria -- The weapon (a weapon beyond control) : a Kathlamet tale from the Pacific Northwest -- The folly of fighting : three fables -- The Ass's shadow : an Aesop fable -- The Snipe and the mussel : a tale from China -- Fighting leads to losses : a tale from India -- One war -- How the short-ears conquered the long-ears : an historical legend from Polynesia -- An end to war -- The war between the sandpipers and the whales (total devastation) : a tale from the Marshall Islands -- The black hound (a fear greater than war) : a tale from India -- 2. Peace -- Pathways to peace -- Two goats on the bridge (cooperation) : a tale from Eastern Europe -- How friendship began among birds (understanding) : a tale from Burma -- The lion's whisker (patience) : a Somali tale from Ethiopia-- Temper (control of temper) : a Zen tale -- The advice of Hatim al-Asamm (identifying with your opponent) : a Sufi anecdote -- Music to soothe the savage breast (understanding through the arts) : an historical legend from Japan -- Slops (consideration) : a tale from Wales -- Nansen cuts the cat in two (intervention) : a Zen tale -- A lesson for kings (repaying evil with kindness) : a Jataka tale from India -- Heaven and hell (helping one another) : a tale from China -- A blind man catches a bird (righting a wrong) : a Ndebele tale from Zimbabwe -- Old Joe and the carpenter (building bridges): a tale from the United States -- Two foxes (agreeing to get along) : a tale from Appalachia -- Lifting the sky : a Skagit tale from the Pacific Northwest -- Peacemaking techniques -- 1. Halving the cookie : American folk advice -- 2. The argument sticks : an Iroquois tale -- 3. Looking your enemy in the eye : an American family custom -- Peacemakers -- Buddha prevents a war : a tale from India -- The battle (turning conflict into debate) : a Coyote story by a Native American writer -- The Rose Prince (choosing peace) : a tale from Romania -- The never-ending work -- A legend of Avalokitesvara :a tale from India -- Choices : epilogue -- Holding up the sky : a tale from China

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1905032

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

xi, 116 pages

Isbn

9780874837834

Lccn

92008994

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

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• n

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u1905032

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• (Sirsi) i9780874837834
• (OCoLC)61452150