Kamba Folklore

Kamba Folklore PDF Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Category : Kamba (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Kamba Folklore

Kamba Folklore PDF Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Category : Kamba (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Kamba Folklore ... with Liguistic, Ethnographical and Comparative Notes

Kamba Folklore ... with Liguistic, Ethnographical and Comparative Notes PDF Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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East African Folktales

East African Folktales PDF Author: Vincent Mũli wa Kĩtukũ
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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A bilingual collection of 18 folktales or short fables in English and Kikamba from the Kamba Community in Kenya.

African Folklore

African Folklore PDF Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948720
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1509

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Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.

African Folktales

African Folktales PDF Author: Paul Radin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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A representative collection of eighty-one myths and folktales chosen from the oral tradition of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island PDF Author: Lee Haring
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805110071
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.

Myths and Legends of the Bantu

Myths and Legends of the Bantu PDF Author: Alice Werner
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714617350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Folktales of Egypt

Folktales of Egypt PDF Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226206238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History

Folklore

Folklore PDF Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.

Akamba Stories

Akamba Stories PDF Author: John S. Mbiti
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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