African folklore / [compiled by] Richard M. Dorson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981, compiler.

Contributor:

Anchor Books, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Africa--Congresses.

Folklore.

Tales--Africa--History and criticism--Congresses.

Tales.

Manners and customs.

Africa--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Congresses.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (bookplate) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 587 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 1972.

Contents:

Part I. Africa and the folklorist / R.M. Dorson

Part II. Papers of the African Folklore Conference

Description in Gbaya literary art / Philip A. Noss

Two Benin storytellers / Dan Ben-Amos

The art of Nongenile Mazithathu Zenani, a Gcaleka Ntsomi performer / Harold Scheub

African dilemma tales : an introduction / William Bascom

Afro-Arab relations in the Sudanese folktale / Sayyid Hamid Hurreiz

A characteristic African folktale pattern / Lee Haring

The language of the proverb in Akan / L.A. Boadi

The proverb in modern written Swahili literature : an aid to proverb elicitation / Carol M. Eastman

Yoruba tongue twisters / Ayodele Ogundipe

Critical approaches to folklore in African literature / Bernth Lindfors

Wala oral history and Wa's social realities / Mona Fikry-Atallah

The epic as a genre in Congo oral literature / Daniel Biebuyck

Heroic songs of the Mande hunters / Charles Bird

Metaphor and symbolism in the heroic poetry of Southern Africa / Daniel P. Kunene

Folklore and the Yoruba drama : Ọbàtálá as a case study / Joel Adedeji

Equatorial excursions : the folklore of narcotic-inspired visions in an African religious movement / James W. Fernandez

Part III. Texts of African folklore

The Sudan : Manasir and Jaʻaliyyin tales / collected by Sayyid Hurreiz

Liberia : Vai tales / collected by Jangaba Johnson and Bai T. Moore

Ghana : Tales collected from the Wala of Wa / by Mona Fikry-Atallah

Mali : Bambara oral prose and verse narratives / collected by Charles Bird

Cameroun : Gbaya tales / collected by Philip A. Noss

Gabon : Fang visions / collected by James W. Fernandez

South Africa : A Xhosa narrative / collected by Harold Scheub.

Notes:

Part II contains papers originally presented at a conference on African folklore, held July 16-18, 1970, Folklore Institute, Indiana University.

"Copyright ©1972 by Richard M. Dorson"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-1981. African folklore.

OCLC:

515959