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The Palgrave handbook of African oral traditions and folklore / Akintunde Akinyemi, Toyin Falola, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave handbooks
- PALGRAVE HANDBOOKS.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oral tradition--Africa.
- Oral tradition.
- Africa.
- Folklore--Africa.
- Folklore.
- Folk literature, African--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, African.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlix, 1026 pages) : illustrations (come color), maps (some color).
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Handbook of African oral traditions and folklore
- African oral traditions and folklore
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on African Oral Traditions and Folklore
- Part I. Contexts and Practicalities
- Chapter 2. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry
- Chapter 3. Concept and Components of Performance
- Chapter 4. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance
- Chapter 5. Orality, History, and Historical Reconstruction
- Chapter 6. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals
- Chapter 7. Fieldwork and Data Collection
- Chapter 8. Documenting Oral Genres
- Chapter 9. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Tradition and Folklore
- Part II. Themes, Tropes and Types. Chapter 10. Epic Tradition
- Chapter 11. Divination and Divinatory Systems
- Chapter 12. Myth and Mythology
- Chapter 13. The Dirge
- Chapter 14. Dreams within the Context of the Basotho Culture
- Chapter 15. Drum Language and Literature
- Chapter 16. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry
- Chapter 17. Proverbs, Naming, and other Forms of Veiled Speech
- Chapter 18. Oral Poetry: Monyonchos Orature and AbaGusii Culture of Non-violence
- Chapter 19. Ifa: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics
- Chapter 20. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences, etc.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030555177
- 3030555178
- Publisher Number:
- 99987126066
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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