African Folktales / Paul Radin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radin, Paul, 1883-1959, comp.

Contributor:

Radin, Paul, editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1730

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--Africa.

Tales.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Note to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Prologue

I. The Universe and Its Beginnings

II. The Animal and His World

III. The Realm of Man

IV. Man and His Fate

Epilogue

Sources of the Folktales

Glossary

Index

Notes:

"Extracted from African folktales and sculpture, Bollingen series XXXII, first published in 1952 and in a revised edition in 1964."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-64759-3

1-4008-7294-4

OCLC:

903442378