Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro : African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal, author.

Series:

Anthropological horizons.

Anthropological Horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jie (African people)--Folklore.

Jie (African people).

Jie (African people)--Social life and customs.

Storytelling--Uganda--Kotido District.

Storytelling.

Ethnology--Uganda--Kotido District.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a “cradle land” in the plains of Turkana. In Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler shows how the poetic journey of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro and their metaphorical return during the Jie harvest rituals gives rise to stories, imagery, and the articulation of ethnic and individual identities.Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world. Mirzeler’s work contributes significantly to the anthropology of storytelling, the study of myth and memory, and the use of oral tradition in historical studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface And Acknowledgments

Maps

A Note On Languages And Personal Names

Introduction

Part One

1. Jie Past And Present: Ecology, Economy, Guns, And State

2. Ethnography Of Storytelling

Part Two

3. Patterns And Images Of Historical Tradition

4. The Jie Landscape, Memory, And Historical Tradition

5. Historical Tradition And Poetic Persuasion Of Pastness

Part Three

6. The Return Of Nayeche And The Gray Bull Engiro

7. A Jie Storyteller'S Autobiography: The Significance Of Nayeche And The Gray Bull Engiro Oral Tradition

Conclusion

Part Four

The Stories

Notes

Glossary Of Places And Selected Words

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-1744-6

1-4426-1743-8