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Verbal Arts in Madagascar : Performance in Historical Perspective / Lee Haring.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haring, Lee, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Publications of the American Folklore Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk literature, Malagasy--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Malagasy.
- Folklore--Madagascar--Performance.
- Folklore.
- Folklore--Performance--Madagascar.
- Folk literature, Malagasy--History and criticism--Madagascar.
- Folklore--Performance.
- Madagascar--Social life and customs.
- Madagascar.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p. )
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Malagasy Lore and Folk
- 2. Riddling: Question and Answer
- 3. Proverbs: Dialogue in Monologue
- 4. Proposition and Response: The Merina Hainteny
- 5. Marriage: Petition and Delivery
- 6. Funeral Oratory: Living and Dead
- Notes
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512816693
- 1512816698
- 9780585113630
- 0585113637
- OCLC:
- 979580180
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