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Suriname folk-lore / by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits. With transcriptions of Suriname songs and musicological analysis by M. Kolinski.
LIBRA F2420 .H4 1969
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963.
- Herskovits, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro), 1897-1972, author.
- Kolinski, Mieczyslaw, author.
- Series:
- Columbia University contributions to anthropology ; v. 27.
- Columbia University contributions to anthropology, v. 27.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Suriname.
- Folklore.
- Suriname.
- Black people--Suriname.
- Black people.
- Black people--Suriname--Folklore.
- Music--Suriname.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 766 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : AMS Press, [1969]
- Contents:
- Notes on the culture of the Paramaribo Negro.
- Stories, riddles, proverbs, and dreams.
- Music.
- Appendices.
- Bibliography (p. [761]-766).
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1936 ed.
- Includes unacc. melodies, principally with words. Part of text in Negro-English with English translation.
- OCLC:
- 26176
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