Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postco...

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Autor principal:	Haring, Lee
Format:	Online
Idioma:	anglès
Publicat:	Open Book Publishers 2023
Matèries:	oral narrators;literary skills;versatility;small African island;French ethnographer;interview;1970s-80s;ancient values;preservation;postcolonial world;island of Mayotte thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTD Oral history
Accés en línia:	OCN: 1392077571
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