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Author : Mellonee Victoria Burnim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Songs in Mende Folktales written by Mellonee Victoria Burnim and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135034699
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65 written by Kenneth Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, these titles explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at administrators and academics, these studies are central to Development Studies, and also present the work of renowned anthropologists such as Raymond Firth.
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948720
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Francis Ngaboh-Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mende Story Telling written by Francis Ngaboh-Smart and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110803097
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Folklore in the Modern World written by Richard M. Dorson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Author : D. Dalby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113626664X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book African Language Review written by D. Dalby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems.
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The Subject Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Ben-Amos
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore in Context written by Dan Ben-Amos and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300048612
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Radiance from the Waters written by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.
Author : Donald Cosentino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521241977
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers written by Donald Cosentino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he collected them in dramatic performance on the verandahs and around the cooking fires of a Mende village. The domei is told to please, and Dr Cosentino details the various elements that constitute the pleasure of an oral performance. But beneath the surface glitter of these ironic, horrifying, bawdy and haunting narrative performances, there is an intellectual hardness of argument and debate which shines through the domeisia included here. Dominating these performances, and emblematic of the entire artistic tradition, are the 'everywoman' figure of the Defiant Maid, Yombo, and the 'everyman' Stubborn Farmer, Kpana.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924708
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Oral Literature in Africa written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forms of Folklore in Africa written by Bernth Lindfors and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874834611
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Tuck-me-in Tales written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by august house. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents five folktales for young children, including "Snow Bunting's Lullaby" from Siberia, "Chin Chin Kobokama" from Japan, "The Playground of the Sun and Moon" from Argentina, and "Counting Sheep" from the British Isles.
Author : Charles W. Joyner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013058
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Down by the Riverside written by Charles W. Joyner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-creates the daily life of the slaves. What they wore and ate, how they celebrated and mourned, the culture they created.
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Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1774 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Africa [3 volumes] written by Toyin Falola and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples. Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples. While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.
Author : Eustace Palmer
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Knowledge is More Than Mere Words written by Eustace Palmer and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merran McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315297809
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Peoples of Sierra Leone written by Merran McCulloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
