African FolkloreAn eminent folklorist here presents a rich repository of materials on the theory and practice of folklore studies in Africa. The volume opens with an extended essay by Richard M. Dorson, "Africa and the Folklorist," in which he indicates the potentialities for investigating African cultures through the concepts of folklore. The second part of the volume consists of sixteen papers from the African Folklore Conference. These papers are exhaustive treatments of specific aspects of African culture that make fascinating reading. They deal with such topics as African folktales, myth, epic songs, proverbs, tongue-twisters, story tellers, folk drama, and drug visions. Also fascinating are the texts of African folktales that make up the third section of this book. These were tape-recorded in the field by contributors and include texts from the Sudan, Liberia, Ghana, Mali, Cameroun, Gabon, and South Africa. -- From publisher's description. |
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Philip A Noss Description in Gbaya Literary | 73 |
Dan BenAmos Two Benin Storytellers | 103 |
Harold Scheub The Art of Nongenile Mazith | 115 |
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