Transmission of kapsiki-higi folktales over two generations : tales that come, tales that go /

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Beek, Walter E. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Colección:African histories and modernities.
Temas:
Folklore > Africa.
Folklore > Nigeria.
Kamwe (African people)
Ethnology > Africa.
Cultural property.
Folklore > Afrique.
Kapsiki (Peuple d'Afrique)
Ethnologie > Afrique.
Social & cultural history.
Cultural studies.
African history.
HISTORY > Civilization.
HISTORY > Essays.
HISTORY > Reference.
HISTORY > Social History.
Cultural property
Ethnology
Folklore
Nigeria
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures; List of Tables; chapter 1: Tales at Two Times; An Anthropologist inẗheÈLand ofÈFolklore; Kapsiki Folktales over Two Generations; Performance; Modalities ofÈComparison; Notes; chapter 2: Grouping theÈTales; Squirrel Tales; Tales ofÖther Animals; Humans-Plus; Just Humans; African Tales; Notes; chapter 3: The Tales, Old andÈNew; Trickster Tales: Squirrel asäḦero; Miscellaneous Animals; Death, Monsters andÈ'Things'; People Among Each Other; Notes; chapter 4: Tales That Went, Tales That Came; Numbers; Shifting Content; Notes; chapter 5: Remembering Folktales.
  • Theories ofÈTransmissionPermanent Structures; Dynamics ofÈTransmission; Notes; References; Index.

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