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Egg polisher and other tales /
This collection represents, in substance and style, folk tradition in the North-West Region of Cameroon. Contained herein is a sampling of various human emotions, parental concerns, and societal conflicts: emotional insecurity, deceit, obstinacy, power and control, trickery, malevolence, greed, jeal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, Cameroon :
Langaa,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The cricket roaster
- Abanda, the village menace I (or how the bush fowl came to have red marks)
- The songbird and the hunter (or how a bird and a dog enriched a family)
- The tadpole fisher (or the woman who preferred tadpoles to her daughter)
- Abanda, the village menace II
- The egg polisher (or how a water buffalo lost her eggs and a chief his life)
- A wife's man
- The farmer and the apes
- Dibong, the jealous friend
- Revenge of the coaster (or how a witch took advantage of a helpless woman)
- The farmer and the cannibal
- The search for Mr. Handsome
- The tortoise and the chief (or how the tortoise gained respect as the most intelligent of animals)
- The uncooperative sons
- The farmer and the goat herder
- The cocoyam farmer who accepted payment in flesh.