Not just child's play : emerging tradition and the lost boys of Sudan /

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Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the \"Lost Boys, \" a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan under tragic circumstances in the 1990s. With compelling insight, McMahon analyzes the oral traditions of the DiDinga Lost Boys, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McMahon, Felicia R., 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Didinga (African people) > New York (State) > Syracuse > Folklore.
Didinga (African people) > New York (State) > Syracuse > Social conditions.
Refugees > Sudan.
Refugees > New York (State) > Syracuse.
Didinga (Peuple d'Afrique) > New York (État) > Syracuse > Folklore.
Didinga (Peuple d'Afrique) > New York (État) > Syracuse > Conditions sociales.
Réfugiés > Soudan.
Réfugiés > New York (État) > Syracuse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Didinga (African people)
Refugees.
Social conditions.
Sudan > Folklore.
Sudan > Social conditions.
Syracuse (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (State) > Syracuse.
Sudan.
Folklore.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Men meet (but mountains do not)
  • Encountering ethnography
  • Surveying the landscape
  • Entextualization and kinesthetic communication
  • Memory, childhood, and restored behavior
  • Cultural intervention and mediation
  • Gendered performance
  • Conclusion: "I carried it in my heart."

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