Not Just Childâ??s Play : Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McMahon, Felicia R., 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Refugees.
Didinga (African people)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Refugies > New York (État) > Syracuse.
Refugies > Soudan.
Didinga (Peuple d'Afrique) > New York (État) > Syracuse > Conditions sociales.
Didinga (Peuple d'Afrique) > New York (État) > Syracuse > Folklore.
Refugees > New York (State) > Syracuse.
Refugees > Sudan.
Didinga (African people) > New York (State) > Syracuse > Social conditions.
Didinga (African people) > New York (State) > Syracuse > Folklore.
Sudan.
New York (State) > Syracuse.
Syracuse (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Sudan > Social conditions.
Sudan > Folklore.
Folklore.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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