Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical PerspectiveA history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory. |
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... Africa was the dark continent , at least some of it was colonized by the British , who wrote African history and ethnography in the English language . African folktales gained a read- ing public , partly by being published in Britain ...
... Africa was the dark continent , at least some of it was colonized by the British , who wrote African history and ethnography in the English language . African folktales gained a read- ing public , partly by being published in Britain ...
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... Africa to feel the cruption of a movement toward independence . A bloody rebellion against the French in 1947 turned ... Africans and Indonesians . In early times Madagascar was populated by several waves of settlers who started from ...
... Africa to feel the cruption of a movement toward independence . A bloody rebellion against the French in 1947 turned ... Africans and Indonesians . In early times Madagascar was populated by several waves of settlers who started from ...
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... African , and Arabo - Persian cultures attempted to exert politi- cal and cultural hegemony . Indonesia contributed ... Africa contributed drums and rattles , pottery , and the special importance of cattle all over the island ( Heseltine ...
... African , and Arabo - Persian cultures attempted to exert politi- cal and cultural hegemony . Indonesia contributed ... Africa contributed drums and rattles , pottery , and the special importance of cattle all over the island ( Heseltine ...
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... African or Indian shores even before arrival in the Great Island . They fostered a broad phenomenon of creolization . But this was a creolization of an original kind : in contrast to what happened in Réunion and Mauritius - sister ...
... African or Indian shores even before arrival in the Great Island . They fostered a broad phenomenon of creolization . But this was a creolization of an original kind : in contrast to what happened in Réunion and Mauritius - sister ...
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... African continent , so in Madagascar , “ anthropology did not receive the same sanction in territories of French colonization [ as in British ] . Nevertheless , some administrators were at the same time talented anthropologists who ...
... African continent , so in Madagascar , “ anthropology did not receive the same sanction in territories of French colonization [ as in British ] . Nevertheless , some administrators were at the same time talented anthropologists who ...
Contents
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Question and Answer | 34 |
Dialogue in Monologue | 63 |
The Merina Hainteny | 98 |
Petition and Delivery | 152 |
Living and Dead | 191 |
Notes | 215 |
Sources Consulted | 219 |
Index | 239 |
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African allusion ancestors Andrianampoinimerina answer Antananarivo Antemoro artistic language audience authoritative Bakhtin Beaujard Betsileo Betsimisaraka Bloch called Callet cattle Chapus collected contest creolization Dahle Dahle's Dandouau dead Decary deliverer dialect dialogue discourse Domenichini-Ramiaramanana Dundes European fanorona Ferrand fixed phrases Flavien Ranaivo folklorists folktales formal French funeral gasy genre Grandidier hainteny hearer hianao highland Houlder interaction izaho izany izay Jean Paulhan kabary kely king language linguistic Madagascar Malagasy culture Malagasy folklore Malagasy language Malagasy proverbs Malagasy Tale Index Malgache marriage marriage debate means Merina metaphor missionaries Mondain monologic mpikabary ohabolana olona oral oration oratory Paulhan performance person petitioner player poems poetic poetry proverbs question quotation quoted raha rano Rasamuel riddle riddler safidy Sakalava says Sibree situation social speaker speaking speech structure style stylized symbolic tahaka texts topic-comment tradition trans translated tsiny tsy mba Turn two-sided verbal art wife woman words