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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... Perspective Lee Haring. Verbal Arts in Madagascar Performance in Historical Perspective Lee Haring upp University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series General Editor.
... Perspective Lee Haring. Verbal Arts in Madagascar Performance in Historical Perspective Lee Haring upp University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series General Editor.
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... Folklore Society . New series ( Unnumbered ) ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8122-3141-4 1. Folk Literature , Malagasy History and criticism . 2. Folklore - Madagascar— Performance . 3. Madagascar - Social life ...
... Folklore Society . New series ( Unnumbered ) ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8122-3141-4 1. Folk Literature , Malagasy History and criticism . 2. Folklore - Madagascar— Performance . 3. Madagascar - Social life ...
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... Folklore Society that has permitted publication . Grateful acknowledgment is extended to the Jour- nal of American Folklore , Fabula , and Acta Ethnographica for granting per- mission to reprint material published in earlier forms . I ...
... Folklore Society that has permitted publication . Grateful acknowledgment is extended to the Jour- nal of American Folklore , Fabula , and Acta Ethnographica for granting per- mission to reprint material published in earlier forms . I ...
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... folklore , ” in the ordinary sense of lies . A legend about a man - eating tree circulated in European popular periodicals eighty years ago ( Osborn 1924 : 8 ) . Farther back in time and with a better supply of facts , Madagascar ...
... folklore , ” in the ordinary sense of lies . A legend about a man - eating tree circulated in European popular periodicals eighty years ago ( Osborn 1924 : 8 ) . Farther back in time and with a better supply of facts , Madagascar ...
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... folklore.2 Malagasy Culture The principal fact of Madagascar's history is that the island has always been an arena for internal movement and external exploitation . But first , what is the name of the place ? The island which Marco Polo ...
... folklore.2 Malagasy Culture The principal fact of Madagascar's history is that the island has always been an arena for internal movement and external exploitation . But first , what is the name of the place ? The island which Marco Polo ...
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