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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... records of the Merina ( Elevated People ) living in the central highlands ' to give lively accounts of the contacts between Malagasy and Europeans in the nineteenth century . In addition to the work of 2 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
... records of the Merina ( Elevated People ) living in the central highlands ' to give lively accounts of the contacts between Malagasy and Europeans in the nineteenth century . In addition to the work of 2 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
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... give meaning to a half- understood saying ( Navone 1977 : 61 ) . This puzzle has resulted from an excessively narrow adherence to multiple existence as a criterion for folk- lore , as Ruth Finnegan points out for Africa . If one of the ...
... give meaning to a half- understood saying ( Navone 1977 : 61 ) . This puzzle has resulted from an excessively narrow adherence to multiple existence as a criterion for folk- lore , as Ruth Finnegan points out for Africa . If one of the ...
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... fell on cars prepared to give only Merina the victory in the battle over language . Yet many observers attested to differences among dialects and to a Malagasy capacity for switching between dialects and 20 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
... fell on cars prepared to give only Merina the victory in the battle over language . Yet many observers attested to differences among dialects and to a Malagasy capacity for switching between dialects and 20 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
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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