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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... origins , under the expectation that the uniqueness of the island's language and culture would be explained if one knew their starting - point . An ab- sorption in origins caused some scholars , especially in the age of Charles Darwin ...
... origins , under the expectation that the uniqueness of the island's language and culture would be explained if one knew their starting - point . An ab- sorption in origins caused some scholars , especially in the age of Charles Darwin ...
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... origins and which is no mere assemblage of foreign influences . As these diverse traits came into contact in Madagascar , they were also iso- lated from their places of origin . No one traveled to Africa to check on how people there ...
... origins and which is no mere assemblage of foreign influences . As these diverse traits came into contact in Madagascar , they were also iso- lated from their places of origin . No one traveled to Africa to check on how people there ...
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... origin of their peoples — it could develop “ naturally ” ac- cording to the inherent tendencies of the societies and cultures involved , rather than following the foreign logic of a plantation economy . This brief chronicle produced the ...
... origin of their peoples — it could develop “ naturally ” ac- cording to the inherent tendencies of the societies and cultures involved , rather than following the foreign logic of a plantation economy . This brief chronicle produced the ...
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... origin of the different tribes . " Essential , therefore , to the LMS conception of folklore was that it represented a set of survivals : " phenomena originat- ing under a set of causal conditions of a former era perpetuate [ d ] them ...
... origin of the different tribes . " Essential , therefore , to the LMS conception of folklore was that it represented a set of survivals : " phenomena originat- ing under a set of causal conditions of a former era perpetuate [ d ] them ...
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... origin of the Malagasy people , as a whole , in some foreign population . The most influential explanation , which ... origins receded . Fieldwork began to focus on face - to - face communities , whose members find differences from their ...
... origin of the Malagasy people , as a whole , in some foreign population . The most influential explanation , which ... origins receded . Fieldwork began to focus on face - to - face communities , whose members find differences from their ...
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