Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Jan 31, 2017 - Social Science - 256 pages
A 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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1 Malagasy Lore and Folk
1
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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