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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... ( poems ) , which I study below . At that moment , the study of folklore be- came part of Malagasy culture . British Missionary Folklorists After the queen's death in 1861 , when the missionaries were allowed back into the country , until ...
... ( poems ) , which I study below . At that moment , the study of folklore be- came part of Malagasy culture . British Missionary Folklorists After the queen's death in 1861 , when the missionaries were allowed back into the country , until ...
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... music , art , costume , architec- ture , cookery , and religion . For verbal art , Dahle's table of contents shows the repertoire among the Merina : Longer " art of the word " pieces [ poems 14 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
... music , art , costume , architec- ture , cookery , and religion . For verbal art , Dahle's table of contents shows the repertoire among the Merina : Longer " art of the word " pieces [ poems 14 Malagasy Lore and Folk.
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... [ poems translated into prose ] Shorter “ art of the word " pieces resembling proverbs Riddles , " choices " [ double riddles ] Songs of the ancients Excerpts from orations Children's games Legends , fables , and stories How authentic are ...
... [ poems translated into prose ] Shorter “ art of the word " pieces resembling proverbs Riddles , " choices " [ double riddles ] Songs of the ancients Excerpts from orations Children's games Legends , fables , and stories How authentic are ...
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... poems , or speakers of proverbs . Elinor Ochs Keenan ( 1973 ) has recorded both the variability of marriage speeches among the Merina and the flu- idity of the rules the speakers were expected to follow . Texts are not performances ...
... poems , or speakers of proverbs . Elinor Ochs Keenan ( 1973 ) has recorded both the variability of marriage speeches among the Merina and the flu- idity of the rules the speakers were expected to follow . Texts are not performances ...
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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