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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... riddles , beliefs , and folk- songs . They founded the Malagasy Folk - lore Society in 1877 , a year before its British counterpart ( Domenichini - Ramiaramanana 1983 : 173 ) , and pub- lished twelve numbers of a folklore journal ( 1886 ) ...
... riddles , beliefs , and folk- songs . They founded the Malagasy Folk - lore Society in 1877 , a year before its British counterpart ( Domenichini - Ramiaramanana 1983 : 173 ) , and pub- lished twelve numbers of a folklore journal ( 1886 ) ...
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... riddle ” ( 31 ) , but in contrast , the category includes poetry , proverbs , and oratory along with riddling . Whereas American riddles , in McDowell's presentation , are a set of “ enactments based on interrogation , " these Mala ...
... riddle ” ( 31 ) , but in contrast , the category includes poetry , proverbs , and oratory along with riddling . Whereas American riddles , in McDowell's presentation , are a set of “ enactments based on interrogation , " these Mala ...
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... Riddles , " choices " [ double riddles ] Songs of the ancients Excerpts from orations Children's games Legends , fables , and stories How authentic are these printed texts ? Many pieces I discuss here were collected under the assumption ...
... Riddles , " choices " [ double riddles ] Songs of the ancients Excerpts from orations Children's games Legends , fables , and stories How authentic are these printed texts ? Many pieces I discuss here were collected under the assumption ...
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... riddle , the performer retains a choice among several possibilities . Other voices also drew attention to the dialectic between unity and cultural diversity in the colonial period , though few of them spoke for folklore . One teacher ...
... riddle , the performer retains a choice among several possibilities . Other voices also drew attention to the dialectic between unity and cultural diversity in the colonial period , though few of them spoke for folklore . One teacher ...
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Contents
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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