Verbal Arts in Madagascar : : Performance in Historical Perspective / / Lee Haring.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the American Folklore Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Malagasy Lore and Folk
- 2. Riddling: Question and Answer
- 3. Proverbs: Dialogue in Monologue
- 4. Proposition and Response: The Merina Hainteny
- 5. Marriage: Petition and Delivery
- 6. Funeral Oratory: Living and Dead
- Notes
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Backmatter