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Author : Ngwabi Bhebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112860486
Author : H. C. Groenewald
Publisher : Human Sciences Research
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000027319684
The authors give a glimpse of the rich variety of oral traditions encountered in the southern African region and touch on a number of disciplines that investigate these traditions. The book reminds us that there are millions of people who do not have direct access to the media. These people are reliant on - and highly proficient in - their own oral traditions, through which they and their forefathers provided education and entertainment, long before the advent of the written word.
Author : Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030555177
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo,Tobias W. C. Sumaili,James A. Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : UVA:X001616828
Author : Jonathan A. Draper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004130869
Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy monitored by missionaries and colonial authorities. Old and new oral traditions, however, are beyond the control of empire and often carry the resistance, hopes, and dreams of colonized people. The essays in this volume recover aspects of Southern Africa's rich oral tradition. The authors, from disciplines such as anthropology, African literature, and biblical studies, delineate some of the contours of the indigenous knowledge systems which sustained resistance to colonialism and today provide resources for postapartheid society in Southern Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010344219
A comprehensive study of the importance of oral tradition of various ancient societies to the work and research of students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history.
Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155751
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo,Tobias W. C. Sumaili,James A. Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : UVA:X001616851
Author : Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465144
Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author : Duncan Brown
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000066063532
This work draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, enthnomusicology and African language studies in an analysis of the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. The work examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to talk back to the technology of print.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299150938
In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976—a period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its end—Harold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories. With tape-recorder and camera in hand, Scheub registered the testaments of Swati, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Zulu storytellers, farming people who lived in the remote reaches of rural South Africa. While young people fought in the streets of Soweto and South African writers made the world aware of apartheid’s evils, the rural storytellers resisted apartheid in their own way, using myth and metaphor to preserve their traditions and confront their oppressors. For more than 20 years, Scheub kept the promise he made to the storytellers to publish his translations of their stories only when freedom came to South Africa. The Tongue Is Fire presents these voices of South African oral tradition—the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers—documenting their enduring faith in the power of the word to sustain tradition in the face of determined efforts to distort or eliminate it. These texts are a tribute to the storytellers who have always, in periods of crisis, exercised their art to inspire their own people.
Author : Inge Brinkman,Axel Fleisch
Publisher : Koppe
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000065162319
The book consists of nine narratives related by Angolans residing across the border in Namibia after fleeing from the Angolan war, mostly from the south-eastern provinces of Angola. They were recorded between 1996-1999. The book is augmented by a chapter by Axel Fleisch about language and history of the South-West of Angola.
Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015027477531
"This highly original study deals with both literary and historical methods, with the role of gender in storytelling and of oral narratives in a range of communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo,Tobias W. C. Sumaili,James A. Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : UVA:X001616852