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1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) : illustrations, photograph |
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World Oral Literature Series ; Volume 3 |
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World oral literature series ; Volume 3.
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| Contents |
Audio-Video Resources -- Foreword / Mark Turin -- Writing Oral Narrative: The Role and Description of Self in Recording Living Traditions -- The Tabwa Context: Mature Shifting of Frames and Adolescent Assertion -- Chiefs, Tricksters and Christians: Bemba Tales and Lessons -- Bisa Storytelling: The Politics of Hunting, Beer-Drinks, and Elvis -- Telling Tales While Keeping Secrets: Two Lunda Storytelling Sessions -- Stories on Demand: A Performance Session Among the Bwile -- Conclusion: Lessons from Frozen Moments |
| Summary |
"Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia in in man other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalized audio and video recordings into the texst enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
"World Oral Literature Project"--Cover |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and index |
| Notes |
© 2013 Robert Cancel, Foreword © 2013 Mark Turin. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY 3.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made the respective authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Further details available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
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Print version record |
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Storytelling -- Zambia
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Oral tradition -- Zambia
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African languages.
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Anthropology.
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Folklore, myths and legends.
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Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge.
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Oral tradition
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Storytelling
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Zambia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781909254619 |
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1909254614 |
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