African folklore : an encyclopedia

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Where to find it

Davis Library (5th floor)

Call Number
GR350 .A33 2004
Status
Available

Stone Center Library — Reference

Call Number
GR350 .A33 2004 c. 3
Status
In-Library Use Only

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Summary

This work offers comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 350 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore.

Contents

  • Ancestors
  • Arabic Folk Literature of North Africa
  • Architecture
  • Archives of Traditional Music
  • Banjo: African Roots
  • Beadwork
  • Birth and Death Rituals among the Gikuyu
  • Body Arts: Hair Sculpture
  • Caribbean Verbal Arts
  • Children's Folklore: Ndeble Songs
  • Contemporary Bards: Hausa Verbal Artists
  • Cosmology
  • Crowley, Daniel
  • Decorated Vehicles (Focus on Western Nigeria)
  • Dialogic Performances: Call and Response in African
  • Narrating
  • Dolls and Toys
  • Dreams
  • Electronic Media and Oral Traditions
  • Epics: Liongo Epic of the Swahili
  • Eritrea
  • Eshu, the Yoruba Trickster
  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E
  • Evil Eye
  • Folk Tales
  • Gender Representation in African Folklore
  • Gesture in African Oral Narrative
  • Government Policies Toward Folklore
  • Greetings: A Case Study from the Kerebe
  • History and Religious Rituals: Bemba Traditions
  • Institutional Study of African Folklore
  • Insults and Ribald Language
  • Jews of Ethiopia
  • Joking Relationships
  • Kenya
  • Kwanzaa
  • Libraries
  • Linguistics and African Verbal Arts
  • Mancala
  • Medicine: Overview
  • Metallurgy and Folklore
  • Music in Africa: Overview
  • Myths: Overview
  • Naming Customs in Africa
  • Niger
  • Nsibidi: An Indigenous Writing System
  • Old Man and Old Woman
  • Oral Tradition and Oral Historiography
  • Oratory: Political Oratory and its Use of Traditional Verbal Art
  • Pidgin and Creole Languages
  • Popular Culture
  • Puppetry
  • Queen Mothers
  • Radio and Television Dramas
  • Rastafari: A Marginalized People
  • Religions: Afro-Brazilian Religions
  • Rwanda: Tales of Genocide
  • Santeria in Cuba
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Silence in Expressive Behavior
  • Songs for Ceremonies
  • Spirit Possession: Kunda
  • Superstitions
  • Textiles: African American Quilts, Textiles, and Cloth Charms
  • Tongue Twisters, East Africa
  • Translation
  • Urban Folklore: The Swahili of Zanzibar
  • Verbal Arts: African American
  • Voice Disguisers
  • Vodou
  • Witchcraft, Magic and Sorcery
  • Women's Expressive Culture in Africa
  • Words and the Dogon
  • Work Songs
  • Yards and Gardens: African American Traditions
  • Zar: Spirit Possession in the Sudan

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