Allegories of the Wilderness Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
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1982
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780253304711
Publisert
1982-11-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
862 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
340
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Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).
" . . . a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis . . . " —Research in African LiteraturesPoet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.
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Preface1. Introduction2. Form and Play in Kuranko Fiction3. During a Time of Great Hunger4. Hare and Hyena5. Prevented Transitions6. Reciprocities7. Men and Women8. Co-Wives, Orphans, and Miraculous Interventions9. DirectionsAppendixNotesGlossary of Kuranko WordsReferencesList of NarrativesIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253304711
Publisert
1982-11-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
862 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
340
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).