African folklore : an encyclopedia /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2004. |
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| Description: | xxxii, 593 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5054654 |
Table of 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
