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  • Evil in Africa

    Encounters with the Everyday

    Modifié par William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek ...
    William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in ... En savoir plus

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  • Singing with the Dogon Prophet

    par Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumarou S. Ongoiba, Atimè D. Saye ...
    In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abir?, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the heartland of the Dogon. The baja ni songs have escaped scholarly attention thus far. Singing with the Dogon Prophet by Walter E.A. van Beek, ... En savoir plus

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

    Tales That Come, Tales That Go

    par Walter E.A. van Beek ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

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