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  • How to Read a Folktale

    The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar

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    Series Book 4 - World Oral Literature Series
    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale ... Read more

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  • Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

    by Lee Haring ...
    The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an ... Read more

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  • Grand Theory in Folkloristics

    Edited by Lee Haring ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Essays arguing diverse positions on the concept of a grand theory in American folklore.Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical level. Through ... Read more

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  • Best of the Best

    The Birth and Legacy of a Legend

    Best of the Best chronicles the life, struggles, and achievements of the Fabulous Fred Hare, Omaha's High School Legend and historic hero of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. From his family's rocky beginnings, to the challenges in his newfound home in Omaha, Nebraska. This book also includes the onset of his basketball legacy and the many other endeavors he endured and triumphed over the course of his ... Read more

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    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

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  • Local Knowledge

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