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How to read a folktale : the Ibonia epic from Madagascar / translation and reader's guide by Lee Haring

Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers [2013], 2013

1 Online-Ressource (166 pages) : illustrations, photograph

Englisch

"World Oral Literature Project"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: How to read a folktale : the Ibonia epic from Madagascar. - Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, ©2013. - 152 pages (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-909254-07-X (electronic bk.); 1-909254-06-1 ; 1-909254-05-3 ; 1-909254-08-8 (epub); 1-909254-09-6 (mobi); 978-1-909254-05-3 ; 978-1-909254-06-0 ; 978-1-909254-08-4 (epub); 978-1-909254-07-7 (electronic bk.); 978-1-909254-09-1 (mobi); 978-1-909254-06-0 ; 978-1-909254-05-3 ; 978-1-909254-08-4 ; 978-1-909254-09-1

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OCoLC: 910914289     

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bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC011000 ; bisacsh: SOC 011000

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Tales -- Madagascar ; Folklore -- Madagascar ; Mythology, Malagasy

Anthropology ; Folklore, myths and legends ; Literature and literary studies ; Poetry ; Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge ; Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Society and culture: general ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Sociology and anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folklore ; Mythology, Malagasy ; Tales ; Madagascar

""He Refuses More Names""""Games""; ""He Arms Himself""; ""He Is Tested""; ""He Combats Beast and Man""; ""He Refuses Other Wives""; ""The Disguised Flayer""; ""An Old Man Becomes Stone Man�s Rival""; ""Victory: “Dead, I Do Not Leave You on Earth; Living, I Give You to No Man�""; ""Return of the Royal Couple""; ""Ibonia Prescribes Laws and Bids Farewell""; ""Appendix: Versions and Variants""; ""Works Cited ""; ""Index""

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""Contents""; ""Foreword to Ibonia""; ""Preface""; ""1.�Introduction: What Ibonia is and How to Read it""; ""2.�How to Read Ibonia: Folkloric Restatement""; ""3.�What it is: Texts, Plural ""; ""4.�Texture and Structure: How it is Made""; ""5.�Context, History, Interpretation""; ""6. IBONAMASIBONIAMANORO He of the Clear and Captivating Glance""; ""There Is No Child""; ""Her Quest for Conception""; ""The Locust Becomes a Baby""; ""His Quest for a Birthplace""; ""Yet Unnamed""; ""Refusing Names from Princes""; ""The Name for a Perfected Man""; ""Power ""; ""Stone Man Shakes""