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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780521650939 , 9780521658829 , 0521650933 , 0521658829
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 318 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 66
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The power of human rights
    DDC: 323
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    Keywords: Human rights ; Human rights ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Menschenrecht ; Internationale Norm ; Durchsetzung ; Innenpolitik ; Politischer Wandel ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 279 - 310 , Socialization of international human rights norms into domestic practices: introduction , International norms and domestic politics in Chile and Guatemala , Transnational activism and political change in Kenya and Uganda , Long and winding road: international norms and domestic political change in South Africa , Changing discourse: transnational advocacy networks in Tunisia and Morocco , Linking the unlinkable? International norms and nationalism in Indonesia and the Philippines , International human rights norms and domestic change: conclusions
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511527876
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 352 pages)
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    DDC: 305.235
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    Keywords: Young adults / Longitudinal studies / Congresses ; School-to-work transition / Longitudinal studies / Congresses ; Young adults / Employment / Longitudinal studies / Congresses ; Jugend ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Berufsanfang ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Berufsanfang ; Jugend ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Structural transformations in the international economy and the restructuring of work have made the transition from education to employment increasingly problematic. School-to-work pathways have become more socially segmented and the risk of under-employment and joblessness has increased for both vocationally and academically educated youth. Continuous passages have become less common and have given way to multiple entries and exits between schooling and working, under-employment, unemployment and domestic work. This edited volume of empirical studies is based on a series of comparable longitudinal research projects which draw on survey and biographical data from important players in the international economy, the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Germany. The studies document that social and gender inequality is a persistent structural feature that restricts the possibilities to take advantage of educational opportunities and career options. Furthermore, different institutional arrangements are shown to play a crucial role in distributing transition opportunities in a more equal way
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511470158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Japanese society
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    DDC: 306/.0952
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    Keywords: Popular culture / Japan ; Volkskultur ; Japan / Civilization / 1945- ; Japan ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Japan ; Volkskultur
    Abstract: Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Sumo in the popular culture of contemporary Japan , Transformational magic , Akira, postmodernism and resistance , Japan's empty orchestras , Vampires, psychic girls, flying women and sailor scouts , Japanese women's magazines , Nonchan's dream , Media stories of bliss and mixed blessings , Cult of Oguricap , Soccer shinhatsubai
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511620829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 504 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.44/0971
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Canada ; Canada ; Languages ; Canada Languages ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Language in Canada provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic and cultural situation in Canada, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The strong central theme connecting language with group and identity will offer insights into the current linguistic and cultural tension in Canada. The book provides comprehensive accounts of the original 'charter' languages, French and English, as well as the aboriginal and immigrant varieties which now contribute to the overall picture. It explains how they came into contact - and sometimes into conflict - and looks at the many ways in which they weave themselves through and around the Canadian social fabric. The public policy issues, particularly official bilingualism and educational policy and language, are also given extensive coverage. Non-specialists as well as linguists will find in this volume, a companion to Language in Australia, Language in the USA and Language in the British Isles, an indispensable guide and reference to the linguistic heritage of Canada
    Abstract: Language in Newfoundland / Sandra Clarke
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511598876
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/00947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1989-1996 ; Nationalismus ; Nationalism / Soviet Union / Republics ; Ethnicity / Former Soviet republics ; Language policy / Former Soviet republics ; Nachfolgestaaten ; Nationenbildung ; Sowjetunion ; Former Soviet republics / Historiography ; Former Soviet republics / Ethnic relations ; Osteuropa ; Baltikum ; Kaukasus ; Zentralasien ; Sowjetunion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Zentralasien ; Nationenbildung ; Geschichte 1989-1996 ; Baltikum ; Nationenbildung ; Geschichte 1989-1996 ; Sowjetunion ; Nachfolgestaaten ; Nationenbildung ; Kaukasus ; Nationenbildung ; Geschichte 1989-1996 ; Osteuropa ; Nationenbildung ; Geschichte 1989-1996
    Abstract: This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states. The first chapter provides a conceptual and theoretical context for examining national identities, drawing in particular upon post-colonial theory. The rest of the book is divided into three parts. In Part I, the authors examine how national histories of the borderland states are being rewritten especially in relation to new nationalising historiographies, around myths of origin, homeland, and descent. Part II explores the ethnopolitics of group boundary construction and how such a politics has led to nationalising policies of both exclusion and inclusion. Part III examines the relationship between nation-building and language, especially with regard to how competing conceptions of national identity have informed the thinking of both political decision-takers and nationalising intellectuals, and the consequences for ethnic minorities. Such perspectives on nation-building are illustrated with substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine, and Belarus, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Post-colonialism and borderland identities , Rediscovering national histories , National history and national identity in Ukraine and Belarus , National identity and myths of ethnogenesis in Transaucasia , History and group identity in Central Asia , Ethnopolitics and the construction of group boundaries , Nation re-building and political discourses of identity politics in the Baltic states , Redefining ethnic and linguistic boundaries in Ukraine: indigenes, settlers and Russophone Ukrainians , The Central Asian states as nationalising regimes , Language and nation-building , Language myths and the discourse of nation-building in Georgia , Language policy and ethnic relations in Uzbekistan
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  • 6
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    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 672 pages)
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    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Politische Wissenschaft ; Social choice ; Political science / Economic aspects ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511571015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in criminology
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    DDC: 303.6/0973
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    Keywords: Violence / United States ; Inner cities / United States ; Children and violence / United States ; Violence in children / United States ; City children / United States ; Urban youth / United States ; Bekämpfung ; Innenstadt ; Jugendkriminalität ; USA ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Innenstadt ; Jugendkriminalität ; Jugendkriminalität ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas. Both biological and psychological characteristics of individuals are considered. The authors also discuss how the urban environment, especially the street culture, affects childhood development. They review a variety of intervention strategies, considering when it would be appropriate to use them and towards whom they should be targeted. Drawing upon ethnographic commentary, laboratory experiments, historical reviews, and program descriptions, this book presents a variety of opinions on the causes of urban violence and the changes necessary to reduce it
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  • 8
    ISBN: 0521473500 , 0521479126
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 365 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachwechsel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511553707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)
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    DDC: 820.9/355/09034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Geschichte ; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism ; Literature and society / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Social problems in literature ; Psychoanalysis and literature ; Geistesleben ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Literatursoziologie ; Englisch ; Kunst ; Gesellschaft ; Kulturpolitik ; Fin de siècle ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / History / Victoria, 1837-1901 ; Great Britain / Civilization / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Kunst ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Großbritannien ; Kulturpolitik ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Englisch ; Literatursoziologie ; Geschichte 1880-1900 ; Fin de siècle ; Literatur ; Englisch
    Abstract: Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken -- The flight to the real / Terry Eagleton -- The new woman and the crisis of Victorianism / Sally Ledger -- Empire, 'race' and feminism at the fin de siècle : The work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner / Laura Chrisman -- W.B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1890's / Stephen Regan -- The double lives of man : narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen -- Henry James and the spectacle of loss : psychoanalytic metaphysics / Marcia Ian -- 'A very curious construction' : masculinity and the poetry of A.E. Housman and Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins -- The pilgrims of hope : William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism / Anne Janowitz -- Urban utopias : socialism, religion and the city, 1880 to 1900 / Lynne Hapgood -- Vampires and the empire : fears and fictions of the 1890s / Alexandra Warwick -- Utopia, limited : nationalism, empire and parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams -- Technologies of monstrosity : Bram Stoker's Dracula / Judith Halberstam -- Postmodernism, a Chance to reread? / Scott McCracken -- Is market society the fin of history? / Regenia Gagnier
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  • 10
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    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 433 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    DDC: 973/.0431
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Geschichte 1820-1945 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Germans / United States / History ; German Americans / History ; Germans / Foreign countries ; Auswanderung ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Deutschland ; USA ; Germany / Emigration and immigration / History ; United States / Emigration and immigration / History ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Deutschland ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Geschichte ; Deutschland ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930 ; Deutschland ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1945 ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Geschichte 1820-1930
    Abstract: The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay
    Description / Table of Contents: German emigration research, north, south, and east : findings, methods, and open questions / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Colonist traditions and nineteenth-century emigration from East Elbian Prussia / Rainer Mühle -- Overseas emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz : the geographic and social contexts / Axel Lubinski -- Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893 / Uwe Reich -- Preserving or transforming role? Migrants and Polish territories in the era of mass migrations / Adam Walaszek -- Traveling workers and the German labor movement / Horst Rössler --Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914 / James H. Jackson, Jr. -- In-migration and out-migration in an area of heavy industry : the case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1956-1870 / Susanne Meyer -- Foreign workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918 / Karl Marten Barfuss -- The international marriage market : theoretical and historical perspectives / Suzanne M. Sinke -- Making service serve themselves : immigrant women and doemstic service in North America, 1850-1920 / Joy K. Lintelmann -- German domestic servants in America, 1850-1914 : a new look at German immigrant women's experiences / Silke Wehner --Acculturation of immigrant women in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century / Deirdre M. Mageean -- Communicating the old and the new : German immigrant women and their press in comparative perspective around 1900 / Monika Blaschke -- Return migration to an urban center : the example of Bremen, 1850-1914 / Karen Schniedewind -- Migration, ethnicity, and working-class formation : Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926 / Sven Beckert -- Changing gender roles and emigration : the example of German Jewish women and their emigration to the United States, 1933-1945 / Sibylle Quack -- Conclusion : migration past and present : the German experience / Klaus J. Bade -- Research on the German migrations, 1820s to 1930s : a report on the state of German scholarship / Dirk Hoerder
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    ISBN: 9780511895500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 390 pages)
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    DDC: 781.6409
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Popular music / History and criticism ; Music / Social aspects ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unterhaltungsmusik
    Abstract: This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such African-American styles and genres as rock 'n' roll and soul music by the black population of South Africa, the question of genre in the early songs of Irving Berlin, the attempts by the governments of South Africa and China to impose specific bodies of music on their populations, the persistence of the minstrel show in rural twentieth-century America and the impact of modernist modes of thought on writing about popular music
    Description / Table of Contents: Modernist narratives and popular music -- Rock and the facts of life -- Changing patterns in society and music: the US since World War II -- "If I were a voice": or, The Hutchinson Family and popular song as political and social protest -- Some thoughts on the measurement of popularity in music -- Elvis, a review -- Home cooking and American soul in black South African popular music -- Rock 'n' roll in a very strange society -- African-American music, South Africa, and apartheid -- "The constant companion of man": Separate development, radio Bantu, and music -- Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa -- Music and radio in the People's Republic of China -- Towards a new reading of Gershwin -- A blues for the ages -- Graceland revisited -- Dvořák in America: nationalism, racism, and national race -- The last minstrel show? -- The role of rock, a review -- Genre, performance, and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin -- Epilogue: John Cage revisited
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    ISBN: 9780511521164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Politik ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Narrative poetry, African ; Power (Social sciences) / Africa ; Social structure / Africa ; Marginality, Social / Africa ; Literatur ; Sozialstruktur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Volksliteratur ; Mündliche Literatur ; Macht ; Randgruppe ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Social life and customs ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Sozialstruktur ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Volksliteratur ; Afrika ; Randgruppe ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Mündliche Literatur ; Afrika ; Macht
    Abstract: African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature / Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner -- 2. Oral art and contemporary cultural nationalism / Penina Mlama -- 3. The letter and the law: the politics of orality and literacy in the chiefdoms of the northern Transvaal / Isabel Hofmeyr -- 4. A king is not above insult: the politics of good governance in Nzema avudwene festival songs / Kofi Agovi -- 5. Igbo enwe eze: monarchical power versus democratic values in Igbo oral narratives / Chukwuma Azuonye -- 6. Tales and ideology: the revolt of sons in Bambara-Malinke tales / Veronika Gorog-Karady -- 7. Images of the powerful in Lyela folktales / Sabine Steinbrich -- 8. Power, marginality and Somali oral poetry: case studies in the dynamics of tradition / John William Johnson -- 9. The function of oral art in the regulation of social power in Dyula society / Jean Derive -- 10. The power of words and the relation between Hausa genres / Graham Furniss
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