General Note:
Part II contains papers originally presented at a conference on African folklore, held July 16-18, 1970, Folklore Institute, Indiana University.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Africa and the folklorist / R.M. Dorson -- Part II. Papers of the African Folklore Conference -- Description in Gbaya literary art / Philip A. Noss -- Two Benin storytellers / Dan Ben-Amos -- The art of Nongenile Mazithathu Zenani, a Gcaleka Ntsomi performer / Harold Scheub -- African dilemma tales : an introduction / William Bascom -- Afro-Arab relations in the Sudanese folktale / Sayyid Hamid Hurreiz -- A characteristic African folktale pattern / Lee Haring -- The language of the proverb in Akan / L.A. Boadi -- The proverb in modern written Swahili literature : an aid to proverb elicitation / Carol M. Eastman -- Yoruba tongue twisters / Ayodele Ogundipe -- Critical approaches to folklore in African literature / Bernth Lindfors -- Wala oral history and Wa's social realities / Mona Fikry-Atallah -- The epic as a genre in Congo oral literature / Daniel Biebuyck -- Heroic songs of the Mande hunters / Charles Bird -- Metaphor and symbolism in the heroic poetry of Southern Africa / Daniel P. Kunene -- Folklore and the Yoruba drama : Ọbàtálá as a case study / Joel Adedeji -- Equatorial excursions : the folklore of narcotic-inspired visions in an African religious movement / James W. Fernandez -- Part III. Texts of African folklore -- The Sudan : Manasir and Jaʻaliyyin tales / collected by Sayyid Hurreiz -- Liberia : Vai tales / collected by Jangaba Johnson and Bai T. Moore -- Ghana : Tales collected from the Wala of Wa / by Mona Fikry-Atallah -- Mali : Bambara oral prose and verse narratives / collected by Charles Bird -- Cameroun : Gbaya tales / collected by Philip A. Noss -- Gabon : Fang visions / collected by James W. Fernandez -- South Africa : A Xhosa narrative / collected by Harold Scheub.
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