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Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

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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 postco...

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Main Author: Haring, Lee (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2023
Series:World Oral Literature Series 10
Subjects:
Folklore, myths & legends
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Oral history
oral narrators;literary skills;versatility;small African island;French ethnographer;interview;1970s-80s;ancient values;preservation;postcolonial world;island of Mayotte
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