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Remembering Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro : African storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler

By: Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal [author].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropological horizons: Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ℗♭2014Description: xxi, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781442648661 (cloth); 144264866X (cloth); 9781442626317 (paper); 1442626313 (paper).Subject(s): Jie (African people) -- Folklore | Jie (African people) -- Social life and customs | Storytelling -- Uganda -- Kotido District | Ethnology -- Uganda -- Kotido DistrictDDC classification: 398.2089/965
Contents:
Introduction -- Jie past and present : ecology, economy, guns, and state -- Ethnography of storytelling -- Patterns and images of historical tradition -- The Jie landscape, memory, and historical tradition -- Historical tradition and poetic persuasion of pastness -- The return of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro -- A Jie storyteller's autobiography : the significance of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro oral tradition -- Conclusion -- The stories
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non fiction 398.2089/965 (Browse shelf) Available N000005616

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index

Introduction -- Jie past and present : ecology, economy, guns, and state -- Ethnography of storytelling -- Patterns and images of historical tradition -- The Jie landscape, memory, and historical tradition -- Historical tradition and poetic persuasion of pastness -- The return of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro -- A Jie storyteller's autobiography : the significance of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro oral tradition -- Conclusion -- The stories

Includes some text in Turkana, followed by the English translation. Also includes a glossary of places and words in Turkana, followed by the meaning in English

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