African Folklore - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)

Contents:
Africans in the United Kingdom; Africans in the USA; Akan/Ashanti; Algeria; Ancestors; Angola; Animals in African Folklore; Arabic Folk Literature of North Africa; Architecture; Archives of Traditional Music; Astronomy; Bamana; Banjo: African Roots; Bao; Bascom, William; Basketry, African; Basketry, African American; Beadwork; Benin; Birth and Death Rituals among the Gikuyu; Blacksmiths: Dar Zaghawa of the Sudan; Blacksmiths: Mande of Western Africa; Body Arts: African American Arts of the Body; Body Arts: Body Decoration in Africa; Body Arts: Hair Sculpture; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Callaway, Bishop Henry; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Cardinal Directions; Caribbean Verbal Arts; Carnivals and African American Cultures; Cartoons; Central African Folklore; Central African Republic; Ceramics; Ceramics and Gender; Chad; Chief; Children's Folklore: Iteso Songs of War Time; Children's Folklore: Kunda Songs; Children's Folklore: Ndeble; Classiques Africaines; Color Symbolism: The Akan of Ghana; Comoros; Concert Parties; Congo (Republic of the Congo); Contemporary Bards: Hausa Verbal Artists; Cosmology; Cote d'Ivoire; Cote d'Ivoire, Folklore; Crowley, Daniel; Dance: Overview with a Focus on Namibia; Decorated Vehicles (Focus on Western Nigeria); Democratic Republic of Congo; Dialogic Performances: Call and Response in African Narrating; Diaspora: African Communities in the United Kingdom; Diaspora: African Communities in the United States; Diaspora: African Traditions in Brazil; Diaspora: Sea Islands of the USA; Dilemma Tales; Divination: Household Divination Among the Kongo; Divination: Ifá Divination in Cuba; Divination: Overview; Djibouti; Dolls and Toys; Drama: Anang Ibibio Traditional Drama; Draughts; Dreams; Dress; Drumming: Ewe; Dyula; East African Folklore: Overview; Education: Folklore in Schools; Egypt; Electronic Media and Oral Traditions; Epics: Liongo Epic of the Swahili; Epics: Overview; Epics: West African Epics; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Eshu, the Yoruba Trickster; Esthetics: Baule Visual Arts; Ethiopia; Evans-Pritchard, E. E.; Evil Eye; Festivals: Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda; Films on African Folklore; Folk Tales; Foodways: Cattle and Sorghum Grain in Jie Cosmology; Foodways: Yoruba Food Vendors; French Study of African Folklore; Frobenius, L.; Gabon; Gambia, The; Gender Representation in African Folklore; German Study of African Folklore; Gesture in African Oral Narrative; Ghana; Gossip and Rumor; Gourds: Their Uses and Decorations; Government Policies Toward Folklore; Greetings: A Case Study from the Kerebe; Griaule, Marcel; Griots and Griottes; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Healing and Spirit Possession in São Tomé and Príncipe; Hero; Hero in Sukuma Prose Narratives; Herskovits, Melville J.; History and Cultural Identity: The Chokwe; History and Folklore: The Luba; History and Religious Rituals: Bemba Traditions; Housing, African American Traditions; Hunting: Aka Net Hunting; Identity and Folklore: The Kunda; Ideophones; Indian Ocean Islands: The Process of Creolization; Initiation; Institutional Study of African Folklore; Insults and Ribald Language; Islamic Brotherhoods: Baye Fall and Yengu, A Mouride Spirituality; Japanese Study of African Folklore; Jews of Ethiopia; Jokes and Humor; Joking Relationships; Kenya; Kwanzaa; Languages; Languages: Africanisms in the Americas; Legends: East Africa; Lesotho; Libation; Liberia; Libraries; Libya; Linguistics and African Verbal Arts; Madagascar; Maghrib (northwestern North Africa); Maghrib: Algeria; Maghrib: Berber Peoples: Their Language and Folklore; Malagasy Folklore and its Study; Malawi; Mali; Mami Wata in Central Africa; Mancala; Maqalat: Concepts of Folklore in the Sudan; Masks and Masquerades; Masquerading by Women: Ejagham; Mauritania; Mauritius; Medicine: Folk Medicine of the Hausa; Medicine: Indigeneous Therapeutic Systems in Western Kenya; Medicine: Overview; Metallurgy and Folklore; Morocco; Mozambique; Music and Dance: Uganda; Music in Africa: Overview; Music: African Musical Traditions in the US; Music: Arab and Jewish Music of North Africa; Music: Atalaku of Central Africa; Music: Music and Dance Styles of the Ewe; Music: Musical Innovation in African Independent Churches; Music: Popular Dance Music in Congo-Zaire; Music: Soukouss; Music: West African Highlife; Musical Instruments: Focus on Namibia; Myths: Mythology and Society in Madagascar: A Tanala Example; Myths: Myths of Origin and Sculpture: The Makonde; Myths: Overview; Namibia; Naming Customs in Africa; Naming Customs: East Africa; Narration and Verbal Discourse: The Lugbara of Uganda; Niger; Nigeria; Northeast Africa: Overview; Northeastern Africa ("The Horn"): Overview; Nsibidi: An Indigenous Writing System; Okyeame; Old Man and Old Woman; Oral Literary Research in Africa; Oral Literature: Issues of Definition and Terminology; Oral Narrative; Oral Performance and Literature; Oral Performance Dynamics; Oral Tradition and Oral Historiography; Oral Tradition: Oral History and Zambia; Oral Traditions; Oral Traditions: African; Orality and Literacy in Africa; Oratory: An Introduction; Oratory: Political Oratory and its Use of Traditional Verbal Art; Origins and Culture Heroes: Nilotic Peoples; Orisha; Orphan Motif; Oxford Library of African Literature; Oyo tunji: A Yoruba Community in the USA; Palaver (Kinzonzi) in Kongo Life; Performance in Africa; Performance Studies and African Folklore Research; Performing Arts of São Tomé and Príncipe; Performing Arts of the Tiv; Performing Arts of Uganda; Personal Narratives; Pidgin and Creole Languages; Polyrhythms; Popular Culture; Portuguese Study of African Folklore; Praise Poetry: Praise Poetry of the Basotho; Praise Poetry: Praise Poetry of the Xhosa; Praise Poetry: Southern African Praise Poetry; Praise Poetry: Xhosa Praise Poetry for Nelson Mandela; Praise Poetry: Yoruba Oriki; Prose and Poetry of the Fulani; Prose Narratives: The Maasai; Prose Narratives: The Mende; Prose Narratives: The Tabwa; Proverbs; Proverbs: Sesotho Proverbs; Puppetry; Queen Mothers; Radio and Television Dramas; Rastafari: A Marginalized People; Rattray, R. S.; Religion: African Traditional Religion; Religions: Afro-Brazilian Religions; Religious Ceremonies and Festivals: São Tomé and Príncipe; Riddles; Riddles: Sesotho Riddles; Ritual Performance; Rwanda; Rwanda: Folklore; Sahir; Santería in Cuba; São Tomé and Príncipe; Secrecy in African Orature; Senegal; Seychelles; Sheng: East African Urban Folk Speech; Sierre Leone; Silence in Expressive Behavior; Sîra: North African Epics; Somalia; Songs for Ceremonies; Songs of the Dyula; South Africa; Southern Africa: Overview; Southern Africa: Contemporary Forms of Folklore; Southern Africa: Shona Folklore; Southern African Oral Traditions; Speaking and Non-Speaking Power Objects of the Senufo; Spirit Possession: Comfa: Spirit Possession Dance in Guyana; Spirit Possession: Kunda; Spirit Possession: Tuareg and Songhay; Spirit Possession: West Africa; Stories and Story-Telling: The Limba; Storytellers; Sudan; Superstitions; Surrogate Languages: Alternative Communication; Swaziland; Tanzania; Textile Arts and Communication; Textiles: African American Quilts, Textiles, and Cloth Charms; Theater: African Popular Theater; Theater: Duro Ladipo and Yoruba Folk Theater; Theater: Popular Theater in Southern Africa; Theater: Theater for Development; Theater: Yoruba Folk Theater; Togo; Tongue Twisters, East Africa; Tongue-Twisters: Yoruba; Touring Performance Groups; Tourism and Tourist Arts; Translation; Tricksters in African Folklore; Tricksters: Ture of the Azande; Tuareg and the Performance of Prose Narratives; Tunisia; Typology and Performance in the Study of Prose Narratives in Africa; Uganda; Urban Folklore: A Sudanese Example; Urban Folklore: The Swahili of Zanzibar; Verbal Arts: African American; Verbal Arts: The Ibibio of Southeastern Nigeria; Visual and Performing Arts: The Songye; Visual Arts: Uli Painting of the Igbo; Vodou; Voice Disguisers; Wari; Water Ethos: The Ijo of the Niger Delta; West African Folklore: An Overview; Western Sahara; Witchcraft, Magic and Sorcery; Women Pop Singers of Mali; Women's Expressive Culture in Africa; Women's Folklore: Eritrea; Women's Folklore: Ghana; Words and the Dogon; Work Songs; Yards and Gardens: African American Traditions; Zambia; Zar: Spirit Possession in the Sudan; Zimbabwe

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2004
Editors:	Philip M. Peek • Kwesi Yankah
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	632
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-93933-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology Promotions
LSN:	0-415-93933-X
Barcode:	9780415939331

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