TY - BOOK AU - Haring,Lee TI - Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective T2 - Publications of the American Folklore Society SN - 9780812231410 AV - GR357 U1 - 398.09691 20 PY - 2017///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Folk literature, Malagasy KW - History and criticism KW - Folklore KW - Performance KW - Madagascar KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Malagasy Lore and Folk --; 2. Riddling: Question and Answer --; 3. Proverbs: Dialogue in Monologue --; 4. Proposition and Response: The Merina Hainteny --; 5. Marriage: Petition and Delivery --; 6. Funeral Oratory: Living and Dead --; Notes --; Sources Consulted --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access N2 - A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512816693 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512816693 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512816693.jpg ER -