Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Verbal Arts in Madagascar : Performance in Historical Perspective / Lee Haring.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the American Folklore SocietyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780812231410
  • 9781512816693
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.09691 20
LOC classification:
  • GR357
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512816693

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 online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)