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Author
Cosentino, Donald, 1941-
Title
Defiant maids and stubborn farmers : tradition and invention in Mende story performance / Donald Cosentino
Published
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982
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398.2109664 Cos
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Description
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 4
Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 4
Contents
Machine derived contents note: 1. Prologue; 2. Mende mimesis; 3. Image; 4. The elements of performance; 5. Defiant maids; 6. Stubborn farmers
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 221-222
Subject
Communication in folklore -- Sierra Leone.
Communication -- Sierra Leone -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Performance -- Sierra Leone.
Mende (African people) -- Folklore.
Oral tradition -- Sierra Leone.
Storytelling -- Sierra Leone.
Tales -- Sierra Leone -- History and criticism.
LC no.
81015517
ISBN
0521241979
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