Oral literature for children :: rethinking orality, literacy, performance, and documentation practices /

This book is the first ever major effort to document and study hundreds of texts from an African (Ugandan) oral culture for children - folktales, riddles, and rhymes - and at the same time to make them available in the local languages and to focus on their cultural and national value. The author sur...

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1. Verfasser: Mushengyezi, Aaron
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Cross/cultures ; v154.
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Zusammenfassung:This book is the first ever major effort to document and study hundreds of texts from an African (Ugandan) oral culture for children - folktales, riddles, and rhymes - and at the same time to make them available in the local languages and to focus on their cultural and national value. The author surveys the history of collecting in Uganda and situates the texts in their broader geographical, historical, socio-cultural and educational setting, including the early collecting efforts of heritage-minded Ugandans and European missionaries. Most of this preservational work is elusive and under-explo.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789401208888
9401208883
9042036176
9789042036178

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