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Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions

Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions

Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives as they were recounted during Robert Cancel’s research trips to Zambia. Robert Cancel's thorough critical interpretation, combined with these newly digitalised audio and video materials, makes Storytelling in Northern Zambia a much needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies that deal with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between... Show More
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folklore, African languages, myths and legends, Northern Zambia, Bemba-speaking groups, Zambia, social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
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Date Added to MERLOT:
May 10, 2018
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March 1, 2019
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