Remembering Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro : African storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler.
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TextLanguage: English, Nilo-Saharan (Other) Series: Anthropological horizonsPublication details: London: university of Toronto press, 2014.Description: xxi, 365 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781442648661 (cloth)
- 144264866X (cloth)
- 9781442626317 (paper)
- 1442626313 (paper)
- Jie (African people) -- Folklore
- Jie (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Storytelling -- Uganda -- Kotido District
- Ethnology -- Uganda -- Kotido District
- Jie (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Folklore
- Jie (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Moeurs et coutumes
- Art de conter -- Ouganda -- Kotido (District)
- Ethnologie -- Ouganda -- Kotido (District)
- GR356.52.J53 .M57
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jie past and present : ecology, economy, guns, and state -- Ethnography of storytelling -- Patterns and images of historical tradition -- The Jie landscape, memory, and historical tradition -- Historical tradition and poetic persuasion of pastness -- The return of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro -- A Jie storyteller's autobiography : the significance of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro oral tradition -- Conclusion -- The stories.
Includes some text in Turkana, followed by the English translation. Also includes a glossary of places and words in Turkana, followed by the meaning in English.
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