Across eighteen lively chapters, Cécile Leguy, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (France) and former President of ISOLA, takes her readers to Mali, among the Bwa people, where she has conducted long-term fieldwork. Through a sequence of concise autobiographical anecdotes, told in simple and lucid prose, she recounts her experiences as a...
Special issue / Numéro spécial Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: a journal for African literature Guest editors: Hermelind Le Doeuff, Cécile Leguy, Daniela Merolla We are happy to announce that a special issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: a journal for African literature, Mbuyu 2, has been published. The articles in this issue originated as conference papers at the 13th...
This open access special issue presents 16 classics from the History of the African Humanities, featuring authors from both sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. A glimpse of the introduction: This theme section brings together introductions to some of the seminal texts by African authors that have shaped the African humanities from at least the twelfth...
Special issue: Mbuyu 1 (research articles from the 13th conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa)
En 1982, au moment de la réédition de son livre cisungu, Audrey Richards expliquait que le rituel qu’elle avait observé en 1931 avait disparu. Néanmoins, le rituel existait toujours de 1989 à 1998 et s’était adapté à l’évolution brutale de la société. Après une description de ce que fut la culture traditionnelle du Nord de la Zambie, région où cette initiation de filles existait depuis fort longtemps, les trois rituels seront mis en parallèle afin de montrer certaines évolutions. Ensuite, le niveau d’imprégnation du concept d’initiation sera analysé à propos de l’instauration d’une nouvelle religion et de la présence du VIH dans la région.
Offers a complete, deep, and innovative analysis of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and among Africans in the diaspora. Asses the current and historical dynamics between oral traditions and folklore, illustrating how the nature of oral transmission of cultural heritage and folklore ...
This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertis ing, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject.
Réservée au départ au vocabulaire spécialisé de la psychologie et des sciences sociales, la notion de parentalité est largement utilisée aujourd’hui pour désigner les fonctions et les pratiques parentales.
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.
It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights – and more. Here an acclaimed African...