Lexikon der afrikanistischen Erzählforschung

Edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Herrmann Jungraithmayr. In collaboration with: Rose Marie Beck, Andreas E. Eckl. With an introduction by: Thomas Geider †.

1998
367 pp.
English-German and German-French keyword index
Text language(s): German
Format: 150 x 215 mm
630 g
Hardcover
€ 39.80

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This dictionary of terms is aimed at a broad audience. It wants to provide a fast access to the wide field of African oral cultures. Primarily the book wants to help students who work in the field of African orality, but it is also useful for anyone not specialized in this field of study but interested in getting a first impression of it by means of short articles / miscellanea. Within the last two decades there has been a continuously rising interest in comparative, socioanthropological and literary-esthetic analysis of texts in African languages. The cultures of Africa are rapidly changing and in a transition from orality to recorded writing. Anyone who is interested in Africa’s spiritual and social institutions and in Africans’ mentality and way of life, their poetry and music, has to refer to orally transmitted sources which have been set down in writing.

Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan, published back in 1970, is the only methodologically related work which sums up the different methods of research in oral literature. Every keyword has its English and French equivalent given in an English and a French subject index at the end of the volume. An extensive and detailed bibliography gives all sources that are quoted in the articles.

Under these links you will find further contributions to the methodology of oral literature research:

Accompanying material:

• „Derjenige, der sich selbst erschaffen hat …“ (ISBN 978-3-89645-283-2)
• Afrikaner schreiben zurück (ISBN 978-3-89645-053-1)
• Animal Husbands, Magic Horns and Water Spirits (ISBN 978-3-89645-221-4)
• Catalogue of the Khoisan Folktales of Southern Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-870-4)
• Children Born from Eggs (ISBN 978-3-89645-192-7)
• Die Figur des Oger in der traditionellen Literatur und Lebenswelt der Pokomo in Ost-Kenya (ISBN 978-3-927620-60-5)
• Die Mafa im Spiegel ihrer oralen Literatur (ISBN 978-3-89645-126-2)
• From the Tana River to Lake Chad – Research in African Oratures and Literatures (ISBN 978-3-89645-836-0)
• Lexikon der Afrikanistik (ISBN )
• Motivforschung in Volkserzählungen der Kanuri (Tschadsee-Region) (ISBN 978-3-89645-273-3)
• Sprache und Musik in Mandinka-Erzählungen (ISBN 978-3-89645-265-8)
• The Forgotten Bride (ISBN 978-3-89645-193-4)

Cross-reference:

• “Grandmother’s Footsteps” (ISBN 978-3-89645-056-2)
• A War for People (ISBN 978-3-89645-362-4)
• African Media Cultures – Cultures de médias en Afrique (ISBN 978-3-89645-246-7)
• Bongo Media Worlds (ISBN 978-3-89645-834-6)
• Global Heritage – Tradition and Innovation (ISBN 978-3-89645-249-8)
• Mandinka Spoken Art (ISBN 978-3-927620-63-6)
• Narrations of the Kavango (ISBN 978-3-89645-279-5)
• Singing in the Bush (ISBN 978-3-89645-355-6)
• The Kavango Peoples in the Past (ISBN 978-3-89645-353-2)

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