African Folklore: An Encyclopedia
by Peek,Philip M.; Peek,Philip M.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-12-08
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references,African Folklore: An Encyclopediais an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Table of Contents
| Africans in the United Kingdom | |
| Africans in the USA | |
| Akan/Ashanti | |
| Algeria | |
| Ancestors | |
| Angola | |
| Animals in African Folklore | |
| Arabic Folk Literature of North Africa | |
| Architecture | |
| Archives of Traditional Music | |
| Astronomy | |
| Bamana | |
| Banjo: African Roots | |
| Bao | |
| Bascom, William | |
| Basketry, African | |
| Basketry, African American | |
| Beadwork | |
| Benin | |
| Birth and Death Rituals among the Gikuyu | |
| Blacksmiths: Dar Zaghawa of the Sudan | |
| Blacksmiths: Mande of Western Africa | |
| Body Arts: African American Arts of the Body | |
| Body Arts: Body Decoration in Africa | |
| Body Arts: Hair Sculpture | |
| Botswana | |
| Burkina Faso | |
| Burundi | |
| Callaway, Bishop Henry | |
| Cameroon | |
| Cape Verde | |
| Cardinal Directions | |
| Caribbean Verbal Arts | |
| Carnivals and African American Cultures | |
| Cartoons | |
| Central African Folklore | |
| Central African Republic | |
| Ceramics | |
| Ceramics and Gender | |
| Chad | |
| Chief | |
| Children's Folklore: Iteso Songs of War Time | |
| Children's Folklore: Kunda Songs | |
| Children's Folklore: Ndeble | |
| Classiques Africaines | |
| Color Symbolism: The Akan of Ghana | |
| Comoros | |
| Concert Parties | |
| Congo (Republic of the Congo) | |
| Contemporary Bards: Hausa Verbal Artists | |
| Cosmology | |
| Cote d'Ivoire | |
| Cote d'Ivoire, Folklore | |
| Crowley, Daniel | |
| Dance: Overview with a Focus on Namibia | |
| Decorated Vehicles (Focus on Western Nigeria) | |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| Dialogic Performances: Call and Response in African Narrating | |
| Diaspora: African Communities in the United Kingdom | |
| Diaspora: African Communities in the United States | |
| Diaspora: African Traditions in Brazil | |
| Diaspora: Sea Islands of the USA | |
| Dilemma Tales | |
| Divination: Household Divination Among the Kongo | |
| Divination: Ifß Divination in Cuba | |
| Divination: Overview | |
| Djibouti | |
| Dolls and Toys | |
| Drama: Anang Ibibio Traditional Drama | |
| Draughts | |
| Dreams | |
| Dress | |
| Drumming: Ewe | |
| Dyula | |
| East African Folklore: Overview | |
| Education: Folklore in Schools | |
| Egypt | |
| Electronic Media and Oral Traditions | |
| Epics: Liongo Epic of the Swahili | |
| Epics: Overview | |
| Epics: West African Epics | |
| Equatorial Guinea | |
| Eritrea | |
| Eshu, the Yoruba Trickster | |
| Esthetics: Baule Visual Arts | |
| Ethiopia | |
| Evans-Pritchard, E. E. | |
| Evil Eye | |
| Festivals: Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda | |
| Films on African Folklore | |
| Folk Tales | |
| Foodways: Cattle and Sorghum Grain in Jie Cosmology | |
| Foodways: Yoruba Food Vendors | |
| French Study of African Folklore | |
| Frobenius, L. | |
| Gabon | |
| Gambia, The | |
| Gender Representation in African Folklore | |
| German Study of African Folklore | |
| Gesture in African Oral Narrative | |
| Ghana | |
| Gossip and Rumor | |
| Gourds: Their Uses and Decorations | |
| Government Policies Toward Folklore | |
| Greetings: A Case Study from the Kerebe | |
| Griaule, Marcel | |
| Griots and Griottes | |
| Guinea | |
| Guinea-Bissau | |
| Healing and Spirit Possession in Spo TomT and Prfncipe | |
| Hero | |
| Hero in Sukuma Prose Narratives | |
| Herskovits, Melville J. | |
| History and Cultural Identity: The Chokwe | |
| History and Folklore: The Luba | |
| History and Religious Rituals: Bemba Traditions | |
| Housing, African American Traditions | |
| Hunting: Aka Net Hunting | |
| Identity and Folklore: The Kunda | |
| Ideophones | |
| Indian Ocean Islands: The Process of Creolization | |
| Initiation | |
| Institutional Study of African Folklore | |
| Insults and Ribald Language | |
| Islamic Brotherhoods: Baye Fall and Yengu, A Mouride Spirituality | |
| Japanese Study of African Folklore | |
| Jews of Ethiopia | |
| Jokes and Humor | |
| Joking Relationships | |
| Kenya | |
| Kwanzaa | |
| Languages | |
| Languages: Africanisms in the Americas | |
| Legends: East Africa | |
| Lesotho | |
| Libation | |
| Liberia | |
| Libraries | |
| Libya | |
| Linguistics and African Verbal Arts | |
| Madagascar | |
| Maghrib (northwestern North Africa) | |
| Maghrib: Algeria | |
| Maghrib: Berber Peoples: Their Language and Folklore | |
| Malagasy Folklore and its Study | |
| Malawi | |
| Mali | |
| Mami Wata in Central Africa | |
| Mancala | |
| Maqalat: Concepts of Folklore in the Sudan | |
| Masks and Masquerades | |
| Masquerading by Women: Ejagham | |
| Mauritania | |
| Mauritius | |
| Medicine: Folk Medicine of the Hausa | |
| Medicine: Indigeneous Therapeutic Systems in Western Kenya | |
| Medicine: Overview | |
| Metallurgy and Folklore | |
| Morocco | |
| Mozambique | |
| Music and Dance: Uganda | |
| Music in Africa: Overview | |
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