Performing Wisdom : Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society.

This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Dipio, Dominica
Other Authors: Sillars, Stuart
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014
Series:Matatu, no. 42
Subjects:
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000ui 4500
001 in00000152153
006 m o d
007 cr |n|||||||||
008 140510s2014 ne ob 000 0 eng d
005 20240701204654.3
019 |a 876340903 
020 |a 9789401210584 
020 |a 9401210586 
020 |a 1306578884  |q (ebk) 
020 |a 9781306578882  |q (ebk) 
029 1 |a AU@  |b 000060077080 
029 1 |a DEBBG  |b BV044068205 
029 1 |a DEBSZ  |b 452530784 
035 |a (OCoLC)879551438  |z (OCoLC)876340903 
035 |a (OCoLC)ocn879551438 
037 |a 589139  |b MIL 
040 |a EBLCP  |b eng  |e pn  |c EBLCP  |d OCLCQ  |d YDXCP  |d IDEBK  |d CDX  |d OCLCF  |d DEBSZ  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d ZCU  |d MERUC  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCA  |d ICG  |d OCLCQ  |d DKC  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL 
043 |a f-ug--- 
050 4 |a PQ4034.A7 .D384 2014 
082 0 4 |a 808.59 
100 1 |a Dipio, Dominica. 
245 1 0 |a Performing Wisdom :  |b Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society. 
260 |a Amsterdam :  |b Editions Rodopi,  |c 2014. 
300 |a 1 online resource (402 pages) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Matatu,  |x 0932-9714 ;  |v no. 42 
500 |a Notes for Contributors. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls; Survival of the Fittest and Stories of Cannibalism; Mythical Implications in the OriginStories of the Baganda and Bagishu; The Concept of Heroism Among the Bunyoro; Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and TheirContemporary Parallels: The Madi of Uganda; Audience Perspectives on the MusicFestivals Phenomenon in Buganda; Proverbial Imagery in ContemporaryPolitical Discourse in Uganda; Riddling Among the Banyankoreand Baganda in Uganda. 
505 8 |a The Popular Form and Structureof Riddle Discourse in LusogaThe Potential Role of Oraturein Fighting the Spread of HIV/AIDS; ""Mudo"": The Soga 'Little Red Riding Hood'; Transplanting the Pumpkin: Folktales in NewMedia Formats for Children's Instruction; 'Heed my Voice': Children's Songin the Wake of Child Sacrifice; Afterword: Ancestral Voices Prophesying; Marketplace; Achebe's Fiction and the Changing Generation ofNigerian Women: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Leadership; Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of theResurrection Mythos in Soyinka's The Interpreters. 
505 8 |a The Àbikú Mystique: The Metaphor of Subversive Narrative in Buchi Emecheta's KehindeRichard Maduku's Kokoro Compound: A Postmodern Reading; The Violation of Women's Human Rights:Transformative Processes in Julie Okoh's Edewedeand Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's Brain Has No Gender; The Fatal Voyage: Colonialism as Tragedyin Steve Chimombo's Writing; ""The Religion of the Dream"": Colonial Myths and the Epistemology of Power in Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge; Creative Writing; Born to Run; Three Poems; Reviews; Up Jumped a Jumbie; Destructive Deluge; Books Received; Notes on Contributors. 
520 |a This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in importance to 'literature'. A major focus was the ways in which forms of orature can be made relevant to the demands of rapidly developing nations faced with insistent problems (HIV/AIDS, administrative needs, shifts in social and familial structure, the changing roles of women). Both innovative. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
590 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b Ebook Central Academic Complete 
650 0 |a Folklore  |z Uganda. 
651 0 |a Uganda  |x Social life and customs. 
700 1 |a Sillars, Stuart. 
758 |i has work:  |a Performing wisdom (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGBryjqtPMjHXktrpMtvpd  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Dipio, Dominica.  |t Performing Wisdom : Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society.  |d Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2014  |z 9789042038110 
852 |b E-Collections  |h ProQuest 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=1686936  |z Full text (MCPHS users only)  |t 0 
938 |a Coutts Information Services  |b COUT  |n 28026825 
938 |a EBL - Ebook Library  |b EBLB  |n EBL1686936 
938 |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection  |b IDEB  |n cis28026825 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 11713430 
947 |a FLO  |x pq-ebc-base 
999 f f |s ecb18b99-a043-44bb-887d-e30961fade2e  |i 3037749e-3e5e-411e-b123-24ed9b91df4d  |t 0 
952 f f |a Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences  |b Online  |c Online  |d E-Collections  |t 0  |e ProQuest  |h Other scheme 
856 4 0 |t 0  |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=1686936  |y Full text (MCPHS users only)