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Petit dictionnaire de mythologie populaire roumaine
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ISSN: 12777749 ISBN: 2843100364 2377471145 9782843100369 Year: 2002 Publisher: Grenoble Ellug

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À la croisée des mondes romans et slaves, la Roumanie est l'extraordinaire conservatoire d'un imaginaire ancestral que reflètent mythes, légendes et rituels. Malgré la christianisation des faits et des personnages souvent transformés en saints, le substrat préchrétien affleure en permanence. En s'appuyant sur un vaste corpus de textes, Ion Taloș nous donne ici un aperçu de la richesse de ces témoignages peu connus en Europe occidentale. Grâce à lui, nous découvrons les structures mentales d'un monde essentiellement rural où tout est objet d'interrogations et d'explications, depuis l'origine de la Création jusqu'à celle des animaux, des plantes ou des intempéries. D'étonnants parallèles avec la littérature médiévale romane permettent de mieux saisir l'évolution des anciens mythes et des croyances d'autrefois, et c'est là une des grandes richesses de ce livre.


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Tidsskrift for kulturforskning : TfK.
ISSN: 23876727 15027473 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oslo : Novus forlag,

A Saudi tribal history : honour and faith in the traditions of the Dawāsir
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ISBN: 9004098941 9004101020 9004112766 9004125825 9004144218 Year: 2002 Publisher: Leiden Brill

Performing Africa
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ISBN: 0691074895 0691074887 9786612158544 1282158546 1400825210 9781400825219 9780691074887 9780691074894 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.

Folklore and folklife in the United Arab Emirates
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ISBN: 0415616395 1315028689 1136849149 1136849076 9781136849145 9781136849077 0700714138 9780700714131 9781315028682 9781136849213 9780415616393 Year: 2002 Publisher: London

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A unique description and analysis of the domains and genres of UAE folklore, including folk customs and beliefs, traditional arts and crafts, folk dances, folk narratives and proverbs. Challenging the established meaning of folklife, this volume also deals with folklore in public life, in the mass media, in education and in politics.

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