Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives

Author:   Michael Jackson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253304711


Pages:   340
Publication Date:   22 November 1982
Format:   Hardback
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"... a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... "" -Research in African Literatures Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature."

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Author:   Michael Jackson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9780253304711


ISBN 10:   0253304717
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   22 November 1982
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Form and Play in Kuranko Fiction 3. During a Time of Great Hunger 4. Hare and Hyena 5. Prevented Transitions 6. Reciprocities 7. Men and Women 8. Co-Wives, Orphans, and Miraculous Interventions 9. Directions Appendix Notes Glossary of Kuranko Words References List of Narratives Index

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Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).

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