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The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59485-3

ISBN: 978-1-349-94927-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 4, 2016

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Tales at Two Times

van Beek, Walter E. A.

Pages: 1 –21

[In the study of folktales three characteristics strike the eye: the comparative attitude, the encyclopedic thrust in collecting and cataloguing, and a nostalgic notion of culture loss. Comparison is at the heart of folklore, that is, bridging time and space in any measure and with any means. In...
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Grouping the Tales

van Beek, Walter E. A.

Pages: 23 –41

[Dividing the tales into genre groups is a common practice in folklore studies,2 mainly in order to make a huge mass of tales accessible. Though this holds good for the Kapsiki corpus as well, grouping the tales is more than an expedient of presentation and will prove to be crucial for analytical...
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The Tales, Old and New

van Beek, Walter E. A.

Pages: 43 –103

[It is time now to take a look at the tales themselves. Given our fourfold division into genres, a selection of tales will pass muster in order to highlight the core of each genre with its characteristic actors, story lines, plots, and outcomes, be they etiological, moral or otherwise. In order...
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Tales That Went, Tales That Came

van Beek, Walter E. A.

Pages: 105 –119

[Thus far I have made little distinction between the two sets of tales, those from 1972 and 2008, but have concentrated on the general characteristics of both sets. Let us look at the differences now. First, I will compare the content of the rhena heca in both samples, an exercise which demands...
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Remembering Folktales

van Beek, Walter E. A.

Pages: 121 –148

[All in all, the shifts are not monumental, and the difference between the 1972 and 2008 sets is one of degree, not of kind. True, only half of the tales are the same, but the new stories are still folktales, recognizable either as identical tales or as tales that easily fit into the rhena heca,...

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