The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

Tales That Come, Tales That Go

By:

Walter E A Van Beek

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Paperback / softback

Series:

African Histories and Modernities

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This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of this oral transmission. The comparison between the two corpuses shows that folktales are a much more dynamic cultural system than is usually thought. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than others, reflect social change and intergroup contact, but also depend on characteristics of the tales themselves. Cognitive approaches of memory shed light on these varieties of transmission, as do performance aspects in tale telling, in particular ideophones.

Author Biography:

Walter E.A. van Beek is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University and Leiden University, the Netherlands, and has performed extensive fieldwork among the Kapsiki-Higi. His recent publications are The Dancing Dead. Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi (2012) and The Forge and the Funeral; the Smith in Kapsiki/Higi Culture (2015).

Release date NZ

December 12th, 2018

Author

Walter E A Van Beek

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

9 Illustrations, color; 5 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 170 p. 14 illus., 9 illus. in color.

Pages

170

Series

African Histories and Modernities

ISBN-13

9781349958894

Product ID

28998073

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