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Book/Printed Material Storytelling in northern Zambia : theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions

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Title

  • Storytelling in northern Zambia : theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions

Summary

  • "Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia in in man other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalized audio and video recordings into the texst enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives."--Publisher's description.

Names

  • Cancel, Robert, author

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2013.

Headings

  • -  Oral tradition--Zambia
  • -  Storytelling--Zambia
  • -  African languages
  • -  Anthropology
  • -  Folklore, myths and legends
  • -  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing
  • -  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric
  • -  Oral tradition
  • -  Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge
  • -  REFERENCE--Writing Skills
  • -  Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • -  SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural
  • -  Society and culture: general
  • -  Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
  • -  Sociology and anthropology
  • -  Storytelling
  • -  Zambia

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  "World Oral Literature Project"--Cover.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and index.
  • -  © 2013 Robert Cancel, Foreword © 2013 Mark Turin. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY 3.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made the respective authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Further details available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 External
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 07, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LB1042

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019467800

OCLC Number

  • 878145068

Reproduction Number

  • 22573/ctt5qrc0n

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Cancel, Robert, Author. Storytelling in northern Zambia: theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019467800/.

APA citation style:

Cancel, R. (2013) Storytelling in northern Zambia: theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019467800/.

MLA citation style:

Cancel, Robert, Author. Storytelling in northern Zambia: theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019467800/>.