Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives

by Michael Jackson

Overview

" . . . 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253304711
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	11/22/1982
Series:	African Systems of Thought
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1200L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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).

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