Kasena Riddles: A Study of Kasena Literature and Culture - Couverture souple

Awedoba, Albert K.

 
9783843352703: Kasena Riddles: A Study of Kasena Literature and Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3843352704 ISBN 13 : 9783843352703
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This publication is on the riddles of the Kasena people of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Some of these people can also be found in southern Burkina Faso. For Kasena people riddles have been an important aspect of their cultural existence. Riddles are the means by which knowledge and wisdom, as Kasena saw it, and still see it, were passed down the generations. Riddles, though of anonymous authorship enshrine for these people, the ways of the world, as they comment on human and animal behavior, relationships, and on events taking place in the social and physical environment. Riddles are coined from critical observations of life and of nature itself. This author's objective is to explain the meanings of a collection of riddles by situating the riddles in their appropriate cultural and historical matrices. The argument is that even from apparent nonsense and non-sense, sense and meaning can be derived or distilled. However, to do this requires an appreciation of the people's culture and outlook to arrive at the literal meaning of riddle statements and from there to penetrate the underlying structure.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This publication is on the riddles of the Kasena people of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Some of these people can also be found in southern Burkina Faso. For Kasena people riddles have been an important aspect of their cultural existence. Riddles are the means by which knowledge and wisdom, as Kasena saw it, and still see it, were passed down the generations. Riddles, though of anonymous authorship enshrine for these people, the ways of the world, as they comment on human and animal behavior, relationships, and on events taking place in the social and physical environment. Riddles are coined from critical observations of life and of nature itself. This author's objective is to explain the meanings of a collection of riddles by situating the riddles in their appropriate cultural and historical matrices. The argument is that even from apparent nonsense and non-sense, sense and meaning can be derived or distilled. However, to do this requires an appreciation of the people's culture and outlook to arrive at the literal meaning of riddle statements and from there to penetrate the underlying structure.

Biographie de l'auteur

Albert K. Awedoba, professor and former Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Obtained his D. Phil. from the Oxford University?s School of Social Anthropology in 1985. His background is in linguistics and social anthropology and his area of special interest is the languages and societies of Northern Ghana.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843352704
ISBN 13 
9783843352703
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
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