The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in Southern Ethiopia

Modes of Construction and Preservation of History among People without Writing

Chikage Oba-Smidt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

600 Seiten

2016
Lit Verlag
978-3-643-90521-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book deals with the Boorana people in southern Ethiopia who do not have a tradition of writing. However, for over 600 years, they have passed down rich and detailed historical narratives, which form a highly elaborated Oral Chronicle. Herein lies a great mystery. How did they share and pass down this history without using any writing system? The purpose of this book is to answer this question. This book documents and discusses the cultural and socio-political mechanisms of constructing and preserving historical memories, and presents a complete text of the Oral Chronicle of the Boorana, based on a rigid comparison of oral sources.

Autor

Chikage Oba-Smidt is currently a JSPS Research Fellow at Osaka Prefectural University, Japan.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Northeast African History, Orality and Heritage
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 169 x 238 mm
• Gewicht: 1509 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Äthiopien; Völkerkunde • Borana • Oral History
• ISBN-10: 3-643-90521-1 / 3643905211
• ISBN-13: 978-3-643-90521-5 / 9783643905215
• Zustand: Neuware