Griots and Griottes
Subtitle: Masters of Words and Music
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780253334589
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Customs & folklore; Indigenous peoples; Oral history; Oral And Folk Literature; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Performing Arts; Sociology; Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Folklore & Mythology - Storytelling; General; Folklore & Mythology; Griots; Laudatory poetry, African; Oral tradition; Storytelling
First sentence: Because the terms historian and storyteller reveal only part of the story of griot, translators and scholars have often adopted another word from the list of griot activities to describe the profession: praise-singer (Laye, 1954; Kourouma, 1981; Irwin, 1981; Ebron, 1993).