This dissertation investigates Wolof Sufi oral narrative structure and its relationship with the context of production of the narratives. The findings of this study indicate that the structure of these narratives is characterized by (1) the salience of the complicating action, (…
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This dissertation analyzes changes in social identity from the distant past to the early colonial years in the western Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania, through an interpretation of oral tradition. My analysis of the core spatial images of oral tradition demonstrates the link be…
From its very inception, Spanish literature has recognized a commingly of the literary and the popular in a relationship that could be defined as symbiotic. From earliest times, this bonding was evident in the muwassahas or stanzas written in classical Arabic that were integrate…
What does it mean for a "people" to have a potential voice in a political environment of authoritarian repression? Here I look specifically at the cultural production and performance of improvisational poetry as a form of "folklore" within the context of retraditionalization in …
The Moroccan Andalusian music has survived for more than half a millennium in North Africa by virtue of both oral and written processes of presentation and transmission, a characteristic referred to as mixed orality. The two types of process can coexist within the tradition beca…
This dissertation is about the architecture of the Swahili peoples living along the eastern coast of Africa. Specifically, it explores the links and relationships between oral . traditions, rituals and the built environment of the Waswahili (sing. Mswahili ) or the 'people of th…
The oral tradition of any native community is considered as cornerstone and a powerful tool for the members. The Cherokee and the Negev tribes have long histories of oral traditions that are important for their members and their survival. The significant aspect of examining both…
My dissertation explores the interdependent connection between African oral tradition and traditional African healing strategies found in storytelling in Chicago. In examining a nonprofit based in Chicago that offers cultural education through political resistance oral narrative…
This dissertation is on the citations in early Islamic sources of documents said to have been written or dictated by the Prophet Muh[dotbelow]ammad (∼570-632 CE). These documents include contracts, grants of land, and diplomatic and personal letters. While documentary evidence f…