title: Genres of the Oral Tradition of the Manden Peoples (West Africa)
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metadata.value: Zavjalova, Olga Yu.
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metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:07:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:07:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Zavjalova O. Yu. Genres of the Oral Tradition of the Manden Peoples (West Africa). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 529–541.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.408
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16960
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metadata.value: This article is devoted to the problem of the Manden oral literature genres’ classification. The
  first thing that we believe to be important in studying the cultural and psychological characteristics
  of any people and its folklore it is the task to put ourselves in the position of these
  people. We have to understand what they themselves conclude to be this or that institution or
  instrument, what they mean to be a particular concept. The main task is to examine the own
  definition of oral tradition genres by Manden peoples themselves; identifying what underlies
  the division of texts into genres. In this study, we relied on both oral and written sources; we
  examined the genres of Bamana, Maninka and Dyula peoples, inhabiting Mali, Guinea and
  Cote d’Ivoire. The division into genres accepted in modern science is too universal and it does
  not correspond to African cultures. First of all, the Manden peoples classify genres according
  to their degree of importance, i. e. significance for the tradition, which is associated with the
  functionality and genre’s ceremonialism. At the same time, it is the texts including a large
  amount of magical energy Nyama. As for Bamana and Maninka, where there is an institute of
  griots, the most significant texts are those that can only be performed by griots (epic, fasa), the
  age and status restrictions for the performer are an indicator of the text significance also. The
  most important texts are those that tell us about the origin of a clan, village, person, object,
  etc., and those that contain words with nyama magic energy. The article describes the words
  characterizing the genres of folklore in Bamana and Maninka languages, as well as Dyula
  Kong, and the specifics of their using. For a better understanding of the Manding terms, the
  article also presents the names of Dogon folklore genres in the Tengu and Bamana languages.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oral tradition
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: genres
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: manden
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Genres of the Oral Tradition of the Manden Peoples (West Africa)
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metadata.value: Article
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