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Storytelling in Northern Zambia, 1988 - 89


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Video

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Authors

Cancel, Robert 

Abstract

Storytelling performances collected in 1988-89 from five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups: Bemba, Bisa, Bwile, Lunda and Tabwa. Soundtrack is in original language with English subtitles. Video material is the basis of a book-length study titled Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2013, in the Oral Literature series, co-sponsored by the World Oral Literature Project).

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Digital video of storytelling performances from five Bemba-speaking groups in Zambia.

Keywords

Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Performance, Fictional narratives, Personal narratives

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World Oral Literature Project

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UC San Diego