Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro - African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana

Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.

List of contents

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

Maps

A Note: On Personal Names and on the Transcription of Jie Words

Personal Names and Places and Some Common Words

Introduction

Part I

Chapter One: Jie Past and Present: Ecology, Economy, Guns, and State

Chapter Two: Ethnography of Storytelling

Part II

Chapter Three Patterns and Images of Historical Tradition

Chapter Four: The Jie Landscaper, Memory, and Historical Tradition

Chapter Five: Historical Tradition and Poetic Persuasion of Pastness

Part III

Chapter Six: The Return of Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro

Chapter Seven: The Significance of Nayeche and the Grey Bull Engiro Oral Tradition in a Jie Storyteller’s Autobiography

Conclusion

Part IV

The Stories

Bibliography

Notes

About the author

By Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler

Summary

Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2014
• EAN: 9781442648661
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4866-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Anthropological Horizons; Anthropological Horizons
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories