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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Belcher was born in Cairo, Egypt, and spent much of his childhood in Africa and Europe. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has taught in the history department at Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-editor (with John W. Johnson and Thomas Hale) of Voices from a Vast Continent: Oral Epics from Africa , and the author of Epic Traditions of Africa . He is currently teaching at the University of Kankan in the Republic of Guinea. Klappentext Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here concern origins-whether of the universe, peoples or families. Together, they create a kaleidoscopic picture of the rich and varied oral traditions that have shaped the culture and society of successive generations of Africans for thousands of years, throughout the long struggle to survive and explore this massive and environmentally diverse continent. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung Gathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. All the narratives found here concern origins - whether of the universe, peoples or families. Inhaltsverzeichnis African Myths of Origin Introduction A Note on the Text List of Maps Part I. Some General Themes Stories About Hunters 1. The San Peoples of Southern Africa 2. Pygmies of The Central African Forests 3. The Songhay Hunters of the Niger River 4. The Origin of Hunters' Associations: Sanen and Kontron of the Manden 5. How Hunters Learned about Magic 6. The Animal Bride I: The Changed Skin 7. The Animal Bride II: Sirankomi The Cattle-Herders 8. Khoi-Khoi Cattle Stories 9. Fulbe Stories of Cattle 10. The Maasai of East Africa 11. The Great Lakes I: The Origin of Cattle (Rwanda) 12. The Great Lakes II: The Story of Wamara (BaHaya) 13. The Chagga of East Africa: Murile Tricksters 14. Uthlakanyana, the Zulu Child Trickster 15. Stories of Moni-Mambu of the BaKongo 16. Ture, the Zande Trickster 17. Eshu of the Yoruba 18. Legba of the Fon 19. Ananse the Spider, of the Ashanti Part II. Stories of Kingdoms and Peoples Ancient Africa 20. Egyptian Stories 21. Ethiopia Peoples of the Upper Nile and East Africa 22. The Oromo of Southern Ethiopia 23. The Shilluk of Southern Sudan 24. The Luo of Sudan and Uganda 25. The Gikuyu of Kenya 26. The Swahili of the Coast Kingdoms of the Great Lakes 27. The Kingdom of Bunyoro 28. The Kingdom of Buganda 29. The Kingdom of Rwanda 30. The Kingdom of Burundi Central East Africa 31. Nsong'a Lianja, Hero of the Mongo 32. The Kuba Kingdom of the Bushoong: Mboom and Woot 33. The First Kings of the Luba 34. The Kingdoms of the Lunda 35. The Bemba of Zambia The Peoples of Southern Africa 36. The Shona of Zimbabwe 37. The Nguni Peoples of Southern Africa: Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi 38. The ...
