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The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a “cradle land” in the plains of Turkana. In
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler shows how the poetic journey of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro and their metaphorical return during the Jie harvest rituals gives rise to stories, imagery, and the articulation of ethnic and individual identities.
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. Mirzeler’s work contributes significantly to the anthropology of storytelling, the study of myth and memory, and the use of oral tradition in historical studies.
Sommario
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
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Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler is an associate professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University.
Riassunto
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.
