Anthropos: Anthropos, 69.1974

Anthropos, 69.1974

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711778

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711778

Persistent identifier:: 1510649436189

Title:: Anthropos, 69.1974

Year of Publication:: 1974

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 69, 1974, Heft 1-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Title:: The Bird Motif in Kaguru Folklore: Ten Texts (Tanzania)

Other person:: Beidelman, T. O.

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

The Bird Motif in Kaguru Folklore: Ten Texts (Tanzania) T. O. Beidelman Contents: I. The Man and His Child and the Bird II. The Man and the Bird III. The Man and His Two Wives and the Bird IV. The Man and the Bird V. The Man and His Two Sons VI. The Man and His Son and the Bird VII. The Man and His Child and the Bird VIII. The Three Men IX. The Man and Wife and Their Grinding-Stone X. The Man and the Wife of His Maternal Uncle and the Birds Over the past thirteen years I have been engaged in the publication of Kaguru folklore (cf. Bibliography). This task is still far from completed; however, even at this point certain motifs are clearly prominent: old women, oppressed younger children, trickster hares, villainous hyenas, cruel step mothers, unjust elders, all occupy morally negative or questionable posi tions within the general system of Kaguru ideology and tradition and there fore constitute important elements in the repertoire of any Kaguru storyteller. One such motif is that of a bird, and in this set of texts I briefly consider this in terms of various Kaguru tales and also within the wider context of certain other aspects of Kaguru thought. The broader aspects of Kaguru society may be discerned from other publications (19670; 1968c, 19716) and their contained bibliographies. Leach has rightly criticized those analysts who see symbolic motifs mainly at face value rather than in terms of their structural or modal signif icance (1966). He damns Eliade and other members of the JuNGian school who construct a kind of intellectual patchwork-quilt out of scattered symbolic artifacts plucked out of the contexts of their respective cosmologies. Thus,

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