A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

"... a major addition to the literature on oral traditions.

This book presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most powerful and least understood social groups.

This book explores how four leading thinkers--Su Shih, Shao Yung, Ch'eng I, and Chu Hsi--applied the I Ching to these projects. These four men used the Book of Changes in strikingly different ways.

This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War.

This book explores the incongruencies among traditions and focuses on the qualities specific to certain oral and oral-derived works.

This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture.

The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century,to be witnessed inphenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more ...

The book should be of value to African studies scholars, anthropologists, and historians of Africa, colonialism, empire, and post-colonialism.