Allegories of the Wilderness Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives [Hardcover]

... a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... Research in African Literatures

Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Form and Play in Kuranko Fiction
3. During a Time of Great Hunger
4. Hare and Hyena
5. Prevented Transitions
6. Reciprocities
7. Men and Women
8. Co-Wives, Orphans, and Miraculous Interventions
9. Directions

Appendix
Notes
Glossary of Kuranko Words
References
List of Narratives
Index

Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).