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Voice and power : culture and languages in North-East Africa / essays in honour of B.W. Andrzejewski / edited by R.J. Hayward and I.M. Lewis.

By: Andrzejewski, Bogomil Witalis
Contributor(s): Hayward, Richard J | Lewis, I. M | University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies
Language: English Publisher: London : School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996.Description: xxii, 287p. : music, tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 0728602571
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References: p.275-287. - Contents: Appendix: Writings of Bogomil Witalis Andrzejewski; I, Language and linguistics. Kailina: a "new" Agaw dialect / D.L. Appleyard; Nominal tone in western Aroma / R.J. Hayward, G. Megerssa; Head-markings and pronominal clitics in Somali / John Saeed; A moraic model of the prosodic phonology of Somali / M. Orwin; II, Oral culture, poetry and society. Musico-moro-syllabic relationships in the scansion of Somali poetry / John W. Johnson; Music and metre in Somali poetry / G. Banti, F. Giannattasio; Misappropriation of relief aid: dramatic expression by the Gadabursi refugees in Teferiber camp of Ethiopia / Ahmed Yusuf Farah; An introduction to humour and jokes in Somali culture / C.L. Geshekter, Said Ahmed Warsama; Somali's horse that feeds his master / S.S. Samatar; Women of the Zar and middle-class sensibilities in colonial Aden / L. Kapteijns, J. Spaulding; Boqor / M. Abdi-Mohamed; Rahanweyn sociability / B. Helander; Songs from the south / I.M. Lewis, M.H. Muktar; "The law then was not this law" / V. Luling; Oromo nationalist poetry / G. Schlee, A.A. Shongolo; On some Masqala and Dobo songs of the Macca Oromo / A. Triulzi; Notes on 'Afar verse structure / A. Zaborski; Afar praise poetry / D. Morin.

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