Suriname Folk-lore

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NOTES ON THE CULTURE OF THE PARAMARIBO NEGROES 1 General Considerations
1
The KotoMissi
3
Daily Life
9
Marriage and Divorce
16
Lǝbisingi
30
Mati and the Birthday Party
32
BirthCustoms and the Dangers of Early Child hood
35
The Soul
44
Snake and Toad
281
Baboon Teaches Dog to Climb
283
Incriminating Song
285
the Feast on the Mountain and the Feast Under the Water
287
and the Feast Under the Water
289
FoodTaboo Pretext
291
Watcher Tricked
293
Cockroach Revenged on Anansi
295

Fiofio
53
Divination
55
Gods and Familiar Spirits a The Nature of the Winti
61
b The Worship of the Winti
70
c Winti Maladies and Winti Cures
82
d A Wintidance
86
Magic Good and Evil a Obia the Tapu and the Opo
99
b Wisi and Bakru
103
The Spirits of the Dead a The Yorka as an Ancestor
109
b The Yorka as an Enemy Ghost
111
STORIES RIDDLES PROVERBS AND DREAMS A Introduction 1 Data and Informants
114
Orthography
116
Linguistic Notes
117
Notes on Proverbs
135
Notes on Riddles
137
The Telling of the Tales
138
Titling
146
Arrangement of Bibliographic Notes
147
B Tales from Paramaribo
149
Chain of Victims
151
Chain of Victims
153
Escape Inside Gourd The Talking Gourd
157
How Slavery Began
159
Anansi and Rabbit
161
How Anansi Came by Eight Legs
163
Why Anansis Thighs are Thin
165
God Above
167
God Above
169
A Lie Hurts More than a Wound
171
Gun is Dead
173
Tiger Plays Dead
175
Tiger Plays Dead Bone for a Stump
177
Gifts from the Dead Fatal Imitation
179
Monkeys Urine is Sweet
183
Bone for a Stump
187
Anansi Uses a Cudgel
189
Tug of War
191
Relay Race
193
Enemy as Judge
195
Fling Me
197
Anansi Rides Tiger
199
Anansi Rides Tiger
201
Anansi Rides Tiger
203
The Earth Has Teeth
207
The Greed Test The Earth Has Teeth
209
The PepperEating Test
213
Incriminating Song The Killing Hot Bath
215
Tables Turned
217
Killing Tigers Children
219
Till Nothing Remains
221
Pot and Whip
223
The Magic Whip
225
Anansis Wife Can Figure
227
How the Madungu Disease Spread
229
Anansi Disguises as a Baby
231
Anansi Disguises as a Baby
235
Anansi Disguises as a White Man
237
Tricks the Priest
241
Tricks his Mother
243
Contortion as Disguise
245
Magic Against Gossip
247
Trading with Death
249
Bargaining with Death
251
Playing Sick
253
Three Slaves for Three Grains of Corn
255
Half a Village for Two Chickens
257
How Wisdom was Spread
267
Killing Magic Bird
269
Killing Magic Bird How Obia Spread
271
Aboma Kills Anansi
273
Cat as King of Rats
275
Why Dog Goes About Naked
277
Kills Father Tiger
279
Purge to Catch Thief
297
Snake Gives Beauty
301
Pointing Kills
303
Animal Gratitude and Human Duplicity
305
Animal Gratitude and Human Duplicity
307
Animal Gratitude and Human Duplicity
309
The Reward for Good is the Cudgel
311
The Prince Who Changed into a Bird
313
Cinderella Magic Whip
317
Devil Files his Tongue
323
Flight up the Tree
325
Magic Flight
327
Magic Flight
333
Magic Flight
341
Giants Cure Boastfulness
345
The Boastful Drummer
347
the Brandingiron
351
The Stupid Wife
353
Spreading the Fingers
355
Take My Place
357
Take My Place
359
The Unknown Sister
363
Fate of King NothingHurts Him
369
Secret Name Jealous Sisters
375
The Sleeping Prince
381
Rumpelstiltskin
383
Man Plays MaidServant
385
The Man Who Understood Animal Speech
389
Divulging Answer to Riddle
391
The Jealous Father Mothers Treachery
393
Priests Deception Sleepingmat Test
401
Wealth from a Pot of Honey
413
The Fastidious Go Hungry
415
Master Liar
417
The Devil Complains
419
All Things Talk
421
Disciplining a Drum
423
Winti Adangras Magic
425
Yorka Teeth
427
A Card Yorka
429
Exorcising a Yorka
431
Riddles
433
Takitaki Proverbs
453
E Proverbs of the Saramacca BushNegroes
473
F Dreams
483
MUSIC
487
A General Statement B Musicological Analysis 1 Introductory Remarks
491
The Music of the BushNegroes a Tonal Range
494
b Melodic Movement
495
c Absence of Halftones
496
d Intervals
497
e Combinations of Thirds
498
f Combinations of Fourths
500
g The Pentatypes of Modal Structures
501
h The Hexatypes of Modal Structures
503
i The Heptatypes of Modal Structures
505
j Falsetto
507
c Heptatype
517
Musical Instruments
520
E Notes on the Recording of the Songs
524
Religious Songs
531
a Twin Songs
571
Songs in Stories
611
Religious Songs
629
v Vodų fō Grọn
661
x Tonɛ
667
aa Dagowe
674
cc Bakru
683
Religious Songs
703
APPENDICES
711
Population of Suriname by Racial Type and Religious
759
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Informazioni sull'autore (1969)

Melville Jean Herskovits, an American anthropologist who was a student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, became a leading student of acculturation and an outstanding teacher at Northwestern University, where he founded the first U.S. program in African Studies in 1951. He did work in Surinam, Haiti, Trinidad, and Brazil, but his major research was on African blacks and the forced relocation of their culture to the New World. He studied religion, music, and folklore, and was particularly interested in how culture influences the arts.

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