orature (volume e). 1850 world literacy rate: 10 percent 1920s world literacy rate: 28 percent pio...
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Orature (Volume E)
• 1850 world literacy rate: 10 percent
• 1920s world literacy rate: 28 percent
• Pio Zirimu
• agrarian versus urban society
• Grimm brothers, fairytale preservation
• colonization—control or conservation?
• Willem Bleek, Kung peoples
Background
Germany: Three Spinners
England: Tom Tit Tot
Ireland: “A Donegal Fairy” and “The Brewery of Egg-Shells”
Anansi Stories: Ghana, Jamaica, United States
U.S. Slave Story
U.S. Slave Spirituals and Secular Songs
Malagasy Wisdom Poetry
“Since the rule of these despotic chiefs, Ka-u has become noted as a land where everyone looks out for himself and his own family” (p. 943).
Hawaiian Folktale
Navajo Ceremony
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