The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

From: Journal of American Folklore | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature. By Peter Seitel. (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 22.) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 248, bibliographical references, index.)

This study is an attempt to "operationalize genre as an interpretive instrument" (p. 224). It offers the results of a journey of discovery for Peter Seitel as a collector and editor of Haya heroic ballads from Tanzania. In an effort to understand the material better, Seitel noticed connections with the Haya folktales he had already collected and edited under the title See So That We ...

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