Limba Stories and Story-Telling

by Ruth H. Finnegan

The Limba are rice farmers of northern Sierra Leone. This detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Ruth Finnegan, emphasizes the importance of actual delivery in these orally transmitted tales, the part played by the story-teller, and the changing forms arising from the originality of individual narrators.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313227233
• ISBN13: 9780313227233
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.