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Article: "There's got to be a tortoise in it": Lore as the Conceptual Focus of Igbo Folklore
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- Southern Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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While historians get most of their information from archival documents, cultural anthropologists and folklorists collect theirs from orally transmitted accounts during face-to-face interaction with interviewers in the contexts of fieldwork. And folklorists consider the information that they collect and study to be traditional because their collections are based on accumulated conventions and models that "serve as evidence of continuities and consistencies through time and space in human knowledge, thought, belief and feeling."1 For decades, folklorists have focused on the classification and formal, process-centered analysis of their study objects. This paper frames the analysis of folktales ...
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