Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- PREFACE
- PART I THE ORAL LITERATURE OF THE TATARS
- PART II THE ORAL LITERATURE OF POLYNESIA
- PART III NOTES ON THE ORAL LITERATURE OF SOME AFRICAN PEOPLES
- 1 ABYSSINIA
- 2 THE GALLA
- 3 THE NORTHERN BANTU
- 4 THE YORUBA
- 5 THE TUAREG
- A NOTE ON ENGLISH BALLAD POETRY
- PART IV A GENERAL SURVEY
- INDEX
4 - THE YORUBA
from PART III - NOTES ON THE ORAL LITERATURE OF SOME AFRICAN PEOPLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2015
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- PREFACE
- PART I THE ORAL LITERATURE OF THE TATARS
- PART II THE ORAL LITERATURE OF POLYNESIA
- PART III NOTES ON THE ORAL LITERATURE OF SOME AFRICAN PEOPLES
- 1 ABYSSINIA
- 2 THE GALLA
- 3 THE NORTHERN BANTU
- 4 THE YORUBA
- 5 THE TUAREG
- A NOTE ON ENGLISH BALLAD POETRY
- PART IV A GENERAL SURVEY
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. 644 - 653Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1940