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Publication details [#23481]

McNaughton, Patrick R. 1988. The semantics of `Jugu': Blacksmiths, lore and who's `bad' in Mande. Anthropological Linguistics 30 (2) : 150–165.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

M. argues that the application of Judeo-Christian notions of morality to characters and situations of Mande oral tradition has caused misinterpretations, and that a better understanding of these traditions can be reached by applying Mande concepts of `means' and `power' in their study.