Handicapped heroes, Sambilo the bull, and the treacherous terrain of polygynous relations in southern Madagascar
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25 mars 2013
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Sarah Fee, « Handicapped heroes, Sambilo the bull, and the treacherous terrain of polygynous relations in southern Madagascar », Études océan Indien, ID : 10.4000/oceanindien.1403
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Twenty years ago in this same journal, folklorist Lee Haring (1987) expanded on his earlier lament (1982) that social scientists in their analyses of Malagasy tales tended to focus solely on the context (social and historic) to the exclusion of the text (internal narrative). He judiciously advised scholars that before they plum a tale for empiric detail or symbolic meaning they need first consider its narrative qualities and whether a motif (such as the tree planted as a life token) is not in...