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Proverbs are the significant aspects of everyday communications of African peoples. However, these social and cultural treasures of the various ethnic groups of the continent have not been studied and publicized properly. This work is a contribution to the attempt to develop research and publication of African folklore. It is based on the data collected through fieldwork carried in Guji-Oromo Society in southern Ethiopian from where materials of proverbs were recorded along with the active social and cultural contexts of interactions. What makes the contents of this work different from other…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Proverbs are the significant aspects of everyday
communications of African peoples. However, these
social and cultural treasures of the various ethnic
groups of the continent have not been studied and
publicized properly. This work is a contribution to
the attempt to develop research and publication of
African folklore. It is based on the data collected
through fieldwork carried in Guji-Oromo Society in
southern Ethiopian from where materials of proverbs
were recorded along with the active social and
cultural contexts of interactions. What makes the
contents of this work different from other
publications in folklore is that it embodies the
functions and meanings of proverbs in particular
contexts of social interactions among people with
rich oral traditions. The communicative power of
proverbs and the relevance of their meaning in
regulating the established norms and values as well
as knowledge and philosophy of the Guji-Oromo
society are well demonstrated. The work is
significant for researchers, students and readers in
Folklore, Social Anthropology, Literature,
Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics,
philosophy and Social psychology.
Autorenporträt
Tadesse Jaleta Jirata graduated with MA in Literature from Addis
Ababa University and worked as Lecturer and Researcher at Dilla
University in Ethiopia. Currently, he is a PhD student in
Interdisciplinary Child Research at NTNU in Norway with his
research focus on Guji-Oromo Oral Narratives