Author: Haring, Lee
Title: Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective
Description: Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, ix, 242 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. Dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Malagasy Lore & Folk; Riddling: Question and Answer; Proverbs: Dialogue in Monologue; Proposition and Response: The Merina 'Hainteny'; Marriage: Petition & Delivery; Funeral Oratory: Living & Dead.

Keywords: Malagasy Oral Literature, Madagascar Social, Malgache Cultural, Anthropology Folk, Ethnography, Ethnology Culture, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric Folklore, Literary History