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Ants will not eat your fingers : a selection of traditional African poems / edited by Leonard W. Doob

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Editor:
Doob, Leonard W (Leonard William) 1909-2000  Search this
Physical description:
127 pages 23 cm
Type:
Translations into English
Folk poetry
Poetry
Musical texts
Poetry genre
Translations
Date:
1966
[1966]
Notes:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Battle Hymn / J.H. Driberg -- Cradle Songs / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- A Song of the Minstrels / J.B. Danquah -- Dancing Song / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Love Songs / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Elegy for Duodu, A Brave Man / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Evalation / J.G. Christaller -- Song for an Absent Chief / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Hunting Song / B. Stefaniszyn -- Household Song / Sylvia Pankhurst -- Antiphony / T. Edward Bowdich -- Chant for Girls During Puberty Ceremony / R.S. Rattray -- Perspective / R.S. Rattray -- Songs Before Clitoridectomy Rites / A.M. Vergiat -- Songs During Circumcision Rites for Boys / A.M. Vergiat -- Lullaby / Ch. Beart -- Initiation Song of Girls / Audrey I. Richards -- Hunting Prayer / Viktor Lebzelter -- The Sun's Curse Upon the Horse / James A. Honey -- Prayer for the Star Canopus / Dorothea F. Bleek -- Song for the Lazy / Dugald Campbell -- Children's Song / Bruno Gutmann -- Morning Prayer / Bruno Gutmann -- Tributes to the Chief / Bruno Gutmann -- Chorus Sung by Co-Wives to One Another / Melville J. Herskovits -- Dirge / Frances Herskovits -- Ditty for a Child Losing His First Tooth / Melville J. Herskovits -- Song to the Envious / Frances Herskovits -- Hymn of Propitiation / J.H. Driberg -- Song for Dance of Young Girls / J.H. Driberg -- War Song / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Funeral Hymns / Friedrich Ebding -- Lamentation / Johannes Ittmann -- Complaints / Paul Wiegrabe -- Dolor / Diedrich Westermann -- The Sorrows of Death Paul Wiegrabe -- Yearning / Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortti -- Distracting an Opponent in a Game of Skill / Gunter Tessmann -- Invocation to the Spirit of the Race / R.P.H. Trilles -- Chain-Rhyme / D.W. Arnott -- Blessings Upon an Infant / M.J, Field -- In Honor of a King Who Acquired Several Young Wives / Apolo Kagwa -- Maternal Advise to Young Parrots / Akiki K. Nyabongo -- Song of the Turtle / Mike Joslin -- The Farmer / Wolf Leslau -- Wail of One Rejected / Rudolf Prietze -- Praise Song for a Drummer / Mary Smith -- Song / Hugh Tracey -- Girl's Song / A.C. Jordan -- Civil War Song / Leonhard Schultze -- Love Song / Leonhard Schultze -- To Doves / D.F.v.d. Merwe -- Love Song for Nneka / D.C. Osadebay -- On Truth / J.R. Patterson -- Praise Songs for Various Chiefs and Sultans / J.R. Patterson -- Lullaby of an Abandoned Mother / I. Schapera -- Songs Accompanying Healing Magic / Jomo Kenyatta -- Girl's Secret Love Song / J.G. Peristiany -- Hymn to God / J. Van Wing -- Incantation During Initiation Into a Secret Society / J. Van Wing -- Rain-Making Litany / J.H. Driberg -- Songs for the Rain Festival / J.H. Driberg -- Prayer to Ancestral Spirits / Gunter Wagner -- Mother's Song / Esther Warner -- Hain-Teny (Love Poem) / Miriam Koshland -- A Love Message / Flavien Ranaivo -- Proverb / Blaise Cendrars -- Song to a Gun / Blaise Cendrars -- Formulas Recited as Divinations After Throwing Four Principal and Forty-Two Accessory Bones / W.M. Eiselen -- Preoccupation / Merlin Ennis -- Song of the Fishermen / Wilfrid Dyson Hambly -- Minstrel's Song / K.L. Little -- On Wealth / F.W.H. Migeod -- From the Legend of the National Hero / Joseph Esser -- Songs During Love Dances / A.A.D. Delobsom -- Dance Tune / Hans Koritschoner -- Lullaby / Margaret Read -- Litany / Margaret Read -- Praise for a Chief / I. Schapera -- Hunter's Song / Hans Koritschoner -- Prayer for Rain / R.S. Rattray -- Lament / Ella Kidney -- Dance of the Animals / Blaise Cendrars -- Song During Circumcision Rite / H.A. Fosbrooke -- Song for a Dance / Otto Dempwolff -- A Boast of the Mad Mullah Who Fought the British / Enrico Cerulli -- Legend / Somali Ministry of Information -- Love Lyrics / Margaret Laurence -- Species of Women / Enrico Cerulli -- Traditional Song / B. Andrzejewski and I.M. Lewis -- Lullaby / Ch. Beart -- Song of Novices in the Secret Society of Snake Charmers / Hans Cory -- The Drought / Hans Koritschoner -- The European / Hans Koritschoner -- A Ditty / A. Werner -- In Praise of Marriage / Lyndon Harries -- The Poor Man / Lyndon Harries -- The Warrior / Lundon Harries -- Lullaby / E.J. Bourhill and J.B. Drake -- To Fatima / Johannes Lukas -- Praise for a Chief / A.C. Jordan -- Concerning the Totemic Animal of an Age Group / J.C.D. Lawrance -- Complaint of a Jilted Lover / Henri A. Junod -- Song of Young Men Working in Gold Mines of Johannesburg / Henri A. Junod -- Prayer of Warriors / Gunter Wagner -- Love Song of a Girl / A.C. Jordan -- Taunts of Old Women to a Pregnant Wife / A.M. Hokororo -- Dignity / E.A. Babalola -- Moral Discourses of the Supreme God / J.D. Clarke -- Praise Songs for Eshu Elegba, the God of Mischief / Joan Wescott -- Maiden's Song / Hermann Rehse -- War Song / Hermann Rehse -- Modern Concert Song / Hugh Tracey -- Love Song / Hugh Tracey -- Song of Those Growing Old / Hugh Tracey
Topic:
Folk poetry, African  Search this
Poetry--English  Search this
Poetry--Afrikaans  Search this
Call number:
PL8013.E5D65X 1966
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_213731