THE FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN AND OTHER ETHIOPIAN STORIES
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Author:
Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Traditional ባህለዊ
Date: Circa 1950
Date Details: 1950
Pagination: 141
Illustrations: Illustrated by Robert W. Kane
Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Notes:
The folk tales in this book were collected by Harold Courlander, the prominent and widely travelled American mythologist. In addition to this book of Eritrean and Ethiopian tales, Mr.Courlander has written a novel, which remains unpublished, and is based on an Ethiopian tale. Harold Courlander first visited Eritrea as an American soldier in 1943, after the Allies had defeated Italy in East Africa. Because of his prewar experience as a writer, he was assigned to be an army historian for the base he was stationed at in Eritrea. This assigment suited Courlander perfectly, and he began to explore the surrounding areas in Eritrea, to speak with Eritreans, and to learn the culture and language. As he notes in "A Voice for the People: The Life and Works of Harold Courlander," written by Nina Jaffe, it was Eritrean children who acted as translators in his discussions with Eritrean adults. The children would listen to Courlander as he spoke in his limited Italian(they had learned the language during the 50 year Italian occupation which had just come to an end), and then translate his questions into Tigrinya, for the adults to hear. This was the process by which he translated several Eritrean folktales, and documented the musical traditions of the culture. The illustrator for Courlander's translations, Robert W. Kane, was Courlander's fellow soldier, and responsible for painting camouflage on British and American aircraft. The Smithsonian Folkways Recording series includes a CD recorded by Courlander during his time in Eritrea and Ethiopia, entitled "Folk Music of Ethiopia".
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Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Traditional ባህለዊ
Date: Circa 1950
Date Details: 1950
Pagination: 141
Illustrations: Illustrated by Robert W. Kane
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Extras:
[view fulltext]
Notes:
The folk tales in this book were collected by Harold Courlander, the prominent and widely travelled American mythologist. In addition to this book of Eritrean and Ethiopian tales, Mr.Courlander has written a novel, which remains unpublished, and is based on an Ethiopian tale. Harold Courlander first visited Eritrea as an American soldier in 1943, after the Allies had defeated Italy in East Africa. Because of his prewar experience as a writer, he was assigned to be an army historian for the base he was stationed at in Eritrea. This assigment suited Courlander perfectly, and he began to explore the surrounding areas in Eritrea, to speak with Eritreans, and to learn the culture and language. As he notes in "A Voice for the People: The Life and Works of Harold Courlander," written by Nina Jaffe, it was Eritrean children who acted as translators in his discussions with Eritrean adults. The children would listen to Courlander as he spoke in his limited Italian(they had learned the language during the 50 year Italian occupation which had just come to an end), and then translate his questions into Tigrinya, for the adults to hear. This was the process by which he translated several Eritrean folktales, and documented the musical traditions of the culture. The illustrator for Courlander's translations, Robert W. Kane, was Courlander's fellow soldier, and responsible for painting camouflage on British and American aircraft. The Smithsonian Folkways Recording series includes a CD recorded by Courlander during his time in Eritrea and Ethiopia, entitled "Folk Music of Ethiopia".
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