Visimu vya mukatikati —dilemma tales and ‘arithmetical puzzles’ collected among the Valuchazi

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ID11828282
AuthorsGerhard Kubik (a I.U.A.E.S. Commission on Urgent Anthropological Research, Institut für Völkerkunde. University of Vienna , 7 Universität Street, A-1010 , Vienna , Austria, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume10
Issue2
Pages59-68
Publication date1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth African Journal of African Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0257-2117 • E-ISSN: 2305-1159
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02572117.1990.10586834
OpenAlexW2230857235
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Dilemma tales are among some of the lesser known genres of oral literature in Africa. Working with taxonomies elicited from Luchazi—one of the languages of the so-called Ngangela cluster—dilemma tales are discussed on the basis of recordings and cinematographic documentation of narrative performances from eastern Angola and northwestern Zambia. In the oral literature of the Valuchazi use is sometimes made of explanatory visual symbols, or ideographs, drawn in the sand. This is exemplified by Chindamba Ngunga's dilemma tale, comprehensively transcribed and analysed in this article

Arithmetic function · Dilemma · Discrete mathematics · Epistemology · Mathematics education · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy

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