Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Department
English
Document Type
Book
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Description
The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a "cradle land" in the plains of Turkana. In Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler shows how the poetic journey of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro and their metaphorical return during the Jie harvest rituals gives rise to stories, imagery, and the articulation of ethnic and individual identities.
Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world. Mirzeler's work contributes significantly to the anthropology of storytelling, the study of myth and memory, and the use of oral tradition in historical studies.
Call number in WMU's library
GR356.52.J53 M57 2014 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-1442626317
Publication Date
2014
Disciplines
African Languages and Societies | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Citation for published book
Mirzeler, Mustafa K. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Recommended Citation
Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal, "Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana" (2014). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 253.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/253