Ebook: Good Character and Bad Character: The Manobo Storytelling Audience as Society’s Jurors
- Tags: Cultural Traits, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Oral Tradition, Personality Traits, Sociocultural Patterns, Story Telling, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Foreign Countries, Folk Culture, Cultural Traits
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Linguistics Society of the Philippines
- City: Manila, Philippines
- Edition: Special Monograph Issue, Number 34
- Language: English
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Six Ilianen Manobo stories transcribed from oral performances, are presented here. The stories selected are those frequently used to transmit highly-valued Manobo cultural goals and values, including those used as parable in establishing precedent in the formal setting of custom-law cases. An introductory chapter provides background information on the native storyteller and some characteristics of her performances, Read more...