Spider trickster tales from Jamaica the Anansi folk tales collection.
Reproduces more than 4,900 handwritten stories, each with a typed transcript, composed in Creole by 1,124 school children during 1930-1931 in response to a contest organized by Jesuit missionary and ethnologist, Joseph John Williams, on the oral tradition of the Anansi spider tales and other animal...
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| Format: | Microfilm Manuscript Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands :
Moran Micropublications,
2002.
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| Summary: | Reproduces more than 4,900 handwritten stories, each with a typed transcript, composed in Creole by 1,124 school children during 1930-1931 in response to a contest organized by Jesuit missionary and ethnologist, Joseph John Williams, on the oral tradition of the Anansi spider tales and other animal and human figures. |
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| Item Description: | "The originals of the manuscripts and typescripts on this film are in the John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA." Accompanied by a printed guide entitled: Guide & concordance to Spider trickster tales from Jamaica located in Archives Department file. |
| Physical Description: | 14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + 1 printed guide (23 p. ; 30 cm.) |