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@article{ART001700922},
author={Shelley Ashdown},
title={The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2012},
volume={28},
pages={87-114},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87}

TY - JOUR
AU - Shelley Ashdown
TI - The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2012
VL - 28
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 87
EP - 114
SN - 1598-0685
AB - The Maa speaking Torobo people inhabiting the southern portion of the Mau Escarpment in Kenya approach both individual and community survival from a relational orientation focused on ethnic identity and responsibility. This social responsibility to the tribe is in stark contrast to Torobo relationships with other ethnic groups. The purpose of the research is twofold. First, the paper explores how folkloric language through a trickster image reflects important cultural and social ideals, understandings, and patterns of thought in Torobo world view. A second purpose is to offer ethnographic information to scholars and students’ alike necessary for world view studies of eastern Africa specifically focused on the interplay between anthropomorphic tales and the social context in which these stories are utilized. The key research question for this analysis asks how the trickster image in Torobo folklore conceptualize the life experience. A Torobo folktale entitled, The Clever Hare, is the text chosen for analysis with the hare character as the protagonist. A second query explores the importance of the trickster image in understanding Torobo world view categories of Self and Other. The analysis contributes an ethnographic perspective for the world view categories of Self and Other as well as trickster folklore by examining the nature of Torobo-ness using the tale of the cunning hare as a research tool.
KW - world view;Self;ethnicity;trickster;African folklore.
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87
ER -

Shelley Ashdown. (2012). The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore. Cross-Cultural Studies, 28, 87-114.

Shelley Ashdown. 2012, "The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.28, pp.87-114. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown "The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore" Cross-Cultural Studies 28 pp.87-114 (2012) : 87.

Shelley Ashdown. The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore. 2012; 28 87-114. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown. "The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore" Cross-Cultural Studies 28(2012) : 87-114.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown. The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore. Cross-Cultural Studies, 28, 87-114. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown. The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2012; 28 87-114. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown. The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore. 2012; 28 87-114. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87

Shelley Ashdown. "The Clever Hare in Torobo Folklore" Cross-Cultural Studies 28(2012) : 87-114.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2012.28..87