African Folklore: An Encyclopedia - Marshalls University

Index 1169
for Supreme Being, 72
Namibia, 287
dance in, 77–80
instruments in, 276–280
naming customs, 287–289
for East Africa, 288–289
narrations, Lugbara verbal discourse and, 289–291
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (Douglass), 16
narratives.
See also oral narrative;
personal experience narratives;
prose narratives
call-and-response in, 81–84
Egyptian, 295
etiological, 280, 281–282
folk, 225
tales of southern Africa, 427–428
Nasr, Ahmed Abdal Rahim, 187, 443
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 109
National Islamic Front, 446
National Museum, 156
National Party, 418, 430
National Science Foundation, 14
nationalism, 351
after World War II, 468
chiefs and, 61
in Egypt, 293–294
in Madagascar, 233–234
Romantic, 107
typology and, 480
Native Americans, 441
basketry of, 22
relationship with African Americans, 49
nature.
See also environment
in cosmology, 72–73
diseases/illness caused by, 253
spirits and, 174, 242
navigation
bathymetric, 13
celestial, 13–14
using cardinal directions, 43
Nc’wala ceremonies, 399
Ndadye, Melchior, 40
Ndawo, H.M., 426
Ndebele people
beadwork of, 24, 34–35
children’s folklore of, 63–66
oral traditions of, 427
praise poetry of, 357–358
N’Dembélé, Urbain, 133
N’Diaye, Bokar, 136