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African Folklore: An Encyclopedia - Marshalls University

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Songye performance and, 493–495<br />

uli painting of Igbo, 495–496<br />

Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale:<br />

Recommissioning and Old Paradigm—Story as Initiation (Gilet), 296<br />

vocabulary, 64, 65<br />

vocal music<br />

<strong>African</strong> American, 261<br />

Arab and Jewish, 262–263<br />

homophonic parallelism in, 259<br />

vocation, through lineages, 253<br />

Vocke, Sibylle, 6<br />

Vodou religion, 45, 496–499<br />

Vodun religion, 441, 458–459<br />

dolls of, 458, 460<br />

Vogel, Susan, 119<br />

voice-disguisers, 499–500<br />

identity and, 97<br />

Voigt, Wilmos, 186<br />

Voisset, Georges, 307<br />

Voltaic groups, 74<br />

Voodoo, 45<br />

films on, 130<br />

wa Mirii, Ngugi, 333<br />

wa Thiongo’o, Ngugi, 333<br />

Wachs, Eleanor, 347<br />

Wahlman, 37<br />

Waja people, 154, 154<br />

wakes, 46<br />

Walantu Walansa (hairstyle), 39<br />

Walker, Barbara K., 444<br />

wall painting, 495–496, 511.<br />

See also graffiti<br />

wa-Mungi, Mbugua, 347<br />

wanga (charms/talismans), 497, 497–499<br />

war.<br />

See also Fulani jihad (holy war);<br />

military;<br />

specific wars<br />

Boer, 418, 427<br />

color symbolism for, 67, 68<br />

in epics, 116<br />

of Independence, Algerian, 414<br />

legends, 212<br />

praise poetry for, 361<br />

towns, Zulu, 9<br />

War Crimes Commission, 400<br />

war songs, 519<br />

Iteso children’s folklore and, 61–63<br />

Wardi, Mohammed, 446<br />

Ware, Otumfuor Opoku, II, 169<br />

Index 1201

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