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HumanitiesAnthropologyTranslation StudiesLiterary TranslationNarrative StudiesNarratologyFolktale TransmissionNarrative EthnographyFolk Narrative TransmissionFolk Tale NarrativesFolk Tale TranslationFolklore NarrativeFolkloric Narrative StructureFolkloric NarrativesMultiple Narrators
The Limba are rice farmers of northern Sierra Leone. This detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Ruth Finnegan, emphasizes the importance of actual delivery in these orally transmitted tales, the part played by the story-teller, and the changing forms arising from the originality of individual narrators.