TY  - JOUR
A1  - Geider, Thomas
A1  - Vogels, Raimund
T1  - Environmental and cultural reflections in Kanuri hunters' songs
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - Our dichotomy of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is expressed in the Kanuri language with the terms al@ga for ‘creation’ and ‘creature’ which embraces trees, mammals, birds, insects, humans, in short the whole of the natural environment, and ada for ‘custom, habit, way of behaviour, family tradition’ for culture as a whole. There is no genre of oral literature, which would describe al@ga as such, but aspects of it can always be expressed in proverbs, riddles, toponymic praise phrases and songs, of which those performed by the hunters figure most prominently in reflecting upon al@ga. Yet, in these songs (and partly in other genres) ideas about al@ga are not purely descriptive in naturalists’ terms. They are much rather expressions, which centrally combine notions of the social and natural environment.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 08, 077 
Y1  - 1996
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1853
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35496
VL  - 8
SP  - 77
EP  - 83
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -