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Lee Haring, How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013. DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0034

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This is the fourth volume in the World Oral Literature Series, published in association with the World Oral Literature Project.

World Oral Literature Series: ISSN: 2050-7933

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Cover image: Couple (Hazomanga?), sculpture in wood and pigment. 17th-late 18th century, Madagascar, Menabe region. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Daniel and Marian Malcolm, and James J. Ross Gifts, 2001 (2001.408). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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