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Lullabies, spells, curses, prayers, songs, rhymes, riddles, narratives, and analogies are formalized language modes shaped by presuppositions that symbolic forms are capable of maintaining energies necessary for creation and structuring life (Griaule 139). Constituents of the taxonomy that the Limba name mbƆrƆ (Finnegan 25), these ritualized genres group seemingly discrete hermeneutics into instructive schemas. The reflective consciousness functions as a guide to the ethical obligation of communitas and assigns the imaginative endeavor a critical epistemological task: to align psychic and cosmic enterprises.
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© 2010 Paul A. Griffith
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Griffith, P.A. (2010). Lullabies and Children’s Games. In: Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106529_6
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