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abduction 11, 12, 13, 32

adultery 10, 12

Alasora 126

allusiveness 24-25

Ambohimahasoa 16

Ambohimanga 42

Ambohitsimanova 16

andevo 42, 52

Andranofotsy 14

andriambahoaka 50, 51, 52, 53

andriana 12, 39, 42, 46, 47, 51, 52

Andrianampoinimerina 5, 16, 18, 23, 38, 39, 42-43, 46, 52

Andrianjaka 42

anonymity 6-7, 49

Antaifasy 41

Antaimoro 39

Antananarivo 11, 38, 42

Antananarivo Annual 41

Antandroy 42, 117

Antankarana 12, 41, 133

Antanosy 41, 42

Antsirabe 10, 119

aphorisms 23

Arabian Nights 22

authenticity 7-8, 18-19

authorship of Ibonia 6-7, 39-40, 41-42

Banquo 52

Bara 11-12, 131

barrenness 11, 16-17, 33, 48, 126

Barthes, Roland 6-7

Bascom, William 8, 43, 52

Bauman, Richard 4, 37

Beaujard, Philippe 42

Becker, R. 13, 15-16, 22, 45, 50, 54

Ben-Amos, Dan 3

Bendix, Regina 19

Beowulf 5, 27

Betafo 10, 16, 119

Betsileo 16, 18, 19

Betsimisaraka 41, 55

Bhabha, Homi 54

Biebuyck, Daniel P. 23, 45

Birkeli, Émile 6, 40

Boas, Franz 43

Boccaccio, Giovanni 22

Bonia 11

Boniamanoro 13-14

Bouillon, Antoine 41

Briggs, Charles L. 5

Calame-Griaule, Geneviève 28

Callet, François 41, 46

Campbell, Joseph 43

Carver, Raymond 7

chanson de geste 45

Chapus, Georges-Sully 48-49

Chatelain, Héli 45

Chaucer, Geoffrey 22

Chazan-Gillig, Suzanne 14-15

Cinderella 6, 8

colonialism See Madagascar, French colonisation of

combat myth 17, 34-35, 43

comparatism 30 , 117

context See cultural context, social context

Cousins, W. E. 6 , 46

creolisation 38, 50-51

cultural context 37-38, 47 of Ibonia’s production 38-43

Dahle, Lars 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 26, 39-40, 46, 51, 52, 54, 126

style of translation 21-22

Dandouau, André 6, 40

Delivré, Alain 41

Deschamps, Hubert 14

diffusion 12, 18-19, 43

disguise 12, 13-14, 15, 17, 27, 33

divination 12, 15, 17, 33, 39, 40, 45, 49

divine kingship 16, 42, 49-50, 51, 52

Domenichini-Ramiaramanana, Bakoly 24-25, 41

donor sequence 13, 33

Dorian, Denise 11

Dumézil, Georges 44

Dundes, Alan 5

Ellis, William 46

endogamy 51

entextualisation 5-6, 39-40, 46

epic 1, 7, 23, 27-28, 29, 45-47, 53 social conditions for composition of 46

ethnic slur 26

Étiemble, René 46

etiological tag 1, 23

exogamy 51

fairy tale 1, 32, 45

Fanony, Fulgence 41

fanorona 11, 17, 27, 28, 48, 126

Farquhar, Robert 15, 38

Fernandez, James 53

Ferrand, Gabriel 18, 40

Fianarantsoa 16

Finnegan, Ruth 45

Flacourt, Étienne de 9-10, 49, 117-118

folklore 2, 14, 16, 19, 47-49

African-American 28

definition of 3-4

function of 52-53

in Madagascar 3, 6, 40-45

folkloric restatement 3-4, 54

Fox, Leonard 25, 40

framing 22-23

functions 32 in Ibonia 32-33

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 28

genres 23-28, 43, 44 See also epic

George, Robert 8

Girl of Grace 17-18, 26, 33

Goffman, Erving 4

Grimm brothers 1, 10, 22, 27

hainteny 24-27, 29, 40, 51, 54

Hamlet 7

Hastie, James 38

hero pattern 43-45

herranou 117

Homer 5, 22, 25, 46

hova 12, 39, 42, 47, 52

Hurston, Zora Neale 28

Hymes, Dell 4, 54

Iafolavitra 129

Iampelasoamananoro See Girl of Grace

Ikongo region 129

Imerina 11, 12, 15, 16, 23, 25, 42, 46, 48 See also Merina

India 23, 31, 46, 48, 50-51, 52

Indian Ocean 2, 44, 50

Indonesia 2, 42, 50-51

interpretations of Ibonia 47-53 See also metaphor, “missions” of

as a historical narrative 47-49

as a political text 15, 51-53

as evidence of ancient Malagasy mythology 50-51

as evidence of Malagasy beliefs 48-50

Ireland 23, 48

Islam 50-51

Jakobson, Roman 28-29

Johnson, John William 45

Jones, David 38-40, 46-47

Kent, Raymond K. 15-16

Kimbundu 45

kiridy 35

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara 4

Kluckhohn, Clyde 34, 117

Konantitse 15

La Fontaine, Jean de 18

Lakoff, George 28

Lang, Andrew 45

Lanting, Frans 41

legends 13, 33, 40, 42, 43

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien 48-49

Liberman, Anatoly 32

Lish, Gordon 8

literacy 10, 38-39, 46-47, 49

London Missionary Society (LMS) 38-39, 41, 45

Lönnrot, Elias 46

Lord, Albert 25

Macbeth 52

Mack, John 41

Madagascar 2, 41-42 See also folklore in Madagascar, Malagasy language

Indonesian immigration to 2

French colonisation of 9-10, 48-49

British trade with 38-39

magic objects 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 33, 45, 48-49

Malagasy language

dialects 15

naming conventions 5

Manakana 133

Mandihitsy, Cyprien 35

Marzolph, Ulrich 32

Masikoro 13-14, 34-35

Mauritius 16, 37-38, 50

Merina 5, 13, 15-16, 18, 24, 29, 33, 38-39, 41-43, 46, 48-49, 51-53 See also Imerina

social structure 15-16, 42, 51-52

versions of Ibonia 10, 11, 16, 119, 124, 126

vertical integration 23, 42

metaphor 24, 25, 28-29

“missions” of 53

metonymy 28-29

Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, L. X. 49

missionaries 9, 10-11, 38-39, 41, 45, 46

Molet, Louis 11

Motif Index See Thompson, Stith

motifs 29-31, 35, 48, 118, 124, 126, 129, 131, 133, 135, 139

in Ibonia 30-32

Mozambique 2

Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel 41

myths 33, 40, 43, 44, 50-51 See also combat myth, solar myth

Noiret, François 14, 16, 19, 54

Nyanga epic 23

Odyssey 5

Oedipal themes 13-14, 15, 34

Oedipus 43

Okpewho, Isidore 45, 46

oral transmission 5, 8, 13, 18-19, 39-40, 49 See also

Ottino, Paul 12, 24, 30-31, 42, 46, 47, 50-52, 54

Palmenfelt, Ulf 3

panegyric 25-27, 47

Paradise Lost 27, 28

Paulhan, Jean 25, 29

performance 3-4, 8, 14-15, 25, 35, 37, 40, 45-46, 54, 117

poetry 24-25, 28-29, 54

Pound, Ezra 29

Propp, Vladimir 32-33, 45

proverbs 23, 24, 40

Puhvel, Jaan 44

Rabonia 15, 16, 135

Radama I 14, 16, 23, 38-39, 45

Radama II 12

Raglan, Lord 17, 18, 43

Rainivato 17-18

Raivato 10

Ravato 15, 135

Ralambo 42

Ramayana 51

Ranakombe 12, 33, 49, 51

Ranavalona I 23, 41

Ranavalona II 16, 52

Randrianjaona Julien 16-17, 19

Rangaina 16

Ranohira 131

Rasoa 33

Rasoanor 10, 49, 117-118

re-contextualisation 37 See also cultural context, social context

Renel, Charles 6, 35, 40

Revato 13-14

Richardson, John 10, 46

riddle language 28-29

riddles 23-24, 28, 40

Said, Edward 47

Sakalava 10, 13, 14-16, 35, 40, 44, 50, 135

identity 15

influence on Merina society 16

Sakoambe lineage 15

Scheub, Harold 47

secularisation 44-45

self-praise 27

Seydou, Christiane 46

Shakespeare, William 7, 52

Sibree, James, Jr. 6, 10, 22, 26, 46, 53-54

signifying 28

Sihanaka 10, 41

Sims, John 11, 13, 16

Soamananoro 15

Soavololonapanga 131

social context 23, 37

solar myth 13, 50

Sophocles 34

Stone Man 10, 26-27, 32-33, 48-49

structure of Ibonia 32-34

Sudika-Mambi 45-46

Swahili 2, 51

tale types 30, 32

Tanala 10, 11-12, 42, 129

Tandroy See Antandroy

Tantaran’ny Andriana 18, 41, 43, 47, 52

Tarbaby 6

Tasso, Torquato 28

texture of Ibonia 21-22, 29, 48-49

Thompson, Stith 30, 32

Thoms, William 40

translation of Ibonia 13, 14, 22, 37, 53-54

tricksters 12, 40, 44

Tsimamangafalahy 14, 34-35

Tylor, Edward Burnett 45

Université de Madagascar 3, 6

Uther, Hans-Jörg 32

Vakinankaratra 10, 16, 119

variability 7-8, 18-19 See also comparatism, variants, versions

variants 8, 11, 12-13 of Ibonia 11-12

verbal duel 14, 25-27, 28, 29 See also hainteny

Vérin, Pierre 42

versions 7-8, 13

oral versions of Ibonia 13-14

written versions of Ibonia 9-11, 12, 14-18

Veyrières, Paul 40

Vohiposa 16

water crossings 10, 13-14

West, M. L. 44

Yeats, William Butler 7-8

ZafiRaminia 50

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