SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad SIT Digital Collections Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection SIT Study Abroad Spring 2011 Tafasiry: Theater as a Tool for the Conservation of Malagasy Oral Tales Cassandra Stroud SIT Study Abroad Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Stroud, Cassandra, "Tafasiry: Theater as a Tool for the Conservation of Malagasy Oral Tales" (2011). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 996. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/996 This Unpublished Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the SIT Study Abroad at SIT Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection by an authorized administrator of SIT Digital Collections. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Tafasiry: Theater as a Tool for the Conservation of Malagasy Oral Tales by Cassandra Stroud Project Advisor : Christiane Ramanantsoa Academic Advisor : Roland Pritchett Semester : Spring 2011 Project Location : Morondava, Menabe, Madagascar 2 For Michelle McNamara 2 3 Acknowledgements Thank you to Roland, Hanta, and Rivo for all their help throughout the semester. Thank you to Hoby and Tojo for their work translating. Thank you to all the storytellers who shared their lives and their stories with me. 3 4 Table of Contents I. Introduction 5 II. Study Area 7 III. Research Methodology 10 IV. Angano: A Study of Malagasy Tales (i.e. the title I come up with) 21 V. Glossary 55 VI. References 56 VII.