Fiction for the Ears:Storytelling for Shut-Ins

[] there would be three months of enforced isolation and leisure, between the harvest that takes place just before the rise of the swamps and the clearing of new farms when the water goes down []. As the swamps rose, the old men found it too difficult the walk from one homestead to the next, and [] as the swamps rose even higher all activities but one came to an end []. They drank and sang or they drank and told stories.

The above is from Shakespeare in the Bush (1966) by anthropologist Laura...