Grift vs Griot - What's the difference?
grift | griot |
a confidence game or swindle.
A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
* 1995', Françoise Pfaff, ''Sembene, A '''Griot of Modern Times'', in Michael T. Martin (editor), ''Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality ,
* 1997 , Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship ,
* 2003 , Melissa Thackway, Interview I: Adama Drabo, director'', in ''Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film ,
A Haitian dish of fried pork.
As nouns the difference between grift and griot
is that grift is a confidence game or swindle while griot is a west african storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.As a verb grift
is to obtain illegally, as by con game.grift
English
Noun
(en noun)- as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"
Synonyms
* See alsogriot
English
(wikipedia griot)Noun
(en noun)page 118,
- Griots' may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ ' griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.
page 15,
- When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots .
- Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots'. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the ' griot .
page 183,
- I decided that it would be better for a griot' to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. '''Griots''' have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, ''Ta Dona'', in the same way that a ' griot would have.