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Ruth Finnegan
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anthropological linguistics
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cross-cultural communication
discourse analysis
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ethnopoetics
Face To Face
Fairy Tales
fieldwork methodology
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Formulaic Analysis
Held
Historical Geographical Method
literature
Local Terminologies
Moyo
narrative structures
Oral Art
Oral Forms
Oral History
Oral Performance
Oral Poetry
Oral Tradition
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Playing Back
poetry
qualitative research in oral literature
Verbal Art
Verbal Art Forms
Vice Versa
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138165045
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Feb 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral form and their performances, treating both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected or analysed. It also relates to those current controversies about the nature of performance and of 'text'.
Designed as a practical and systematic introduction to the processes and problems of researching in this area, this is an invaluable guide for students, and lecturers of anthropology and cultural studies and also for general readers who are interested in enjoying oral literature for its own sake.
About Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan is Professor in Comparative Social Institutions at the Open University. She was editor of the anthropological journal Man from 1987 to 1989, and is the author of many books and articles, including Literacy and Orality, Oral Literature in Africa and Oral Poetry.

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