Karin Barber is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

'The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond - … offers a much needed theoretical and methodological framework for a new anthropology of texts. The brilliance of Karin Barber's book unfolds in her analyses of oral and written texts - praise, poetry, epic poems, songs, novels, letters and unpublished journals …' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• 1. Anthropology and text; 2. Genre, society and history; 3. The constitution of oral texts; 4. Text and personhood; 5. Audiences and publics; 6. The private; 7. Textual fields and popular creativity.

Karin Barber is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

'The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond - … offers a much needed theoretical and methodological framework for a new anthropology of texts. The brilliance of Karin Barber's book unfolds in her analyses of oral and written texts - praise, poetry, epic poems, songs, novels, letters and unpublished journals …' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• 1. Anthropology and text; 2. Genre, society and history; 3. The constitution of oral texts; 4. Text and personhood; 5. Audiences and publics; 6. The private; 7. Textual fields and popular creativity.

Karin Barber is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

'The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond - … offers a much needed theoretical and methodological framework for a new anthropology of texts. The brilliance of Karin Barber's book unfolds in her analyses of oral and written texts - praise, poetry, epic poems, songs, novels, letters and unpublished journals …' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• 1. Anthropology and text; 2. Genre, society and history; 3. The constitution of oral texts; 4. Text and personhood; 5. Audiences and publics; 6. The private; 7. Textual fields and popular creativity.