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Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Av Rosalind Thomas, Peter Burke m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the …
To Speak in Pairs
Essays on the Ritual Languages of eastern Indonesia
Av James J. Fox
Häftad, 2006
1005 kr
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This collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of oral composition and ritual communication, and in particular to the use of 'parallelism' (the poetic ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introduction by James J. Fox sets the topic in historical …
Storytelling Rights
The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents
Av Amy Shuman, Peter Burke m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
619 kr
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Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.
Tikopia Songs
Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
Häftad, 2006
976 kr
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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This …
Xhosa Oral Poetry
Aspects of a Black South African Tadition
Av Jeff Opland
Häftad, 2009, 3-6 år
619 kr
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The Xhosa-speaking peoples of south-eastern South Africa have a long tradition of oral poetry, extending back at least two hundred years. This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of that tradition. Jeff Opland has assembled a large corpus of Xhosa oral poetry making his the …
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance
Av Donald J. Cosentino, Donald Cosentino
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes …
Sijobang
Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra
Häftad, 2009
535 kr
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Sijobang - the singing of a poetic narrative about the legendary hero Anggun Nan Tungga - is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payakumbuh, in the highlands of West Sumatra. Although the story exists as a written text, it is best known locally as drama and sung narrative, and it is …
Verbal Art in San Blas
Kuna Culture through its Discourse
Av Joel Sherzer
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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This book, by one of the leading scholars in linguistic anthropology, concerns the verbal art of the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. The author describes a rich and varied array of Kuna verbal practices, ranging from reporting, formal speechmaking and political oratory to chants and magical …
The Holy Greyhound
Guinefort, Healer of Children since the Thirteenth Century
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in several popular cultures of Indo-European origin. This book concentrates on one local manifestation of the legend: a cult among the peasants of the Dombes, …
The Incorruptible Flesh
Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore
Inbunden, 2009
403 kr
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What significance did the body have for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? The human body was a constant prey to disease, plague, unhealthy living conditions, the evil effects of druggery and nutritional deficiency, yet the saints seemed …
Literacy in Theory and Practice
Häftad, 1985
616 kr
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This book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed and from which the practical issues that arise in specific …
Story, Performance, and Event
Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative
Häftad, 1986
552 kr
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Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the tales included are all from Texas, they are …
The Social History of Language
Häftad, 1987
653 kr
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In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. They have become interested in language both as a …
Storytelling Rights
The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents
Inbunden, 1986
1912 kr
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Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.
Native American Discourse
Poetics and Rhetoric
Av Sherzer, Joel Sherzer m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
619 kr
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Originally published in 1987, the aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, and interpretation of oral literature and verbal art. Developed through commentaries and analysis of a range of texts from Native American communities, past and present, …
To Speak in Pairs
Essays on the Ritual Languages of eastern Indonesia
Av James J. Fox
Inbunden, 1988
2113 kr
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This collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of oral composition and ritual communication, and in particular to the use of 'parallelism' (the poetic ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introduction by James J. Fox sets the topic in historical …
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Inbunden, 1989
2230 kr
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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the …
Tikopia Songs
Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
Inbunden, 1991
1647 kr
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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This …
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy
Inbunden, 1993
1979 kr
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely …
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy
Häftad, 1993
1022 kr
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely …
Literacy and Popular Culture
England 1750-1914
Häftad, 1993
635 kr
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In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English …
Narrating our Pasts
The Social Construction of Oral History
Häftad, 1995
764 kr
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This study looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted, and argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are also guides to the future, as well as being social activities in which tellers claim authority …
The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore
Av Maureen Perrie, Peter Burke
Häftad, 2002
636 kr
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Ivan the Terrible has long been a controversial figure. Some historians regard him as a crazed and evil tyrant; while others (especially Soviet scholars of the Stalin period) have viewed him as a progressive and far-sighted statesman. The folklore about Ivan has played an important part in these …
