Literacy and Orality by Ruth Finnegan

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Literacy and Orality by Ruth Finnegan

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Studies communication and its implications for human thought and action in a comparative and historical context. The book contains recent research results of social anthropology and history, as well as field research in Europe, Africa and the South Pacific.

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Literacy and Orality by Ruth Finnegan

A new edition of Ruth Finnegan's controversial reposte to Walter Ong's famous theories of 'orality'
Finnegan, Ruth: - Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England. Robin Horton, FBA Professor at the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, is an English social anthropologist and philosopher who, in a series of influential works since the 1950s, has challenged and expanded views in the study of religion and anthropology--most notably, his celebrated Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. He has lived in Africa for four decades where he continues to conduct research on African indigenous religions, magic, mythology, and rituals.
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ISBN 13 9780631156260
ISBN 10 0631156267
Title Literacy and Orality
Author Ruth Finnegan
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Binding type Hardback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 1988-05-12
Number of pages 210
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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