Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices

Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices

By Ruth Finnegan

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Provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, examining both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analysed.

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Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 02/27/2017
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781138165045
ISBN-10: 1138165042
Language: English

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Provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, examining both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analysed.

About the Author

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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