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  • THE STRANGE TOOLS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
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    THE STRANGE TOOLS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre is a thought-provoking exploration of the everyday tools of communication that weaves together history, art, and science to reveal how the voice, hand, and mind shape our shared experiences. Through a blend of scholarly research, personal insights, and field experiences – from the oral tales of Sierra Le...

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  • COMMUNICATING
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    COMMUNICATING
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This, Finnegan argues, seriously underestimates the far-reaching multi-modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch, olfaction, and, above all, audition and vision that we draw on. In an authoritative and readable account, Ruth...

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  • WHERE IS LANGUAGE?
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    WHERE IS LANGUAGE?
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech? For too long, ethnographic, aesthetic and sociolinguistic studies of language have remained apart ...

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  • ORAL TRADITIONS AND THE VERBAL ARTS
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    ORAL TRADITIONS AND THE VERBAL ARTS
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    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 ca...

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  • LIMBA STORIES AND STORY-TELLING
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    LIMBA STORIES AND STORY-TELLING
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently, been somewhat despised by their neighbours. Yet they possess a subtle and fascinating literature, as illustrated by this detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Dr. Finnegan. Their literary and artistic value emerges clearly when the significance of their 'oral...

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  • ORAL POETRY
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    ORAL POETRY
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia...

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