Oral Traditions And The Verbal Arts

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134945396
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts written by Ruth H. Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Finnegan
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Download or read book Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts written by Ruth Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 147860798X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbal Art as Performance written by Richard Bauman and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-disciplinary and integrative nature of sociolinguistics is clearly evidenced in this highly regarded, insightful volume. Baumans holistic study brings together the separate fields of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism as they focus on verbal art. The work represented here is a clear assembly of perspectives and methodology of these disciplines from the viewpoint of performanceartistic action and artistic event. The basic principles underlying sociolinguistics (patterned variability and context as revealed through language) provide the coherence. In addition to Baumans useful conceptual framework, four lively, informative essays by leading scholars are included that clarify, illustrate, and amplify in an effort to treat verbal art as performance.

Author : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253328687
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Oral Traditions written by Ruth H. Finnegan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.

Author : Lee Haring
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512816698
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbal Arts in Madagascar written by Lee Haring and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory.

Author : Dennis L. Weeks
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910093
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts written by Dennis L. Weeks and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.

Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521385138
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbal Art in San Blas written by Joel Sherzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society.

Author : William M. Clements
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546770
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Verbal Art written by William M. Clements and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four centuries, Europeans and Euroamericans have been making written records of the spoken words of American Indians. While some commentators have assumed that these records provide absolutely reliable information about the nature of Native American oral expression, even its aesthetic qualities, others have dismissed them as inherently unreliable. In Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts, William Clements offers a comprehensive treatment of the intellectual and cultural constructs that have colored the textualization of Native American verbal art. Clements presents six case studies of important moments, individuals, and movements in this history. He recounts the work of the Jesuits who missionized in New France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and textualized and theorized about the verbal expressions of the Iroquoians and Algonquians to whom they were spreading Christianity. He examines in depth Henry Timberlake’s 1765 translation of a Cherokee war song that was probably the first printed English rendering of a Native American "poem." He discusses early-nineteenth-century textualizers and translators who saw in Native American verbal art a literature manqué that they could transform into a fully realized literature, with particular attention to the work of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent and pioneer field collector who developed this approach to its fullest. He discusses the "scientific" textualizers of the late nineteenth century who viewed Native American discourse as a data source for historical, ethnographic, and linguistic information, and he examines the work of Natalie Curtis, whose field research among the Hopis helped to launch a wave of interest in Native Americans and their verbal art that continues to the present. In addition, Clements addresses theoretical issues in the textualization, translation, and anthologizing of American Indian oral expression. In many cases the past records of Native American expression represent all we have left of an entire verbal heritage; in most cases they are all that we have of a particular heritage at a particular point in history. Covering a broad range of materials and their historical contexts, Native American Verbal Art identifies the agendas that have informed these records and helps the reader to determine what remains useful in them. It will be a welcome addition to the fields of Native American studies and folklore.

Author : John Miles Foley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070822
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read an Oral Poem written by John Miles Foley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many examples including an American slam poet, a Tibetan paper-singer, a South African praise-poet, and an ancient Greek bard (Homer) the author shows that although oral poetry predates writing it continues to be a vital culture-making and communications tool. Based on research on epics, folktales, lyrics, laments, charms, etc.--Back cover.