An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan's authoritative and fully evidenced classic., dedicated to the great Africanist scholar and lifelong friend of the Somali people ' Goosh' Andrzejewski.
An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan's authoritative and fully evidenced classic., dedicated to the great Africanist scholar and lifelong ...
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 from analyses emerging from traditions such as literature and performance. Where is Language? argues for a more complex and contextualized understanding of language across this range of disciplines,...
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...
An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking. After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing, her convent education, and her coolly-controlled professional success, before her tsunami-like realisation beside an African river of the emotions she had concealed from herself and that she passionately and consumingly loved the man she had rejected.
Searching for him she visits the kingdom of beasts, a London restaurant, an old people's home, back to the misty Donegal Sea, the heavenly...
An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking. After the ope...
From birth she hadn't had a chance. But she was determined to outdo them all. Who would blow her trumpet if she didn't? Selfish, wicket, worst of the lot - only the snake loved her. But would motherhood change things? One of the unique and inspirationa
From birth she hadn't had a chance. But she was determined to outdo them all. Who would blow her trumpet if she didn't? Selfish, wicket, worst of the ...
The lovely queen Sophia has to submit to here conqueror King Francis to save her petiole from slaughter.As = a result she falls passionately in love with him - and he with her. But after just one night together he gives her away to his so, Corin. Before S
The lovely queen Sophia has to submit to here conqueror King Francis to save her petiole from slaughter.As = a result she falls passionately in love w...
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 can be observed, collected or analysed. It also relates to those current controversies about the nature of performance and of 'text'. Designed as a practical and systematic introduction to the processes and...
The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention.
