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Tikopia Songs(Paperback)
Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands

By: Raymond Firth, Mervyn McLean

Cambridge University Press

Published: 27/09/2006

This book shows how the poetry and music of a Polynesian people, the Tikopia, can have an intimate relation with their social life.

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Xhosa Oral Poetry(Paperback)
Aspects of a Black South African Tadition

By: Jeff Opland

Cambridge University Press

Published: 29/11/2008

This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.

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Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers(Paperback)
Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance

By: Donald J. Cosentino

Cambridge University Press

Published: 29/11/2008

The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone.

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Sijobang(Paperback)
Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra

By: Nigel Phillips

Cambridge University Press

Published: 29/11/2008

Sijobang is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payakumbuh, in the highlands of West Sumatra.

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Verbal Art in San Blas(Paperback)
Kuna Culture Through Its Discourse

By: Joel F. Sherzer

Cambridge University Press

Published: 01/04/2009

This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society.

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The Holy Greyhound(Paperback)
Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century

By: Jean-Claude Schmidtt

Cambridge University Press

Published: 29/12/2008

Providing a rare access to the underlying cultural traditions of Europe, all too often submerged in the survivals of literate culture, this book will be welcomed by a wide range of historians and an...

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The Incorruptible Flesh(Paperback)
Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

By: Piero Camporesi, Tania Croft-Murray (Trans)

Cambridge University Press

Published: 12/02/2009

Professor Camporesi examines what significance the body had for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age?

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To Speak in Pairs(Paperback)
Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia

By: James J. Fox (Editor), Peter Burke, Ruth Finnegan

Cambridge University Press

Published: 25/07/2006

This collection of essays represents an important advance in the study of oral literature in context.

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Literacy in Theory and Practice(Paperback)

By: Brian V. Street, Peter Burke, Ruth Finnegan

Cambridge University Press

Published: 17/01/1985

This text challenges conventional theories about literacy. It attempts to provide a perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed, and from whic...

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Storytelling Rights(Hardback)
The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents

By: Amy Shuman, Peter Burke, Ruth Finnegan

Cambridge University Press

Published: 28/11/1986

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life.

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