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The war of dreams : studies in ethno fiction.
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ISBN: 0745313841 Year: 1999 Publisher: London : Pluto

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Languages in Contact
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ISBN: 3110802171 9783110802177 9027926891 9789027926890 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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"This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it has not been replaced by any later general treatment." Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics

The oral and beyond : doing things with words in Africa.
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ISBN: 9781847010001 9781847010018 9780226249711 9780226249728 0226249719 0226249727 1847010008 1847010016 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford James Currey

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With her 1976 book 'Oral Literature in Africa', Ruth Finnegan almost single-handedly created the field of ethnography of language. Now, Finnegan has gathered and updated a selection of her best work on oral literature, performance, and the creative use of language in Africa, along with several new essays that broaden and extend her ideas. 'The Oral and Beyond' looks simultaneously backwards and forwards, reviewing and critiquing the achievements of scholarship on African oral literature, revisiting issues of perennial contention, and highlighting some of the most interesting new ideas and approaches in the field. Exploring such fundamental questions as how texts and textuality relate to performance, how ideology inflects language, and how traditional forms adapt to modern media and popular culture, Finnegan essentially crafts an intellectual history of her field. At the same time, she propels the ethnography of language forward, bringing the techniques and knowledge developed through her fieldwork in Africa to bear on issues that transcend African studies and reach into the larger world of anthropology and beyond.

Introduction to aesthetic anthropology.
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ISBN: 0890030413 Year: 1979 Publisher: Malibu Undena


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Visual sense : a cultural reader.
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ISBN: 9781845207410 9781845207403 1845207416 1845207408 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Macmillan


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Visual impact : culture and the meaning of images.
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ISBN: 9781859734735 9781859734681 1859734685 1859734731 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Berg

Rethinking symbolism.
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ISBN: 0521099676 0521208343 9780521099677 Year: 1975 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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Visual anthropology : photography as a research method.
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ISBN: 0030652456 Year: 1967 Publisher: New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston


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Comparative Bantu : an introduction to the comparative linguistics and prehistory of the Bantu languages.
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ISBN: 0576110000 0576110027 0576110035 0576110043 9780576110006 Year: 1967 Publisher: Farnborough : Gregg,

Literacy in traditional societies
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ISBN: 0521290058 0521073456 9780521290050 9780521073455 Year: 1975 Publisher: Cambridge,New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is enormous. It objectifies speech, provides language with a material correlative, and in this material form speech can be transmitted over space and preserved over time. In this book the contributors discuss cultures at different levels of sophistication and literacy and examine the importance of writing on the development of these societies. All the articles except the first were specially written for this book and the extensive introduction unites and synthesizes the material.

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