The Holy Greyhound

Jean-Claude Schmidtt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 6
• The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in severa... Lees meer

Xhosa Oral Poetry

Jeff Opland

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 7
• The Xhosa-speaking peoples of south-eastern South Africa have a long tradition of oral poetry, extending back at least two hundred years. This book, f... Lees meer

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 23
• Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring toge... Lees meer

Story, Performance, and Event

Richard Bauman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 10
• Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualit... Lees meer

Literacy and Popular Culture

David Vincent

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 19
• This book examines the consequences of the spread of mass literacy across the whole range of popular culture in England and argues that the impact of ... Lees meer

To Speak in Pairs

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 15
• These original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the strict ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introductio... Lees meer

Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens

Rosalind Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 18
• Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many aspects an oral society. In the first major ... Lees meer

The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore

Maureen Perrie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 16
• Ivan the Terrible has long been a controversial figure. Some historians regard him as a crazed and evil tyrant; while others (especially Soviet schola... Lees meer

Tikopia Songs

Raymond Firth

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 20
• Sir Raymond Firth is the most distinguished living British anthropologist, and one also internationally acclaimed. His latest work forms part of one o... Lees meer

Narrating Our Pasts

Elizabeth Tonkin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 22
• Elizabeth Tonkin looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted. Her study is illustrated through a wide range of exam... Lees meer

Literacy in Theory and Practice

Brian V Street

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 9
• This book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective thr... Lees meer

Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens

Rosalind Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 18
• Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many aspects an oral society. In the first major ... Lees meer

To Speak in Pairs

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 15
• These original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the strict ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introductio... Lees meer

Native American Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 13
• Originally published in 1987, the aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, and interpretation of o... Lees meer

Sijobang

Nigel Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 1
• Sijobang - the singing of a poetic narrative about the legendary hero Anggun Nan Tungga - is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payaku... Lees meer

The Study of Change

James Reardon-Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
• When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." ... Lees meer

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 23
• Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring toge... Lees meer

Storytelling Rights

Amy Shuman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 11
• Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in ... Lees meer

The Incorruptible Flesh

Piero Camporesi

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 17
• What significance did the body have for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? The human body... Lees meer

Tikopia Songs

Raymond Firth, Firth Raymond

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 20
• Sir Raymond Firth is the most distinguished living British anthropologist, and one also internationally acclaimed. His latest work forms part of one o... Lees meer

Verbal Art in San Blas

Joel Sherzer

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 21
• This book, by one of the leading scholars in linguistic anthropology, concerns the verbal art of the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. The author desc... Lees meer

The Social History of Language

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 12
• In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists h... Lees meer

Storytelling Rights

Amy Shuman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 11
• Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in ... Lees meer

Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers

Donald J Cosentino

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture | nr. 4
• The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered... Lees meer