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Narrating Our Pasts - The Social Construction Of Oral History

de Elizabeth Tonkin

60,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Using an interdisciplinary approach, Elizabeth Tonkin investigates the construction and interpretation of oral histories.
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Verbal Art In San Blas - Kuna Culture Through Its Discourse

de Joel Sherzer

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book, by one of the leading scholars in linguistic anthropology, concerns the verbal art of the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. Theirs is a world in which all knowledge and information, from history and geography to the latest sport news from Panama City, is orally conceived, perceived and transmitted and Joel Sherzer demonstrates how experience is shaped by these verbal discourses.
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Defiant Maids And Stubborn Farmers - Tradition And Invention In Mende Story Performance

de Donald J. Cosentino

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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 or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture.
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Sijobang - Sung Narrative Poetry Of West Sumatra

de Nigel Phillips

41,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Sijobang - the singing of a poetic narrative about the legendary hero Anggun Nan Tungga - is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payakumbuh, in the highlands of West Sumatra. Although the story exists as a written text, it is best known locally as drama and sung narrative, and it is its character as an oral performance that forms the subject of this book.
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Xhosa Oral Poetry - Aspects Of A Black South African Tadition

de Jeff Opland

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of that tradition. The book focuses in particular on the poetry produced by the imbongi.
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The Incorruptible Flesh - Bodily Mutation And Mortification In Religion And Folklore

de Piero Camporesi

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 Professor Camporesi examines what significance the body had for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? In this extraordinary and often astounding book, Professor Camporesi traces these ideas back to various documents across the centuries and explores the juxtaposition of medicine and sorcery, cookery and surgery, pharmacy and alchemy.
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Native American Discourse - Poetics And Rhetoric

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 Originally published in 1987, the aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, and interpretation of oral literature and verbal art.
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The Holy Greyhound - Guinefort, Healer Of Children Since The Thirteenth Century

de Jean-Claude Schmidtt

31,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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 anthropologists.
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Cross-Cultural Approaches To Literacy

158,17€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies, challenging the traditional view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society.
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Tikopia Songs - Poetic And Musical Art Of A Polynesian People Of The Solomon Islands

de Raymond (University Of London) Firth

79,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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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To Speak In Pairs - Essays On The Ritual Languages Of Eastern Indonesia

79,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of oral composition and ritual communication, and in particular to the use of 'parallelism' (the poetic ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). To Speak in Pairs represents an important advance in the study of oral literature in context.
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The Social History Of Language

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This volume of essays brings together some of this recent work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors concern themselves with the politics as well as the sociology of language.
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Narrating Our Pasts - The Social Construction Of Oral History

de Elizabeth (Queen'S University Belfast) Tonkin

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Using an interdisciplinary approach, Elizabeth Tonkin investigates the construction and interpretation of oral histories.
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Cross-Cultural Approaches To Literacy

77,06€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies, challenging the traditional view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society.
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The Image Of Ivan The Terrible In Russian Folklore

de Maureen Perrie

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this unusual and far-ranging study, Maureen Perrie discusses the nature of Ivan's image in Russian folklore; its historical basis; its development; and the controversies which have surrounded it in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russian scholarship.
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Literacy In Theory And Practice

de Brian V. Street

63,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed and from which the practical issues that arise in specific literacy campaigns and programmes can be approached.
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Literacy And Popular Culture - England 1750â€“1914

de David Vincent

60,83€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.
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Storytelling Rights - The Uses Of Oral And Written Texts By Urban Adolescents

de Amy Shuman

152,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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 by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.
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To Speak In Pairs - Essays On The Ritual Languages Of Eastern Indonesia

168,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of oral composition and ritual communication, and in particular to the use of 'parallelism' (the poetic ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). To Speak in Pairs represents an important advance in the study of oral literature in context.
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Oral Tradition And Written Record In Classical Athens

de Rosalind Thomas

178,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Concentrating on the plentiful evidence from Classical Athens, Dr Thomas shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral method of communication - an insight of considerable significance for the interpretation of ancient literacy.
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Oral Tradition And Written Record In Classical Athens

de Rosalind Thomas

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Concentrating on the plentiful evidence from Classical Athens, Dr Thomas shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral method of communication - an insight of considerable significance for the interpretation of ancient literacy.
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Tikopia Songs - Poetic And Musical Art Of A Polynesian People Of The Solomon Islands

de Raymond (University Of London) Firth

163,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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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Native American Discourse - Poetics And Rhetoric

74,35€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 The aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, and interpretation of oral literature and verbal art.
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The Dynamics Of Working-Class Politics - The Labour Movement In Preston, 1880-1940

de Michael Savage

47,32€

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 The Dynamics of Working-Class Politics is one of the more important essays in historical sociology published in past years.
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