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1	Communicating more books like this by Ruth Finnegan, Finnegan Ruth In Communicating , the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on. The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and ... see all copies from $25.20! new only from $39.17! \| first editions
2	Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan How do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City brings together the academics' abstract tales with the vivid stories about a particular city, Milton Keynes, and the often moving self-narrations of its residents. It explores the role of story-telling processes for the creative constructing of experience, with ... see all copies from $22.35! new only from $31.80! \| SVS
3	Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts more books like this by Finnegan Ruth, Ruth H Finnegan The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention, whether for its own sake or as part of research on other topics, linking up with developing work on such topics as performance, text memory, the emotions, the ethnography of speaking, and the ... see all copies from $34.50! new only from $39.71! \| SVS
4	Family History to Community History more books like this by W T Pryce (Editor), Ruth H Finnegan (Editor) This is the second volume in a major new initiative in the study of local history, designed to equip students and amateur enthusiasts with a mastery of the basic techniques and concepts required to pursue the subject in depth. From Family History to Community History explores population movements, spatial divisions and social structures in town ... see all copies from $13.38! new only from $24.18! \| first editions
5	Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents more books like this by Amy Shuman, Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth H Finnegan (Editor) 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. see all copies from $44.95! new only from $45.23! \| SVS
6	The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan 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 ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
7	Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan This classic study is an introduction to oral poetry, a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific. The book employs a wide comparative perspective, to consider ... see all copies from $9.56! new only from $91.28! \| first editions
8	Information technology : social issues : a reader more books like this by Ruth Finnegan, Graeme Salaman, Kenneth Thompson Is there really an "information revolution"? What are the implications of information technology for our lives and social institutions? What social, political and ethical issues does it raise? This collection of papers by international specialists confronts these controversial questions. The book aims to provide a challange to many facile ... see all copies from $2.34!
9	Let Your Words Be Few more books like this by Professor Richard Bauman, Mr. Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor) see all copies from $9.69! first editions
10	The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan (Editor) In current debates about the 'knowledge society' and the organization of 'research', the spotlight is most often on the universities. This interdisciplinary and transhistorical volume focuses on the less often-recognized work of independent researchers creating and participating in knowledge outside the academy, from seventeenth-century north ... see all copies from $65.80! new only from $95.00! \| first editions
12 view cover	Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception more books like this by Aron Gurevich, Mr. Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor) By scrutinizing the lives of saints, miracle stories, descriptions of fantastic travels, penitential literature, catechisms and similar genres, from the fifth to the 15th centuries, the author attempts to reconstruct the beliefs and perceptions of ordinary men and women in medieval times. see all copies from $7.88! first editions
13	Conceptions of inquiry more books like this by Stuart Brown, John Fauvel, Ruth Finnegan see all copies from $10.99! first editions
14	The Penguin book of oral poetry more books like this by Ruth Finnegan see all copies from $17.35! new only from $32.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: A Handbook more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan (Editor), Jacqueline Eustace (Editor), Michael Drake (Editor) This is the second edition of the fourth volume of the successful series Studying Family and Community History, published in conjunction with the Open University. With its aim of placing individual and localised cases in their social and historical context, this accessible and innovative series will stimulate and develop personal research in ... see all copies from $22.46!
16 view cover	From Family Tree to Family History more books like this by Ruth Finnegan (Editor), Michael Drake (Editor) This is the first volume in a major new initiative in the study of local history, designed to equip students and amateur enthusiasts with a mastery of the basic techniques and concepts required to pursue the subject in depth. From Family Tree to Family History moves from a focus on individual families to the broader patterns revealed by recent ... see all copies from $48.99!
17	Limba Stories and Story-Telling more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan The Limba are rice farmers of northern Sierra Leone. This detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Ruth Finnegan, emphasizes the importance of actual delivery in these orally transmitted tales, the part played by the story-teller, and the changing forms arising from the originality of individual narrators. see all copies from $7.20! first editions
18 view cover	Oral Literature in Africa more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan see all copies from $49.50!
19	Sijobang: Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra more books like this by Nigel Phillips, Mr. Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor) A study of a popular tale about the adventures of an Indonesian prince, as narrated by storytellers in West Sumatra. Gives an account of the tale itself and analyzes its linguistic and literary features. see all copies from $57.56! first editions
20	Short Time to Stay: Comments on Time, Literature, and Oral Performance more books like this by Ruth Finnegan, Indiana University see all copies from $9.27! first editions
21	Literacy and Social Development in the West: A Reader more books like this by Harvey J Graff (Editor), Mr. Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor) see all copies from $11.00!
22	Literacy and Social Development more books like this by Harvey J Graff (Editor), Mr. Peter Burke (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor) see all copies from $29.95!
23	Modes of thought; essays on thinking in Western and non-Western societies more books like this by Robin Horton, Ruth H. Finnegan see all copies from $141.78! first editions
24	Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context more books like this by Stephanie Finnegan, Ruth Finnegan Oral poetry is a wide subject which ranges from American 'folksongs', Eskimo lyrics or modern popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and more recent epic composers in Asia and the Pacific, Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr ... see all copies from $16.00!
25	A World Treasury of Oral Poetry more books like this by Ruth H Finnegan see all copies from $89.64!

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