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Myth, ritual and the oral / Jack Goody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goody, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oral tradition.
- Folklore--Performance.
- Folklore.
- Storytelling.
- Ritual.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem
- Oral 'literature'
- The anthropologist and the audio recorder
- Oral creativity
- The folktale and cultural history
- Animals, humans and gods in northern Ghana
- The Bagre in all its variety
- From oral to written: an anthropological breakthrough in storytelling
- Writing and oral memory: the importance of the 'lecto-oral'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521763011
- 0521763010
- 9780521128032
- 052112803X
- OCLC:
- 644697091
- Publisher Number:
- 99940877927
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