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010 _a 2007005768
020 _a9780226249711 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a9780226249728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9781847010001 (cloth : James Currey)
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020 _a9781847010018 (pbk. : James Currey)
020 _a1847010016 (pbk. : James Currey)
020 _a0226249719 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0226249727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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035 _a(OCoLC)84152877
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100 1 _aFinnegan, Ruth H.
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245 1 4 _aThe oral and beyond :
_bdoing things with words in Africa /
_cRuth Finnegan.
260 _aOxford :
_bJames Currey ;
_aChicago :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press ;
_aPietermaritzburg :
_bUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
_c2007.
300 _axiii, 258 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-251) and index.
505 0 _aIntroducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?
650 0 _aOral tradition
_zAfrica.
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651 0 _aAfrica
_xFolklore.
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005768.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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