The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre explores the tools of ...

The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre explores the tools of ...

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or u...

The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthrop...

The amazing story of a small island in the South Pacific, its music and culture and its gifts to ...

A wonderful retelling of and new insight ino the familiar biblical tales in wonderfullyrich and t...

A new edition of Ruth Finnegan's controversial reposte to Walter Ong's famous theories of'orality'

A shortaccount of the life and writingsof the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memo...

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explore...

The lovely queen Sophia has to submit to here conqueror King Francis to save her petiole from sla...

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This...

The best ofthe three great mystic poets Rumi, Donne and Blake, selected by the poet and novelist ...