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9780521128032

Myth, Ritual and the Oral

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521128032

  • ISBN10:

    052112803X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-11-22
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem
Oral 'literature'
The anthropologist and the tape-recorder
Oral creativity
The folktale and cultural history
Animals, men and gods in northern Ghana
The Bagre in all its variety
From oral to written: a breakthrough in story-telling
Writing and oral memory: the importance of the lecto-oral
Appendix: Folktales in northern Ghana
Bibliography
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