Ruth Finnegan

Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts

A Guide to Research Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, examining both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analysed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138165045
• ISBN-10: 1138165042
• Artikelnr.: 69991553

Autorenporträt

Ruth Finnegan is Professor in Comparative Social Institutions at the Open University. She was editor of the anthropological journal Man from 1987 to 1989, and is the author of many books and articles, including Literacy and Orality, Oral Literature in Africa and Oral Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: scope and terminology 1.1 Preview 1.2 'Language', 'speech'
and 'text': some initial questions 1.3 Some central terms-accepted and
disputed 1.4 'Text(s)': a special case 1.5 The interest of the problems 2
Theoretical perspectives 2.1 The role of theory 2.2 Continuing
methodological tensions 2.3 Background to studies of oral tradition and
verbal art 2.4 Influential methodologies and theories 2.5 Current trends 3
Some prior issues and practicalities 3.1 Some strategic questions 3.2
Background preparation 3.3 Recording equipment 3.4 Relevance for archive
research 4 Collecting, recording and creating texts: preliminaries and
mechanics 4.1 Some initial techniques and provisos 4.2 The settings for
collecting and recording 4.3 Making and keeping records 4.4 Preliminary
processing 5 Observing and analysing performance 5.1 Concepts of
'performance' and their significance 5.2 Audiences, performers,
participants 5.3 Other components of performances 6 Production, functions
and ideas 6.1 Composition, transmission and memory 6.2 Social and economic
position of participants 6.3 Verbal art, oral tradition and functions 6.4
Local aesthetics and thought 7 Genres and boundaries 7.1 Approaches to
classification 7.2 Some crucial boundaries: or are they? 7.3
Differentiating and studying genres 7.4 Some common genre terms and
controversies 7.5 Cross-cutting themes 7.6 Final points 8 Analysing and
comparing texts: style, structure and Content 8.1 Textual analysis:
problems and opportunities 8.2 Variation, typology and comparison 8.3
Structure and structuralist methods 8.4 Stylistic features and problems 8.5
Relevance of literary analysis and written literature 8.6 Specialist
techniques: counting, content and computers 8.7 The quest for 'meaning' 9
Texts in process: translation, transcription and Presentation 9.1
Translating 19.2 Transcription and representation 9.3 The presentation and
dissemination of texts and performances 9.4 Conclusion 10 Ethics