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  • Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

    par Lee Haring ...
    The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an ... En savoir plus

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  • Grand Theory in Folkloristics

    Modifié par Lee Haring ...
    Collections series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Essays arguing diverse positions on the concept of a grand theory in American folklore.Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical level. Through ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How to Read a Folktale

    The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar

    par Lee Haring ...
    Collections Livre 4 - World Oral Literature Series
    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale ... En savoir plus

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  • Oral Literature in Africa

    par Ruth Finnegan ...
    Collections Livre 1 - World Oral Literature Series
    Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new ... En savoir plus

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  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    par Clifford Geertz ...
    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Reading bande dessinee

    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    par Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

    Origins

    par Justine Tally ...
    Collections series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    par Nicholas Evans ...
    Collections Livre 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Fantasy

    How It Works

    par Brian Attebery ...
    An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is the lie that speaks truth. This book addresses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: first, how can it be meaningful ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Woman, Native, Other

    par Trinh T. Minh-Ha ...
    " . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " —Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." ... En savoir plus

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  • The Predicament of Culture

    Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

    par James Clifford ...
    The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions ... En savoir plus

    $45.09 CAD

  • Life-Destroying Diagrams

    par Eugenie Brinkema ...
    In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD