Ruth Funnegan

Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Hilary Finnegan OBE FBA (ba dɔge o la a kyuuri pie ne a yi bebiri lezare ne pie daare a yuoni  1933 poɔ ) o e la  a Northern Irish kɔkɔrɛɛ gane bagena  kyɛ la karama kpoŋ na ba naŋ boɔlɔ Emɛɛratus a Open unevernity poɔ.

 Nyuovore yɛlɛ 
Finnegan ba da dɔge laa yuoni 1933 a Derry poɔ. O gaa la  Londonderry sekondere sakuuri ( pampana ba boɔlɔ o la  Foyle kɔlaagy ane and  a Mount sakuuri, York poɔ  o naŋ wa baare la ka o zanne nensaaleba yipɔge Somerville kɔllagyi, a Oxford poɔ a naŋ zaane a gangye ŋa a o PhD a kɔkɔrɛɛ zanno gangye.  A o zannoo paaroo enyɛ  de teroo da e la a yuoni 1963 poɔ a yi Nuffield kɔllagye, Oxford piɔ, a yelzu da la "A Limba na e Sierra Leone ane  ba yipɔge bee  yelkããyeli.

O naŋ wa kanna tendaa yipɔge a unevaniti a  Zimbabwe a yi a yuomo 1963–1964  poɔ ane nensaaleba laŋkpeɛbo ne a tegbao a unevaniti Ibadan yuomo 1965–1967, Finnegan  da poɔ la  Open University a yuoni 1969  poɔ a poɔ a noba na naŋ piili kana zanne yeltere tontomba. O da e la karema a kanna nensaaleba ne ba tengbao yɛlɛ kyɛ te ws ta a yuoni 1972, kyɛ da leɛ kanne kanna tengbaŋ sakuuri a te leɛ karama gboŋ a yuoni 1988 poɔ. Finnegan da maŋ gaa la karama bɛrɛ naŋ kana yipɔge zie a Texas unevaniti a Austin poɔ a yuoni 1989.

Ba da iri la Finnegan ka o poɔ a lammo ŋa ba naŋ boɔlɔ Fellow a ko a  British zannoo a yuoni 1996 poɔ. O da nyɛ la kyɔɔtaare ŋa ba naŋ boɔlɔ OBE  a yuoni  2000  poɔ a yuonipaalaa kyɔɔtaare ane o naŋ tona tengane yɛlɛ. O la NewpoɔNew la a lammo ŋa ba naŋ noɔlɔ Somerville kolaagyi,  a Oxford poɔ. A yuoni 2016 poɔ de la kyɔɔtaare na ba naŋ boɔlɔ Rivers Memorial Medal a yi a Royal yipɔge sakuuri. 

 Gama mine o na sɛge 
Finnegan, R. 2018. "Alternative consciousness", in International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Wiley.
Finnegan, R. (ed) 2017. Entrancement: The Consciousness of Dreaming, Music and the World. University of Wales Press.
Finnegan, R. 2015. Where is Language?: An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance. Bloomsbury.
Finnegan, R. 2014. "Play is serious: children's games, verbal art and creativity in Africa", International Journal of Play.
Finnegan, R. 2012. Oral Literature in Africa. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. open access and downloadable for free
Finnegan, R. (ed) 2005. Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls. Palgrave Macmillan.
Finnegan, R. 2002. Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection. Routledge.
Finnegan, R. 1992. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context, 2nd edn. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press.
Finnegan, R. 1989. The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Finnegan, R. 1970. Oral literature in Africa. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Books available as Open Access
Finnegan, Ruth. Oral literature in Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2012.
Finnegan, Ruth. Oral poetry. Open Book Publishers, 2025.
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