Myth, ritual and the oral
By: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780521763011; 9780521128032
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem; title: oral 'literature'; title: the anthropologist and the audio recorder; title: oral creativity; title: the folktale and cultural history; title: animals, humans and gods in northern Ghana; title: the Bagre in all its variety; title: from oral to written: a breakthrough in story telling; title: writing and oral memory: the importance of the 'lecto-oral'.