Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or u...

The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthrop...

First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A shortaccount of the life and writingsof the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memo...

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explore...

The lovely queen Sophia has to submit to here conqueror King Francis to save her petiole from sla...

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This...

The best ofthe three great mystic poets Rumi, Donne and Blake, selected by the poet and novelist ...

Poems selected by the author from her uniqueinspirational bovel 'Black inkedpearl' expressing an ...

The doyen multi-award anthropologist Ruth Finnegan examines the age-old issues of the significanc...

A stunning account of how things that seem just part of everyday life, are in fact extraordinary ...

The poor poor dragon, with his boilsandhisbruises and blisters and SINS. His UGLINESS. No univers...

A companion storyto Ruth Finnegan's multi-award inspirational novel'Black Inked Pearl', this time...

Uses narrative and urban theory to analyse a range of stories about the city.

The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently,...

A beautifully illustrated rendering of the famous age old verse also known as ''The Dilly Song'' ...

Kris et Kate construisent un bateau dans le sable et leur chien Holly gambade autour d'eux. Ils s...

An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan'sauthoritative and fully evidenced classic., ded...

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wi...

An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried ...

The latest edition of the acclaimed classic on an increasingly important continent

MEET THE SUNIn this enthralling little book anthropologist and novelist Ruth Finnegan adapts the ...

Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written literature, ancient Greece was...

How do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City, first publish...

Printed first,,thought and penned last.,the innermost finalthoughts by great thinkers on their wo...

Ever wondered what the thieves in the AliBaba story were reallylike? Where they came from and how...

What is the role of sound in human like?and of music? What do we use it for and ow doesit vary ac...

The indispensable guide for preachers, students and scholars in this attractive new edition

does researching take place only in the universities? and what about the opportunities opened up ...

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or u...

Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and so...

Was it a dream? Her vision as she stood by that African river, and as she searched through the un...

Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today...

The amazing story of a small island in the South Pacific, its music and culture and its gifts to ...

RECOMMENDED BY ROWAN WILLIAMS, 104TH ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURYWINNER (FRIENDSHIO) BOOK EXCELLENCEA...

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wi...

The aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, ...

A gathering of the best stories from past centuries, with an illuminating introductionCallender A...

Before she was two, Helen Keller's sight and hearing were destroyed by a serious illness. Totally...

Kris and Kate build a boat in the sand, then, dreamlike, itbecomes a rowing boat. Their dog Holly...

Surprising conclusions about one of the great issues of our time by an acclaimed prize-winning ex...

An undiscovered treasure:the romance of cookery first published in America in 1911. A cross betwe...

A lovely collection of beautiful verse edited by Ruth Finnegan for the home, church or school. Ea...

The history of music, culture and radio in the small island of Fiji by a well -known anthropologi...

In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dim...

This classic study is an introduction to ''oral poetry,'' a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan int...

Alittle angel, banished from heaven, can only return if he observes and recordsseven acts of real...

On a wild Irish strand Kate flees in panic from her best friend's kiss, then must search for him ...