Myth, Ritual and the Oral

Informationen zum Autor Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Recently knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to anthropology, Professor Goody has researched and taught all over the world, is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1980 was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and he was elected Commandeur des Arts et Lettres in 2006. Klappentext Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy. Zusammenfassung In Myth! Ritual and the Oral Goody returns to the themes of myth! orality and literacy. Combining classic papers with recent work! this volume brings together some of the most important essays written on these themes in the past half century! representative of a lifetime of critical engagement and research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem; 2. Oral 'literature'; 3. The anthropologist and the tape-recorder; 4. Oral creativity; 5. The folktale and cultural history; 6. Animals, men and gods in northern Ghana; 7. The Bagre in all its variety; 8. From oral to written: a breakthrough in story-telling; 9. Writing and oral memory: the importance of the lecto-oral; Appendix. Folktales in northern Ghana; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Goody, Jack (University of Cambridge) Goody
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521763011
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76301-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Oral History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient religions & mythologies