South Pacific Oral Traditions

This volume demonstrates that oral media and naive cultural forms are still vital throughout the South Pacific. Contributors from anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, literature, and history raise issues in comparative scholarship on oral tradition.

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edited by Ruth Hilary Finnegan, Margaret Orbell

Summary

Demonstrating that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific, this book raises issues in comparative scholarship on oral tradition: what it means, extra-textual elements, and the relation between composition and performance. The contributors include Achsah Carrier, James Carrier, Christian Clerk, and many others.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edited by Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orb (Editor), Ruth Finnegan (Editor), Ruth H. Finnegan (Editor), Ruth Hilary Finnegan (Editor), Margaret Orbell (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.1995
• EAN: 9780253209580
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20958-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: 13 b&w photos
• Series: Voices in Performance and Text; Voices in Performance and Text; Voices in Performance & Text
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology