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_a398.2096
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100 1 _aFinnegan, Ruth
_4aut
_4res
245 1 0 _aOral literature in Africa
_h[electronic resource] /
_cRuth Finnegan
260 _aCambridge :
_bOpen Book Publishers,
_c2012
300 _a 570 p. ;
_bmaps
_c24cm
440 _aInclude reference
490 0 _aWorld Oral Literature Series ;
_v1,
_x2050-7933
500 _aRevised edition of: Finnegan, Ruth H. 1970. Oral literature in Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press
500 _aComplementary material (recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960's) is available from the World Oral Literature Project web site (http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html)
504 _aBibliography: p. 511-545
506 0 _fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 2 _a"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa." - back cover
530 _aAlso issued in print
530 _aAlso available in print
536 _aThe book is available as a free pdf and ebook download thanks to the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it
540 _aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
_uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
542 _f℗♭ 2012 Ruth Finnegan,
_fForeword ℗♭ 2012 Mark Turin
650 0 _aFolk literature, African
_xHistory and criticism
650 0 _aOral tradition
_zAfrica
650 0 0 _aAfrican literature
_xOrally transmitted literature
_xto 1969
_xCritical studies
710 2 _aOpen Book Publishers.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aFinnegan, Ruth H.
_tOral Literature in Africa.
_dCambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012.
_z9781906924713
_z9781906924706
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