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...

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

Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it ...

Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it ...

The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre is a thought-provoking...

The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre is a thought-provoking...

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

Is there a basic difference in thinking between Western and non-Western societies? This long-deba...

Is there a basic difference in thinking between Western and non-Western societies? This long-deba...

A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new preface.