Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond

Name: Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780521546874

ISBN-10: 0521546877

ISBN-13: 9780521546874

Edition: 2007

Authors: Karin Barber

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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of gender, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Karin Barber is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She is author of The Generation of Plays (IUP, 2000), which won the Herskovits Award, and editor of Readings in African Popular Culture (IUP, 1997).




Anthropology and text



Genre, society and history



The constitution of oral texts



Text and personhood



Audiences and publics



The private



Textual fields and popular creativity