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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511619656

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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 genre, 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 audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

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'The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond - … offers a much needed theoretical and methodological framework for a new anthropology of texts. The brilliance of Karin Barber's book unfolds in her analyses of oral and written texts - praise, poetry, epic poems, songs, novels, letters and unpublished journals …'

Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

'The Anthropology of Texts offers sets of concepts, terms and methods, refreshing the study of folklore and oral literature in Africa and elsewhere. It is a book that every cultural anthropologist and every folklorist ought to read.'

Source: Africa

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