Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem
- 2 Oral ‘literature’
- 3 The anthropologist and the audio recorder
- 4 Oral creativity
- 5 The folktale and cultural history
- 6 Animals, humans and gods in northern Ghana
- 7 The Bagre in all its variety
- 8 From oral to written: an anthropological breakthrough in storytelling
- 9 Writing and oral memory: the importance of the ‘lecto-oral’
- Appendix Folktales in northern Ghana
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Religion and ritual from Tylor to Parsons: the definitional problem
- 2 Oral ‘literature’
- 3 The anthropologist and the audio recorder
- 4 Oral creativity
- 5 The folktale and cultural history
- 6 Animals, humans and gods in northern Ghana
- 7 The Bagre in all its variety
- 8 From oral to written: an anthropological breakthrough in storytelling
- 9 Writing and oral memory: the importance of the ‘lecto-oral’
- Appendix Folktales in northern Ghana
- References
- Index
- References
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