Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral LiteratureIt would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories—from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moines—for it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past. |
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Contents
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2 Somatic Communication | 33 |
3 Poetry as Social Praxis | 66 |
4 Oral Poetry Acts | 89 |
5 Beowulf as Ritualized Discourse | 120 |
6 Context and Loss | 146 |
7 The Strong TraditionBearer | 173 |
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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature John D. Niles No preview available - 2010 |