Literacy and Orality, the intriguing South Pacific Islands

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Ruth Finnegan

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Paperback / softback

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The classic account by doyen prize-winning anthropologist Ruth Finnegan of the issues, crucial for us all, surrounding oral and written communication as they worked - and still work - out in the romantic islands dotted round the Pacific Ocean. A riveting short book, remarkable equally for its scholarship and its readability. Not to be missed by anyone interested in these fundamental processes of our culture, Read more in Ruth's fabulous Orality and Literacy series - she is an accepted world authority on these far-reaching issues - of interest and importance to each of us. And then about the hidden nature of human communication in the so-often-misunderstood secrets revealed in her 'Communicating' and how we so amazingly overlap with animals and even have much to learn from them (startle your friends - and yourself!)

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He.h.finne

Release date Australia

July 23rd, 2020

Author

Ruth Finnegan

Pages

182

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

148x210x10

ISBN-13

9781716714634

Product ID

34187171

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