The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics / Karin Barber.

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 origi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Barber, Karin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:New departures in anthropology ; no. 5.
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