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1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) : map |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Introduction : reading and listening at Batoche / Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen -- pt. 1. Questioning truths. Boasting, toasting, and truthtelling / J. Edward Chamberlin -- Orality about literacy : the 'black and white' of Salish history / Keith Thor Carlson -- pt. 2. Writing it down. The philosopher's art : ring composition and classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus / Twyla Gibson -- The social lives of Sedna and Sky Woman : the textualization of stories from Inuit and Kanien'kahake Mohawk oral traditions / Susan Gingell -- pt. 3. Going public. 'Private stories' in aboriginal literature / Kristina Fagan -- From family lore to a people's history : Ukrainian claims to the Canadian prairies / Natalia Khanenko-Friesen -- pt. 4. Subverting authority. Literacy, orality, authority, and hypocrisy in the Laozi / Gary Arbuckle -- Unstable texts and modal approaches to the written word in medieval European ritual magic / Frank Klaassen -- pt. 5. Uncovering voices. A tagalog awit of the 'Holy war' against the United States, 1899-1902 / Reynaldo C. Ileto -- Telling the untold : representations of ethnic and regional identities in Ukrainian women's autobiographies / Oksana Kis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oral tradition.
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Oral tradition. |
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Literacy.
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Literacy. |
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Language and culture.
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Language and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Carlson, Keith, 1966-
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Fagan, Kristina Rose, 1973-
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Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780802098269 0802098266 (DLC) 2010526284 |
| ISBN |
1442661933 (electronic book) |
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9781442661936 (electronic book) |
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9780802098269 (alkaline paper) |
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0802098266 (alkaline paper) |
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