Ruth Finnegan

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Hilary Finnegan is a Northern Irish linguistic anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of the Open University. Biography Finnegan was born in 1933 in Derry. She attended Londonderry High School

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Published Works

Oral Literature in Africa (1970) (697)
The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town. (1990) (466)
Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context (1979) (410)
Literacy and orality : studies in the technology of communication (1990) (309)
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices (1991) (209)
Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection (2002) (167)
The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa (2007) (121)
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts (1992) (111)
Literacy and orality (1988) (94)
Modes of Thought Essays on Thinking in Western and Non-Western Societies (1974) (85)
Limba stories and story-telling (1969) (83)
How to do Things With Words: Performative Utterances Among the Limba of Sierra Leone (1969) (67)
Music, experience and the anthropology of emotion (2003) (60)
Oral Cultures Past and Present: Rappin' and Homer (1991) (54)
African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, character, and continuity (1995) (54)
Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life (1998) (52)
A Note on Oral Tradition and Historical Evidence (1970) (47)
Survey of the Limba people of northern Sierra Leone (1965) (39)
Popular culture and everyday life (1981) (37)
The epic in Africa (1979) (37)
New Approaches to Economic Life: Economic Restructuring, Unemployment, and the Social Division of Labour (1984) (32)
Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls (2005) (26)
Tradition, But What Tradition and For Whom? (1991) (24)
The How of Literature (2006) (23)
Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text [and Comments and Reply] (1991) (21)
How oral is oral literature? (1974) (19)
See So that We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania. (1981) (19)
Family myths, memories and interviewing (2006) (19)
Why Do We Quote? the Culture and History of Quotation. (2011) (19)
South Pacific Oral Traditions (1996) (19)
Participating in the Knowledge Society (2005) (17)
Communication and technology (1989) (17)
The   Implications   of   “ Orality ” for   Studies   of   the   Biblical   Text (2004) (16)
Oral and Literate Culture (2001) (15)
What is Orality — if Anything? (1990) (15)
The Penguin book of oral poetry (1982) (14)
Information technology : social issues : a reader (1987) (14)
A World treasury of oral poetry (1981) (14)
Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls (2005) (13)
Where is Language?: An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance (2015) (13)
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts. A Guide to Research Practices (1993) (12)
Sources and methods for family and community historians : a handbook (1994) (11)
Oral literature in Africa (rev.ed.) (2012) (11)
African Folktales in the New World. (1995) (11)
"Oral Tradition": Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity? (2004) (10)
A Book Of British Music Festivals (1986) (9)
Approaches to the Study of African Oral Literature (1972) (8)
From family tree to family history (1994) (8)
Attitudes to speech and language among the Limba of Sierra Leone (1969) (7)
Child play is serious: children's games, verbal art and survival in Africa (2014) (7)
The springs of Mende belief and conduct : a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende (1971) (7)
Oral Tradition, Literary Tradition. A Symposium (1979) (7)
Not by words alone: reclothing the 'oral' (2006) (6)
The Kinship Ascription of Primitive Societies: Actuality or Myth? (1970) (5)
Introduction; or, Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South Pacifi c (1990) (5)
Attitudes to the Study of Oral Literature in British Social Anthropology (1969) (5)
Learning to Research: Resources for Learning and Teaching in Sociology and Social Policy (2001) (4)
"Short time to stay": Comments on time, literature, and oral performance (1981) (4)
Anonymity and pseudonyms (2003) (4)
Data - but data from what? (2008) (4)
Survey of the Limba People of Sierra Leone (1968) (4)
Can there be an Unbiased Sociology of Literature (1974) (4)
Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology (2018) (4)
Studying the oral literatures of Africa in the 1960s and today (2010) (4)
Popular culture : themes and issues (1981) (3)
The traditional concept of chiefship among the Limba (1963) (3)
Creativity – but where do you look? A tale of musicians in Milton Keynes (2009) (3)
John Blacking – Reminiscences (1991) (3)
Reflecting back on ‘Oral literature in Africa’: Some reconsiderations after 21 years (1992) (3)
O que vem primeiro: o texto, a música ou a performance? [Which comes first: the words, the music or the performance?] (2008) (3)
Conceptions of inquiry : a reader (1981) (2)
The social science disciplines (1975) (2)
Creativity looks at language (2011) (2)
Carried by a mystic wind. B. W. Andrzejewski on the Somali passion for poetry and language (2011) (2)
Response from an Africanist Scholar (2010) (2)
Epilogue: ways back and forward (2002) (2)
Can there be an Unbiased Sociology of Literature? (1974) (2)
Orality and literacy: epic heroes of human destiny? (2003) (2)
What migrates and who does it? A mini case study from Fiji (2011) (1)
«Transitional» Texts Across the World – What Are They? (2021) (1)
The Real Realization of Music-Ritual: Local, Not-Local, and Localized (2018) (1)
Genres, forms, meanings : essays in African oral literature : papers in French and English (1982) (1)
Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts (1991) (1)
1. The ‘Oral’ Nature of African Unwritten Literature (2012) (1)
STUART BLACKBURN: Moral fictions: Tamil folktales in oral tradition. (FF Communications, 278.) 338 pp. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2001. (2003) (1)
COMMUNICATING HUMANS . . . BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN (2004) (1)
10. Topical and Political Songs (2012) (1)
2. The Perception of African Oral Literature (2012) (1)
Review of “Spoken and written discourse: A multi-disciplinary perspective” by Khosrow Jahandarie (2001) (1)
Child play is serious: children’s games, verbal art and survival in Africa (2020) (1)
Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South (2007) (1)
Where is the meaning? The complexities of oral poetry and beyond (2003) (1)
Erasmus in praise of folly (2012) (1)
Gordon Innes (ed. and tr.): Sunjata: three Mandinka versions. [vii], 326 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1974. £7. (1976) (1)
'Not the message': media, meanings and magicality (2001) (1)
The voices of women in Africa. Love, marriage, slavery, apartheid (2014) (1)
Where does language come from? (2018) (1)
The Rewards and Issues of Studying Oral Literature: Some Personal Reflections (2009) (1)
B. W. Andrzejewski (tr.): Leopard among the women: Shabeelnaagood. A Somali play by Hassan Sheikh Mumin. (School of Oriental and African Studies.) xi, 230 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1974. £4.50. (1976) (1)
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Voice in a narrative: A trialogue with Ruth Finnegan (2021) (0)
12. Prose Narratives (2012) (0)
The Limba of Sierra Leone with special reference to their folktales or 'oral literature' (1963) (0)
Tape 8, Side 2 (2012) (0)
4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future (2011) (0)
Map showing peoples mentioned in the text (2012) (0)
Consciousness, Altered States of (2018) (0)
Tape 3, Side 2 (2012) (0)
5. Harvesting Others’ Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections (2011) (0)
In the Literature. (2017) (0)
16. Oratory, Formal Speaking, and other Stylized Forms (2012) (0)
The Myth of the Bagre. By Jack Goody. Oxford Library of African Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. x + 381. £9. (1974) (0)
Collecting, recording and creating texts: preliminaries and mechanics (1992) (0)
Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia by <string-name><given-name>Celia</given-name>s<surname>Hawkesworth</surname></string-name> (review) (2008) (0)
1. Prelude: A Dip in Quoting’s Ocean (2011) (0)
What is literature? (2020) (0)
7. Religious Poetry (2012) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Aspects of African religion (1977) (0)
6. Elegiac Poetry (2012) (0)
5. Panegyric (2019) (0)
SIMON OTTENBERG, Seeing with Music : Simon Ottenberg , Seeing with Music: the lives of three blind African musicians . Seattle WA: University of Washington Press, 1997, 230 pp., US $35.00, ISBN 0 295 97525 3. (2001) (0)
8. Special Purpose Poetry—War, Hunting, and Work (2012) (0)
Texts in process: translation, transcription and presentation (1992) (0)
J. P. Clark: The Ozidi saga: collected and translated from the Ijo of Okabou Ojobolo . xxxvii, 408 pp. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press [and] Oxford University Press Nigeria, [1979]. £19.95. (1981) (0)
Appendix 2. List of Mass Observation Writers (2011) (0)
Tape 4, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Fairy Tale in Africa (2019) (0)
The everyday enchanted we do not acknowledge (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Where is Language? (2020) (0)
Tape 2, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Inquiry in the social sciences (1981) (0)
Tape 12, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Conceptions of Inquiry@@@Measurement in the Social Sciences: The Link between Theory and Data (1982) (0)
An Anthropologist at Play: Balladmongering in Ireland and Its Consequences for Research. (1984) (0)
What is the art of language? (2020) (0)
Abbreviations and Note on Sources (2011) (0)
Review: Interpretation of Intellectual Diversity Author(s): Richard A. Shweder Reviewed work(s): Culture and Thought. A Psychological Introduction by Michael Cole ; Sylvia Scribner Modes of Thought. Essays on Thinking in Western and Non-Western Societies by Robin (2008) (0)
Tactile Communication (2020) (0)
13. Prose Narratives (2012) (0)
Tape 7, Side 1 (2012) (0)
'Artisting the self': A tale of personal story (2020) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE : AN EXAMPLE FROM THE STUDY OF EPIC 53 (2009) (0)
Appendix 1. Quoting the Academics (2011) (0)
Tape 8, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Tape 4, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Tape 1, Side 2 (2012) (0)
The Social, Linguistic, and Literary Background (2021) (0)
The Poetic and the Everyday: Their Pursuit in an African Village and an English Town (1994) (0)
Oral and Literate Expression (2015) (0)
Tape 1, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Beyond the walls: Researchers Outside the University (2013) (0)
Tape 5, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Genres and boundaries (1992) (0)
Tape 10, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Tape 7, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Forget the words ...: It's performance! (2020) (0)
Short story writing (2013) (0)
Competency issues for the 1980s. (1983) (0)
8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others’ Words and Voices (2011) (0)
9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It (2011) (0)
Analysing and comparing texts: style, structure and content (1992) (0)
3. The Social, Linguistic, and Literary Background (2012) (0)
2. Tastes of the Present: The Here and Now of Quoting (2011) (0)
Production, functions and ideas (2003) (0)
Tape 5, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Poem and story: The arts of dreaming and waking to sweet words (2020) (0)
John Miles Foley: Open Mind, Open Access, Open Tradition, Open Foley (2020) (0)
Acknowledgements: Addendum 2011 (2012) (0)
JOHN MILES FOLEY: (2020) (0)
Textualization of Oral Epics by Lauris>Honko (review) (2022) (0)
It’s not just the words … : the arts and action of performance (2006) (0)
Tape 2, Side 2 (2012) (0)
7. Arts and Rites of Quoting (2011) (0)
4. Poetry and Patronage (2012) (0)
17. Drum Language and Literature (2012) (0)
Jerrold M. Sadock, Toward a linguistic theory of speech acts. New York: Academic Press, 1974. Pp. 168. (1976) (0)
Review of Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan, edited by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern (2007) (0)
Tape 12, Side 1 (2012) (0)
The Divination Poetry of Ifa (2019) (0)
adduced by different scholars in adjudging drama: There is the Eurocentric and Afrocentric views on the existence of drama in Africa and what constitute modern African drama (2018) (0)
From the Literature. (2016) (0)
12. Prose narratives. I. Problems and theories (2015) (0)
Observing and analysing performance (1992) (0)
Song. What comes first: words, music, or performance? (2020) (0)
Bibliography (1954) (0)
Oral Literatures (2018) (0)
3. Putting Others’ Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today’s Quoting (2011) (0)
11. Children’s Songs and Rhymes (2012) (0)
Competence and performance: Was Chomsky right after all? (2020) (0)
Tape 3, Side 1 (2012) (0)
6. Quotation in Sight and Sound (2011) (0)
Introduction: scope and terminology (2003) (0)
Bibliography (1986) (0)
Tape 11, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Reclothing the 'oral’ (2020) (0)
Tape 11, Side 1 (2012) (0)
Note on Sources and References (2012) (0)
New Approaches to Economic Life: Economic Restructuring: Unemployment and the Social Division of Labour. (1988) (0)
Introduction (2011) (0)
Studying oral texts: The collection, analysis and preservation of oral traditions and verbal arts: a handbook for twenty-first-century researchers (2013) (0)
Interview of Ruth finnegan (2008) (0)
Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan (review) (2007) (0)
Some prior issues and practicalities (1992) (0)
Playing with the heroes of human history (2020) (0)
Tape 10, Side 2 (2012) (0)
Prose Narratives II. Content and Form (2012) (0)

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