Thoughts and Reflections on Language, Literature, and Performance

ebook In search of human culture

By Ruth Finnegan

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What is language and how do humans use and analyze it? And how is it that literature exists, dreamlike, in human culture?

In this readable collection the eminent British anthropologist Ruth Finnegan reflects on both the questions and her own answers.

Thoughts and Reflections on Language, Literature, and Performance