Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature by John D. Niles

Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

John D. Niles

296 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told a...

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