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Brian Boyd On the origin of stories
evolution, cognition, and fiction
Comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival: our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 540 pagina's | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 2009
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Elka Agoston-Nikolova Immured women
representations of family relationships in Balkan Slavic oral narrative poetry
Non-fictie
Engels | 163 pagina's | 1994
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West Africa
word, symbol, song
Boek bij de tentoonstelling over de geschiedenis van de literaire- en orale cultuur in West-Afrika.
Engels | 160 pagina's | British Library, London | 2015
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Bruce Jackson The story is true
the art and meaning of telling stories
Non-fictie
Engels | 244 pagina's | Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA | 2007
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Collecting and safeguarding the oral traditions
an international conference, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 16-19 August 1999, organized as a satellite meeting of the 65th IFLA General Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, 1999
Engels | 158 pagina's | Saur, München | 2001
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Collecting and safeguarding the oral traditions
an international conference
Non-fictie
Engels | 158 pagina's | IFLA Headquarters, The Hague | 2000
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Ruth Finnegan Oral traditions and the verbal arts
a guide to research practices
Engels | 284 pagina's | Routledge, London [etc.] | 1992
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