The classic account by doyen prize-winning anthropologist Ruth Finnegan
of the issues, crucial for us all, surrounding oral and written
communication as they worked - and still work - out in the romantic
islands dotted round the Pacific Ocean. A riveting short book,
remarkable equally for its scholarship and its readability. Not to be
missed by anyone interested in these fundamental processes of our
culture, Read more in Ruth's fabulous Orality and Literacy series - she
is an accepted world authority on these far-reaching issues - of
interest and importance to each of us. And then about the hidden nature
of human communication in the so-often-misunderstood secrets revealed in
her 'Communicating' and how we so amazingly overlap with animals and
even have much to learn from them (startle your friends - and yourself!)