Author: Finnegan Alford-Cooper
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: lifetime, last, marriages, keeps
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1998-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0765601230
ISBN-13: 9780765601230

Derived from the author’s own survey called the "Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey", this text examines couples married 50 years or more. The survey, comprising of questionnaires and interviews, was conducted to learn what factors contributed to the longevity of marriages.

Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, context, significance, nature, poetry, oral
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1980-03-31
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0521297745
ISBN-13: 9780521297745

Oral poetry is a wide subject which ranges from American ’folksongs’, Eskimo lyrics or modern popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and more recent epic composers in Asia and the Pacific, Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr Finnegan includes in her argument the results of recent research from all over the world, thus illuminating and suggesting fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of ’oral tradition’; possible connections bet

Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: interconnection, human, modes, multiple, communicating
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-06-07
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415241170
ISBN-13: 9780415241175

In Communicating, the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on.The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time - resources consistently underestimated in those western ideologies that prioritise ’rationality’ and referential language.

Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: interconnection, human, modes, multiple, communicating
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-06-07
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0415241189
ISBN-13: 9780415241182

Many accounts of human communication suggests that communicating is limited to words, or at best, visual images, the mass media and modern IT. In this book Ruth Finnegan argues that many of our assumptions about communication have been word-centered. These analyses ignore the dynamic experiences of gesture, movement, dance, and sound itself. Using examples from Ireland and Italy, through West Africa and India to Japan and Australia, Communicating explores the different modes of communication to reveal why a limited view of this communciation is unsatisfactory.

Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: music, town, culture, english, making, musicians, hidden
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0819568538
ISBN-13: 9780819568533

A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, folk, and country. Notable for its contribution to wider theoretical debates and its influential challenge to long-held assumptions about music and how to study it, the book focuses on the practices rather than the texts or theory of music, rejecting th

Author: Lisa Finnegan
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: news, democracy, coverage, questions, asked
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0275993353
ISBN-13: 9780275993351

No Questions Asked takes an overarching view of media coverage from the day of the 9/11 attacks through the war in Iraq. It also compares and contrasts how the U.S. media vs. international media covered key events during this period. Fact-based rather than polemical, the book explains why journalists responded the way they did during wartime and explores the ramifications for democracy of a weak press.The Fourth Estate’s most important job is to present unbiased, accurate information about events, issues, and policies to the public. Without public scrutiny, administrations can become a b

Author: Richard P. Finnegan
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: keeping, workers, ideas, breakthrough, retention, times, rethinking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-16
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0891062386
ISBN-13: 9780891062387