Raymond F Person: 2 books
From Conversation to Oral Tradition
A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding...
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture
World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...