Selected Bibliography of Oral Literature
Native American and First Nations
Introductory Bibliography for the Transition from an Oral Society
Introductory Bibliography for Understanding Figurative Language for the Cultural Dictionary
GENERAL
Bauman, Richard & Joel Sherzer | ||
1974 | Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. London: Cambridge University Press. | |
Cohen, P.S. | ||
1969 | Theories of Myth. Man 4: 337-353. | |
Colby, B.N. and J.L. Peacock | ||
1973 | Narrative. In Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ed. J.J. Honigmann. Chicago: Rand McNally. | |
Edwards, Viv, and Thomas J. Sienkewicz | ||
1990 | Oral Cultures Past and Present: Rappin’ and Homer. Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell. | |
Finnegan, Ruth | ||
1976 | What is Oral Literature Anyway? In Benjamin A. Stolz and Richard S. Shannon (eds.). Oral Literature and the Formula. Ann Arbor: Centre for Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies, University of Michigan. | |
Georges, R. A. | ||
1969 | Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events. Journal of American Folklore 82: 313-28. | |
Jacobs, Melville | ||
1959 | The Content and Style of an Oral Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
Jacobs, M. | ||
1964 | Oral Literature. In Pattern in Cultural Anthropology. Homewood, IL: Dorsey. | |
Jason, H. | ||
1969 | A Multidimensional Approach to Oral Literature. Current Anthropology 10: 413-426. | |
Kellogg, Robert | ||
1973 | Oral Literature. New Literary History 5(1): 55-66. | |
Kirtley, Basil F. | ||
1980 | Motif Index of the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian Narratives. Folklore of the World. New York: Ayer Co. Publishers. | |
Murphy, William P. | ||
1978 | Oral Literature. Annual Review of Anthropology 7: 113-36. | |
Nagler, Michael T. | ||
1967 | Towards a Generative View of the Oral Formula. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 98: 269-311. | |
Nugent, Christopher M.B. | ||
2010 | Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
Philip, Etyang | ||
2010 | Folklore and Oral Literature Defined. Kenyatta University Department of Literature. http://www.kenyatta.academia.edu/EjakaitpapaEtyang/.../Folklore_and_oral_literature. | |
Sebeok, Thomas A., Ed. | ||
1955 | Myth: A Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. | |
Tonkin, Elizabeth | ||
1992 | Narrating Our Past: The Social Construction of Oral History. London: Cambridge University Press. | |
Wallace, Wanda T. | ||
1994 | Memory for Music: Effect of Melody on Recall of Text. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20 (6): 1471-1485. | |
Weiner, James F. | ||
1994 | Myth and Metaphor. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Tim Ingold, ed. Pp. 591-612. New York and London: Routledge. | |
Welsh, Andrew | ||
1978 | Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
Winner, Thomas G. | ||
1958 | The Oral Art and Literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. |
AFRICA
Belcher, Stephen | ||
1999 | Epic Traditions of Africa. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press. | |
Biebuyck, Daniel and Kahombo C. Mateene | ||
1971 | The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
Biesele, Megan | ||
2009 | Ju|’hoan Folktales: Transcriptions and English Translations: A Literacy Primer by and for Youth and Adults of the Ju|’hoan Community. Victoria, B.C.: Kalahari People’s Fund. | |
Cancel, Robert | ||
1988-89 | “Three African (Oral) Narrative Versions: Text, Tradition and Performance.” The American Journal of Semiotics VI(1):85-109. | |
1989 | Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition. Series in Modern Philology, no. 122. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
1993 | “Literature in African Languages: Perspectives on Culture and Identity.” In A History of Twentieth-Century African Literature. Oyekan Owomoyela, ed. Pp. 285-310. London and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. | |
2004 | “Festivals: Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda”. In African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah, eds. Pp. 123-25. New York and London: Routledge. | |
2012 | Storytelling and Telling Stories in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. | |
Finnegan, Ruth | ||
2007 | The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. | |
Gachanja, Muigai Wa | ||
1987 | The Gikuyu Folk Story: Its Structure and Aesthetics, Ph.D. Dissertation. Atlanta: Emory University. | |
Goody, Jack, and S. W. D. K. Gandah | ||
2002 | The Third Bagre: A Myth Revisited. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. | |
Mhando, Jacob | ||
2008 | Safeguarding Endangered Oral Traditions in Africa. Report by National Museums of Kenya for UNESCO: Kenya. | |
Nandwa and Bukenya | ||
1983 | African Oral Literature for Schools. Nairobi: Longman Kenya. | |
Okpewho, Isidore | ||
1992 | African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press. | |
Seitel, Peter | ||
1999 | The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
Soriente, Antonia | ||
2006 | Mencalèny & Usung Bayung Marang: A collection of Kenyah Stories in the Òma Lóngh and Lebu’ Kulit Languages. Atma Jaya University Press. |
BORNEO
Appell, G. N. | ||
1990 | Guide to the Varieties of Oral Literature Found in Borneo. Borneo Research Bulletin 22:98-113. | |
1996 | The Sabah Oral Literature Project: Report for the Period 1986 to 1995. Borneo Research Bulletin 27:140-146. | |
Ensiring, Janang anak; Jantan Umbat, and Robert Menua Saleh | ||
2011 | Bup Sereba Jaku Iban. Kuching: The Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
Geddes, W. R. | ||
1957 | Nine Dayak Nights. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | |
Langub, Jayl | ||
2001 | Suket: Penan Folk Stories. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 2. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies. | |
Masing, James Jemut | ||
1997 | The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak (Vol. 1&2). Canberra: Australian National University Press. | |
Morgan, Stephanie | ||
1992 | Outline for a Collector’s Question List for Bornean Oral Literature and Verbal Tradition. Borneo Research Bulletin 24:112-139. | |
Niles, John D. | ||
1999 | Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
Ridu, Robert Sulis, Ritikos Jitab, and Jonas Noeb | ||
2001 | King Siliman and Other Bidayuh Folk Tales. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 1. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies. | |
Rubenstein, Carol | ||
1973 | Poems of Indigenous peoples of Sarawak: Some of the Songs and Chants. Sarawak Museum Journal 21, No. 42 (Parts I and II). | |
Sandin, Benedict | ||
1960 | Tragi-comic tales of Apui Salui. Sarawak Museum Journal 9: 638-647. | |
1965a | Apai Saloi catches a tok tuak bird. SG (31 May 1965) 91(1287): 155-6. | |
1965b | Apai Saloi sells salted durian paste (tempuyak). SG (30 June 1965) 91 (1288): 191- 2. | |
1965c | Apai Saloi eats the deer meat. SG (31 October 1965) 91(1292): 304-5. | |
1965d | Apai Saloi and Apai Sumang Umang build new houses. SG (30 November 1965) 91 (1293): 339-40. | |
1965e | Apai Saloi with sago paste. SG (31 December 1965) 91 (1294): 378-9. | |
1977 | Gawai Burong: The Chants and Celebrations of the Iban Bird Festival, edited with an introduction by C. A. Sather. Pulau Pinang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia for Pusat Pengajian Llmu Sains Kemasyarakatan. | |
Sather, Clifford | ||
1984 | Apai Aloi Goes Hunting and Other Stories. Kuching: Persatuan Kesusasteraan Sarawak. | |
2001a | Apai Alui Becomes a Shaman and Other Iban Comic Tales. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 3. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies. | |
2001b | Seeds of Play, Words of Power. Kuala Lampur: The Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
2005 | Words, Poetics, and the Disclosure of Meaning in Ibanic Shamanic Rituals. In Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 30(2):24-43. | |
2006 | Iban Augury (Island of Borneo). In Les Messagers divins: aspects esthétiques et symboliques des oiseaux en Asie du Sud-Est (Divine Messengers: Bird Symbolism and Aesthetics in Southeast Asia). Pierre Le Roux and Bernard Sellato, eds. IRASEC. | |
2013 | Entangled Narratives: Encounters with Father of Alui, Dayak Studies, and Some Reflections on an Iban Gothic Tale. In Perspektif Masyarakat dan Budaya Sarawak - Perspectives on Sarawak Society and Culture. Sanib Said, Jayl Langub and Awang Azman Awang Pawi, Eds. Pp. 57 - 80. Sarawak: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. | |
2017 | A Borneo Healing Romance: Ritual Storytelling and the Sugi Sakit, A Saribas Iban Rite of Healing, Borneo Classic Text Series of Oral Literature No. 8. Published concurrently by the Borneo Research Council and the Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
Sutlive, Vinson H. | ||
2011 | Seeds of Sorrow, Words of Hope: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
2012 | Tears of Sorrow, Words of Hope, vol.1: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
2012 | Tears of Sorrow, Words of Hope, vol.2: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation. | |
Sweeney, Amin | ||
1987 | A Full Hearing: Orality and Literacy in the Malay World. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
ASIA
EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-AMERICAN
Beyer, Harald | ||
1979 | A History of Norwegian Literature. Einar Haugen, ed. and trans. New York: New York University Press for The American Scandinavian Foundation. | |
Byock, Jesse L., ed. | ||
1990 | The Sage of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
Davenport, Tony | ||
2004 | Medieval Narrative: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
Foley, John Miles | ||
1990 | Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
Friberg, Eino, trans. | ||
1988 | The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People. George C. Schoolfield, ed. Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company. | |
Ginzburg, Carlo | ||
1991 | Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath. New York: Pantheon. | |
Herzfeld, M | ||
1977 | Ritual and Textual Structures: the Advent of Spring in Rural Greece. In Text and Context: The Social Anthropology of Tradition, ed. R.K. Jain, p. 29-50. Philadelphia: Inst. Study Hum. Issues. | |
Kalinke, Marianne E. | ||
1990 | Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland. Islandica XLVI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. | |
Johnston, George, trans. | ||
1994 | Thrand of Gotu: Two Icelandic Sagas. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine Press. | |
Putter, Ad W. | ||
1996 | An Introduction to the Gawain-poet. London: Longman. | |
Revel, Nicole | ||
2000 | The Quest for a Wife (La Quête en épouse). Paris: Langues & Mondes/L'Asiatheque and UNESCO. | |
Watkins, Calvert | ||
1995 | How to Kill a Dragon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
NATIVE AMERICAN AND FIRST NATIONS
Cruikshank, Julie | ||
2000 | The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in The Yukon Territory. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. | |
Darnell, Regna | ||
1974 | Correlates of Cree Narrative Performance. In Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. London: Cambridge University Press. | |
Dauenhauer, Nora Mark, and Richard Dauenhauer, eds | ||
1987 | Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. Seattle: University of Washington Press. | |
de Laguna, Frederica, and Dale DeArmond | ||
1995 | Tales from the Dena: Indian Stories from the Tanana, Koyukuk, and Yukon Rivers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. | |
Hulan, Renée, and Renate Eigenbrod, eds. | ||
2008 | Aboriginal Oral Tradition: Theory, Practice, Ethics. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing. | |
Hymes, Dell | ||
1977 | Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative. New Literary History 8: 431-458. | |
1981 | "In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
Mishler, Craig, and William E. Simeone | ||
2004 | Han: People of the River- Hän Hwëch’in. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. | |
Mishler, Craig, ed. | ||
2001 | Neerihiinjik: We Traveled from Place to Place. The Gwich’in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank. 2nd Edition.Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center. | |
Nadasdy, Paul | ||
2003 | Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. | |
Preston, Richard J. | ||
2002 | Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meaning of Events. Second Edition. McGill-Queen’s University. | |
Ruppert, James, and John W. Bernet, eds. | ||
2001 | Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. | |
Tedlock, Denis | ||
1972 | Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians. Trans. Denis Tedlock. New York: The Dial Press. | |
Tikalsky, Frank, and Catherine A. Euler | ||
2010 | The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai. University of New Mexico Press. | |
Treuer, Anton | ||
2001 | Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories. Minnesota Historical Society Press. |
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN
Koelewijn, C. And P. Riviere | ||
1987 | Oral Literature of the Trio Indians of Surinam. Caribbean Series no. 6. Hawthorne, NY: Foris Publications. | |
Saíz, Próspero | ||
1996 | Chants of Nezahualcoyotl and Obsidian Glyph. Madison: Ghost Pony Press. | |
Schwarz, Anne | ||
2014 | Secoya Oral Traditions, Vol. 1+2. Berlin: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. | |
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Appell, G. N., and Laura W. R. Appell | ||
2012 | The Sabah Oral Literature Project: Theory and Methods. Sabah Oral Literature Project Publication No. 1. Phillips, ME: Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research. | |
Baum, Richard | ||
1986 | Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
Baum, Willa K. | ||
1977 | Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History. | |
Bauman, Richard | ||
1975 | Verbal Art as Performance. American Anthropologist 77: 290-311. | |
1986 | Story, Performance, and Event. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. | |
Brogan, Terry V. F. | ||
1996 | The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
Dundes, Alan | ||
1987 | Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. | |
Dundes, Alan, ed. | ||
1984 | Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
1988 | The Flood Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
Elliott, Jane | ||
2005 | Using Narrative in Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publications. | |
Finnegan, Ruth | ||
1992 | Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices. ASA Research Methods. London: Routledge Press. | |
Fussell, Paul | ||
1979 | Poetic Meter and Poetic Form: Revised Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. | |
Georges, Robert A. | ||
1969 | Towards an Understanding of Storytelling Events. Journal of American Folklore 82: 313-328. | |
Gossen, Gary H. | ||
1972 | Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior in Americo Paredes and Richard Bauman (eds.) Towards New Perspectives in Folklore. Austin: The University of Texas Press: 146-167. | |
1989 (1974) |
To speak with a heated heart: Chamula canons of style and good performance. In Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, 2nd Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press: 389-413. | |
Gunn, Giles | ||
1987 | The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
Hobsbaum, Philip | ||
1996 | Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. London: Routledge Press. | |
Hoopes, James | ||
1979 | Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. | |
Ives, Edward D. | ||
1974 | The Tape-recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. | |
Jung, C. G., and C. Kerenyi | ||
1963 | Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myths of the Divine Child and the Divine Maiden. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. New York: Harper Torchbooks. | |
Karpeles, Maud, ed. | ||
1958 | The Collecting of Folk Music and Other Ethnomusicological Material: A Manual for Field Workers. London: International Folk Music Council and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. | |
Kovach, Margaret | ||
2010 | Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. | |
Leach, Edmund | ||
1961 | Levi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden: An Examination of Some Recent Development in the Analysis of Myth. Transactions of the New York Academy of Science series 2: 23(4): 386-396. | |
Leach, Edmund, ed. | ||
1967 | The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. London: Tavistock Publications. | |
Leach, Edmund | ||
1969 | Genesis as Myth and Other Essays. London: Jonathan Cape. | |
Leeming, David, and Margaret Leeming | ||
1994 | A Dictionary of Creation Myths. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
LeRoy, John | ||
1985 | Fabricated World. An Interpretation of Kewa Tales. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press. | |
Levi-Strauss, Claude | ||
1955 | The Structural Study of Myth. In Myth: A Symposium. Thomas A. Sebeok, ed. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society. | |
1969 | The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to Science of Mythology: 1. New York: Harper and Row. | |
1973 | From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 2. New York: Harper and Row. | |
1978 | Myth and Meaning. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. | |
1984 | Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951-1982. Oxford: Blackwell. | |
Lomax, Alan | ||
1968 | Folk Song Style and Culture. Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science publication no. 88. | |
1976 | Cantometrics: an approach to the anthropology of music. Audio cassettes and handbook. University of California Extension Media Center. | |
Lord, Albert Bates | ||
1938 | Homer and Huso II: Narrative Inconsistencies in Homer and Oral Poetry. Transactions of the American Philological Association 69:439-445. | |
1951a | Composition by Theme in Homer and South Slavic Epos. Transactions of the American Philological Association 82:71-80. | |
1951b | Yugoslav Epic Poetry. International Folk Music Journal 3:57-61. | |
1953 | Homer’s Originality: Oral Dictated Texts. Transactions of the American Philological Association 84:124-134. | |
1956 | The Role of Sound Patterns in Serbo-Croatian Epic. In For Roman Jakobson. Pp. 301-305. The Hague: Mouton. | |
1959 | The Poetics of Oral Creation. In Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Werner P. Friedrich, ed. Pg 1-6. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. | |
1960 | The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
1962 | Homeric Echos in Bihac. Zbornik za narodno zivot I obicaje juznih slavena 40:313-320. | |
1965 | Beowulf and Odysseus. In Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. Jess B. Bessinger and Robert P. Creed, eds. New York: New York University Press. | |
1967a | Homer as an Oral Poet. Harvard Studies in Classic Philology 72:1-46. | |
1967b | The Influence of a Fixed Text. In To Honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (11 October 1966). Pp. 1199-1206l Janua Linguarum, Series Major, No. 32, vol 2. The Hague: Mouton. | |
1969 | The Theme of the Withdrawn Hero in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic. Prilozi za knjizevost, jezik, istoriju I folklor 35:18-30. | |
1970 | Tradition and the Oral Poet: Homer, Huso and Avdo Medjedovic. In Atti del convegno internazionale sul tema: La poesia epica e la sua formazione, edited by Enrico Cerulli et al. Pp. 13-28. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, no 139. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. | |
1971 | An Example of Homeric Qualities of Reception in Medjedovic’s “Smailagic Meho” In Seta Slavica In Memorium Aloisii Schmuas: Gedenkschrift fur Alois Schmuas. Wolfgang Gesemann, Johannes Holthusen, Erwin Koschmieder, Ilse Kunert, Peter Rehder, and Erwin Wedel, eds. Pp. 458-464. Munich: Rudolf Trofenik. | |
1972 | The Effect of the Turkish Conquest on Balkan Oral Tradition. In Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change. Henrick Birnbaum and Speros Vryonis, Jr., eds. Pp. 298-318. The Hague: Mouton. | |
1975 | Perspectives on Recent Works on Oral Literature. In Oral Literature: Seven Essays. Joseph Duggan, ed. Pp. 41-61. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. | |
1976 | The Traditional Song. In Oral Literature and The Formula. Benjamin Stoltz and Richard S. Shannon III, eds. Pp. 1-15. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies. | |
1981 | Memory, Fixity and Genre in Oral Tradition Poetries. In Oral Traditional Literature. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 451-461. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. | |
1986a | The Merging of Two Worlds: Oral and Written Poetry as Carriers of Ancient Values. In Oral Tradition in Literature: Interpretation in Context. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 19-64. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. | |
1986b | Perspectives on Recent Work on the Oral Traditional Formula. Oral Tradition I:467-503. | |
1987 | The Nature of Oral Poetry. In Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 313-349. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. | |
1991 | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. | |
Mackay, Nancy | ||
2007 | Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive. Left Coast Press, Inc. | |
Maranda, Pierre, and Elli Kongas Maranda, eds. | ||
1971 | Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
McGoldrick, Monica, and Randy Gerson | ||
1985 | Genograms in Family Assessment. New York: W. W. Norton. | |
Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. | ||
1980 | On Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
Nathhorst, Bertel | ||
1969 | Formal or Structural Studies of Traditional Tales: The Usefulness of Some Methodological Proposals Advanced by Vladimir Propp, Alan Dundes, Claude Levi-Strauss and Edmund Leach. Acta Universitatis Stockhomiensis (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion) 9. | |
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger | ||
1988 | Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes. New York: Macmillan. | |
Parry, Adam | ||
1971 | The Making of Homeric Verse: the Collected Papers of Milman Perry. Oxford: Clarendon Press. | |
Parry, Milman | ||
1923 | A Comparitive Study of Diction as One of the Elements of Style in Early Greek Epic Poetry. M.A. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. | |
1928a | L’Ephithete traditionalle dans Homere: Essai sur un probleme de style homerique. In Les Belles Lettres. Paris: Societe Editrice. | |
1928b | Les Formulares et la Métrique d’Homère. In Les Belles Lettres. Paris: Société Editrice. | |
1929 | The Distinctive Character of Enjambemet in Homeric Verse. Transactions of the American Philological Association 60:200-220. | |
1930 | Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making. I. Homer and Homeric Style. Harvard Studies in Classical Philosophy 41:73-147. | |
1932 | Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making. II. The Homeric Language as the Language of Oral Poetry. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 43:1-50. | |
1933-35 | Cor Huso: Studies of Southslavic Song. Field Notes, Expedition to Yugoslavia. 1936 On Typical Scenes in Homer. Classical Philology 31:57-60. | |
1936 | On Typical Scenes in Homer. Classical Philology 31:57-60. | |
1937 | About Winged Words. Classical Philology 32:59-63. | |
Rank, Otto, with Lord Raglan, and Alan Dundes | ||
1990 | In Quest of the Hero. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
Rubin, David C. | ||
1995 | Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-Out Rhymes. New York: Oxford. | |
Schechner, Richard | ||
1994 | Ritual and Performance in Tim Ingold (ed.) Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life. London: Routledge. 613-647. | |
Sillitoe, Paul | ||
1998 | The Development of Indigenous Knowledge: A New Applied Anthropology. Current Anthropology 39(2):223-252. | |
Silverman, Sydel, and Nancy J. Parezo, eds. | ||
1995 | Preserving the Anthropological Record. Second Edition. New York: Wenner-Gren. | |
Stolz, Benjamin A., and Richard S. Shannon III, eds. | ||
1976 | Oral Literature and the Formula. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies. | |
Strenski, Ivan | ||
1987 | Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. | |
Tedlock, Dennis | ||
1971 | On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative. Journal of American Folklore 84: 114-133. | |
1983 | The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
Vansina, Jan | ||
1961 | Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. | |
1985 | Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. | |
Wickett, Elizabeth | ||
2012 | Patronage, Commodification, and the Dissemination of Performance Art: The Shared Benefits of Web Archiving. Oral Tradition 27(2):333-350. | |
Winsey, Valentine Rossilli | ||
1992 | Your Self as History: Family History and Its Effects on Your Personality: A Research Guide. New York: Pace University Press. | |
Wuthnow, Robert, et al. | ||
1984 | Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE
TRANSITION FROM AN ORAL SOCIETY
Goody, Jack | ||
1977 | The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
1986 | The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
1987 | The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
Ong, Walter | ||
1982 | Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World. London and New York: Methuen. | |
Street, Bryan V. | ||
1994 | The Aspects of Literacy. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Tim Ingold, ed. Pp. 527-562. London and New York: Routledge. |
INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR UNDERSTANDING
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOR THE CULTURAL DICTIONARY
Fernandez, J. | ||
1974 | The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture. Current Anthropology 15:119-33. | |
Fernandez, James W., ed. | ||
1991 | Beyond Metaphor. Stanford: Stanford University Press. | |
Johnson, Mark | ||
1987 | The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
Johnson, Mark, ed. | ||
1981 | Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. | |
Lakoff, George | ||
1987 | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson | ||
1980 | Metaphors We Live By. London: University of Chicago Press. | |
Lakoff, George, and Mark Turner | ||
1989 | More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
Mac Cormac, Earl R. | ||
1985 | A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor. Cambridge: The MIT Press. | |
Ortony, Andrew, ed. | ||
1993 | Metaphor and Thought, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
Rosaldo, M.Z. | ||
1972 | Metaphors and Folk Classification. Southwest Journal of Anthropology 28: 83-99. | |
Sapir, J. David, and J. Christopher Crocker | ||
1977 | The Social Use of Metaphor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
Turner, Mark | ||
1987 | Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
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Becker, A.L. | ||
2000 | Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. | |
Nida, Eugene A. | ||
1964 | Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E. J. Brill. |
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