The Oral Tradition Today

Author : Liz Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 053603298X

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Author : Jan M. Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299102135

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Oral Tradition as History by Jan M. Vansina Pdf

Jan Vansina’s 1961 book, Oral Tradition, was hailed internationally as a pioneering work in the field of ethno-history. Originally published in French, it was translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Hungarian. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise of Vansina’s success in subjecting oral traditions to intense functional analysis. Now, Vansina—with the benefit of two decades of additional thought and research—has revised his original work substantially, completely rewriting some sections and adding much new material. The result is an essentially new work, indispensable to all students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history who are concerned with the transmission and potential uses of oral material. “Those embarking on the challenging adventure of historical fieldwork with an oral community will find the book a valuable companion, filled with good practical advice. Those who already have collected bodies of oral material, or who strive to interpret and analyze that collected by others, will be forced to subject their own methodological approaches to a critical reexamination in the light of Vansina’s thoughtful and provocative insights. . . . For the second time in a quarter of a century, we are profoundly in the debt of Jan Vansina.”—Research in African Literatures “Oral Traditions as History is an essential addition to the basic literature of African history.”—American Historical Review

Author : Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135227036

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Balancing Written History with Oral Traditions by Hassimi Oumarou Maiga Pdf

This book offers a unique interpretation of Africa’s legacy to the world and the worldwide African Diaspora through bringing to light the sociocultural contributions of the Songhoy people and the cosmopolitan empire they established in West Africa.

Author : Chris Smith
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781455565351

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The Daily Show (The Book) by Chris Smith Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today's most significant comedians, highlighted the hypocrisies of the powerful, and garnered 23 Emmys. Now the show's behind-the-scenes gags, controversies, and camaraderie will be chronicled by the players themselves, from legendary host Jon Stewart to the star cast members and writers-including Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Steve Carell - plus some of The Daily Show's most prominent guests and adversaries: John and Cindy McCain, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, and many more. This oral history takes the reader behind the curtain for all the show's highlights, from its origins as Comedy Central's underdog late-night program to Trevor Noah's succession, rising from a scrappy jester in the 24-hour political news cycle to become part of the beating heart of politics-a trusted source for not only comedy but also commentary, with a reputation for calling bullshit and an ability to effect real change in the world. Through years of incisive election coverage, passionate debates with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, feuds with Bill O'Reilly and Fox, and provocative takes on Wall Street and racism, The Daily Show has been a cultural touchstone. Now, for the first time, the people behind the show's seminal moments come together to share their memories of the last-minute rewrites, improvisations, pranks, romances, blow-ups, and moments of Zen both on and off the set of one of America's most groundbreaking shows.

Author : Anita Yasuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1773081802

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Oral Traditions and Storytelling by Anita Yasuda Pdf

Explores the role of storytelling in Indigenous culture and how they are keeping their oral traditions alive for future generations.

Author : John McIlwaine,Jean I. Whiffin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110955439

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Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions by John McIlwaine,Jean I. Whiffin Pdf

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.

Author : Mark Turin,Claire Wheeler,Eleanor Wilkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909254305

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Oral Literature in the Digital Age by Mark Turin,Claire Wheeler,Eleanor Wilkinson Pdf

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.

Author : Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000227987

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Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah Pdf

This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the history, cultural identity, performance techniques, language, social life and relationship with Islam of the oral genre. The author examines Dàdàkúàdá’s relationship with Islam and discusses how the Dàdàkúàdá singers, through their songs and performances, are able to accommodate Islam in ways that have ensured their continued survival as a traditional African genre in a predominantly Muslim community. This book will be of interest to scholars of traditional African culture, African art history, performance studies and Islam in Africa.

Author : Nepia Mahuika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681708

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Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia Mahuika Pdf

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not merely fanciful or puerile myths or traditions, but are viable and valid historical accounts that are crucial to native identities and the relationships between individual and collective narratives. This book challenges popular definitions of oral history that have displaced and confined indigenous oral accounts as merely oral tradition. It stands alongside other marginalized community voices that highlight the importance of feminist, Black, and gay oral history perspectives, and is the first text dedicated to a specific indigenous articulation of the field. Drawing on a Maori indigenous case study set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book advocates a rethinking of the discipline, encouraging a broader conception of the way we do oral history, how we might define its form, and how its politics might move beyond a subsuming democratization to include nuanced decolonial possibilities.

Author : Nepia Mahuika
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681685

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Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia Mahuika Pdf

"For many indigenous peoples, oral history is a living intergenerational phenomenon that is crucial to the transmission of our languages, cultural knowledge, politics, and identities. Indigenous oral histories are not merely traditions, myths, chants or superstitions, but are valid historical accounts passed on vocally in various forms, forums, and practices. Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective provides a specific native and tribal account of the meaning, form, politics and practice of oral history. It is a rethinking and critique of the popular and powerful ideas that now populate and define the fields of oral history and tradition, which have in the process displaced indigenous perspectives. This book, drawing on indigenous voices, explores the overlaps and differences between the studies of oral history and oral tradition, and urges scholars in both disciplines to revisit the way their fields think about orality, oral history methods, transmission, narrative, power, ethics, oral history theories and politics. Indigenous knowledge and experience holds important contributions that have the potential to expand and develop robust academic thinking in the study of both oral history and tradition.--

Author : Barbara W. Sommer,Mary Kay Quinlan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442270800

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The Oral History Manual by Barbara W. Sommer,Mary Kay Quinlan Pdf

The Oral History Manualis designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – the guiding steps that take a practitioner from idea through access/use. They examine how to articulate the purpose of an interview, determine legal and ethical parameters, identify narrators and interviewers, choose equipment, develop budgets and record-keeping systems, prepare for and record interviews, care for interview materials, and use the interview information. In this third edition, in addition to new information on methodology, memory, technology, and legal options incorporated into each chapter, a completely new chapter provides guidelines on how to analyze interview content for effective use of oral history interview information. The Oral History Manualprovides an updated and expanded road map and a solid introduction to oral history for all oral history practitioners, from students to community and public historians.

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202367620

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Oral Tradition by Jan Vansina Pdf

Author : Yer J. Thao
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786427499

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The Mong Oral Tradition by Yer J. Thao Pdf

In 1975, after years of struggle, Communists seized control of the government of Laos. Members of the Mong culture who had helped the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in their quest to halt the spread of Communism were forced to move to America as political refugees. The Mong, with their strong culture of oral traditions and beliefs, were plunged into a multicultural society where the written word was prevalent. As a result, their oral customs are now being slowly eroded and replaced with a written tradition. Desperate to hold on to their cultural identity and continue the traditions of their ancestors, the Mong still struggle with the dilemma this change in literary perception has caused. Compiled from numerous interviews, this volume explores the lives of 13 Mong elders. With emphasis on their unique oral tradition and cultural practices, the book discusses Mong rituals, tribal customs, religious beliefs and educational experiences. The main focus of the work, however, is the lifestyle the elders maintained while living in the mountains of Laos. In their own words, they describe their childhood, communities, religious rituals and cultural traditions as well as the ongoing struggle of adjustment to their new homeland. The work also delves into the Mong perceptions of industrialization and the generational conflict that immersion into a literate society has caused. The author himself is a member of the Mong culture and brings a personal perspective to preserving the oral traditions of this unique ethnicity. The work is also indexed.

Author : Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557154678

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The Oral Tradition of Africa: Words as Intellectual, Cultural, and Spiritual Nourishment! by Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery Pdf

Author : Juwen Zhang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793645142

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Oral Traditions in Contemporary China by Juwen Zhang Pdf

In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture has continued for thousands of years with vitality and validity, core and arbitrary identity markers, and folkloric identity. This framework, which describes a cultural self-healing mechanism, is equally applicable to the exploration of other traditions and cultures in the world. Through topics from Chinese Cinderella to the Grimms of China, from proverbs like “older ginger is spicier” to the life-views held by the Chinese, and from mountain songs and ballads to the musical instruments like the clay-vessel-flute, the author weaves these oral traditions across time and space into a mesmerizing intellectual journey. Focusing on contemporary practice, this book serves as a bridge between Chinese and international folklore scholarship and other related disciplines as well. Those interested in Chinese culture in general and Chinese folklore, literature, and oral tradition in particular will certainly delight in perusing this book.