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Language Documentation and Description 8

Editor(s): Imogen Gunn & Mark Turin

Theme:

Oral Literature and Language Endangerment [Special Issue]

Date:

2010

ISSN/ISBN:

1740-6234

Papers on ethical strategies for collecting, recording, preserving and disseminating endangered oral literature, from a workshop of the World Oral Literature Project, 15-16th December 2009, University of Cambridge. The volume takes practical and theoretical issues in the study of oral traditions to a wider audience.

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Title	Author(s)	Pages
Table of Contents (LDD 8)		3-4
Editors' Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 8)	Imogen Gunn, Mark Turin	5-12
Rewards and Issues in Studying Oral Literature: Some personal reflections	Ruth Finnegan	13-26
Reading the Lontars: Endangered literature practices of Lombok, eastern Indonesia	Peter K. Austin	27-48
Recording Oral Literature in a Literate Society: A case study from the northern Philippines	Roger Blench, Fredeliza Campos	49-65
Documenting Ceremonial Dialogues: An in vitro performance and the problem of textualisation	Martin Gaenszle	66-82
The Parched Grain Chant: Parallel verse and simultaneous action in Magar rituals	Michael Oppitz	83-124
Re-sounding the Spirits of Altaian Oral Epic Performance: Kai throat-singing and its repercussions	Carole Pegg	125-139
Participatory Culture Documentation on the Tibetan Plateau	Gerald Roche, Ban+de mkhar, Bkra shis bzang po, G.yu lha, Snying dkar skyid, Tshe ring rnam gyal, Zla ba sgrol ma, Charles Kevin Stuart	140-158
‘Producing’ Thangmi Ritual Texts: Practice, performance and collaboration	Sara Shneiderman	159-174

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