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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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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