Oral literature in the digital age : archiving orality and connecting with communities / edited by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson.

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...

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Online Access: Full text (Open Access)
Contributors: Turin, Mark (Editor), Wheeler, Claire (Editor), Wilkinson, Eleanor (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2013.
Series:World oral literature series ; Volume 2.
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Genre/Form:Electronic books
Local Note:JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Principles and Methods of Archiving and Conservation. The Archive Strikes Back : Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights / Thomas Widlok
  • Access and Accessibility at ELAR, A Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation / David Nathan
  • Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation : Linking an Ethnographic Archive of Endangered Oral Traditions to Contemporary Contexts / Judith Ashton and Paul Matthews
  • Engagements and Reflections from the Field. Researchers as Griots? Reflections on Multimedia Fieldwork in West Africa / Daniela Merolla and Felix Ameka, in collaboration with Kofi Dorvlo
  • American Indian Oral Literature, Cultural Identity and Language Revitalisation : Some Considerations for Researchers / Margaret field
  • Ecuador's Indigenous Cultures : Astride Orality and Literacy / Jorge Gómez Rendón
  • From Shrine to Stage : A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan / Madan Meena
  • Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History Documentation / Ha Mingzong, Ha Mingzhu and C.K. Stuart.