Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Storytelling. --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Oral history. --- Performance. --- Tradition, Oral --- Performance of folklore --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Storytelling --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Methodology --- Performance

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory, an interdisciplinary school of thought heavily influenced by John Miles Foley, whose work provides the jumping-off point for this volume. The book includes a useful introduction to the history of oral theory and Foley’s ground-breaking and influential work.

Oral history. --- Oral tradition. --- Anglo-Saxon Literature. --- Beowulf. --- Folklore. --- Medieval Music. --- Old Norse. --- Scandinavian religion. --- composition. --- narrative. --- orality. --- performance. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Methodology --- Foley, John Miles --- Criticism and interpretation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Following Tradition is an expansive examination of the history of tradition—"one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage"—in Americans' thinking and discourse about culture. Tradition in use becomes problematic because of "its multiple meanings and its conceptual softness." As a term and a concept, it has been important in the development of all scholarly fields that study American culture. Folklore, history, American studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and others assign different value and meaning to tradition. It is a frequent point of reference in popular discourse concerning everything from politics to lifestyles to sports and entertainment. Politicians and social advocates appeal to it as prima facie evidence of the worth of their causes. Entertainment and other media mass produce it, or at least a facsimile of it. In a society that frequently seeks to reinvent itself, tradition as a cultural anchor to be reverenced or rejected is an essential, if elusive, concept. Simon Bronner's wide net captures the historical, rhetorical, philosophical, and psychological dimensions of tradition. As he notes, he has written a book "about an American tradition—arguing about it." His elucidation of those arguments makes fascinating and thoughtful reading. An essential text for folklorists, Following Tradition will be a valuable reference as well for historians and anthropologists; students of American studies, popular culture, and cultural studies; and anyone interested in the continuing place of tradition in American culture.

Folklore --- History of North America --- History of civilization --- Folklore -- United States -- History. --- Folklore -- United States. --- Oral tradition -- United States -- History. --- Oral tradition -- United States. --- United States -- Social life and customs. --- Oral tradition --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- -Oral tradition --- -Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- United States --- Social life and customs. --- -United States --- Folk-lore, American

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Folk literature --- Oral tradition --- Littérature populaire --- Tradition orale --- History and criticism --- Periodicals --- Histoire et critique --- Périodiques --- Folk literature. --- Oral tradition. --- #FARO e-journal onderzoeksmethoden --- E-journals --- Arts and Humanities --- General and Others --- Mondelinge literatuur. --- Littérature populaire. --- Tradition orale. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral literature --- oral tradition --- folklore --- anthropology --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Literature --- Chinese languages --- Chinese literature

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

'Archaeologies of Listening' provides a fresh and bold look at how archaeologists and heritage managers may enhance their capacity to interpret and understand material culture and heritage values. By listening closely to indigenous voices and to those who have long-term relationships with the landscape, deeper empirical understandings are brought to interpretations. Drawing on the founding principles of anthropology, this work demonstrates the value of cultural apprenticeship, an almost forgotten part of archaeological practice.

Archaeology --- Oral tradition. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.