Butterflies and Dragon-Eagles: Processing Epics from Southwest China
Mark Bender
In the mountains of southwest China, epic narratives are part of the traditional performance-scapes of many ethnic minority cultures. In…
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“With This Issue . . .”: A Record of Oral Tradition
Editorial Staff
In honor and memory of John Miles Foley, this chronicle of Oral Tradition provides abridged versions of selected columns written…
“Our Grandparents Used to Say That We Are Certainly Ancient People, We Come From the Chullpas”: The Bolivian Chipayas’ Mythistory
Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz
The Chipaya people live in the Bolivian Altiplano. Their ecological, economic, and social isolation forms the basis of a strong…
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Dipping into the Well: Scottish Oral Tradition
Cathlin Macaulay
The School of Scottish Studies was set up in 1951 to collect, research, archive, and publish material relating to the…
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Stepping Stones through Time
Emily Lyle
Indo-European mythology is known only through written records but it needs to be understood in terms of the preliterate oral-cultural…
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The Storyteller, the Scribe, and a Missing Man: Hidden Influences from Printed Sources in the Gaelic Tales of Duncan and Neil MacDonald
William Lamb
This article concerns the well-known case of storytelling brothers Neil and Duncan MacDonald from South Uist, Scotland. The impressive verbal…
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Masonic Song in Scotland: Folk Tunes and Community
Katherine Campbell
This article explores the place of Masonic songs historically in Scotland, assessing the oral culture surrounding the genre. The article…
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Oral/Aural Culture in Late Modern Society? Traditional Singing as Professionalized Genre and Oral-Derived Expression
Ingrid Åkesson
In late modern societies traditional arts tend to become disembedded from a functioning vernacular milieu and become partly absorbed into…
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Managing the “Boss”: Epistemic Violence, Resistance, and Negotiations in Milman Parry’s and Nikola Vujnović’s Pričanja with Salih Ugljanin
Slavica Ranković
Rather than approaching the Parry-Vujnović interviews with Salih Ugljanin, singer of South Slavic and Albanian epics, as primarily contextual and…
