Editor’s Column
I am deeply grateful to the readers of Oral Tradition—and even more to the authors of the articles in these…
“What Do You Want Money For?”: A Chain Tale Between Berber and Songhay
Lameen Souag
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):3–18 Introduction This article examines an apparently undocumented tale from northwestern Africa: a short, simply phrased dialogue…
Postscript
Lameen Souag
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):19–21 Some years after completing the preceding article, the author came across what is so far the…
Tandaning: Songs of Lament of the Wide Bay Mengen, Papua New Guinea
Tuomas Tammisto
Oral Tradition, 37/1 (2023):23–47 The tandaning is one of the song genres of the Wide Bay Mengen living in East…
Vocal Delivery and Ritual Epic Performance in Central Himalayan Pandava Stories: Revisiting Genre Terminology and Oral Tradition
Andrew Alter, D. R. Purohit
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):49–74 Paṇḍwāṇī is a term used in some parts of India to refer to the oral rendition…
Urbanization and Folklorization of the Ashiq Tradition in Contemporary Iran1
Monire Akbarpouran
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):71–92 Introduction A hat, a mustache, an archaic costume. In the central square of Zanjān city—a hub…
Orality, Literacy, and the Psychology of Babylonian-Assyrian Orthography1
Martin Worthington
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):97–137 1. Introduction What happens at the interface of Orality and Literacy? The societies of Ancient Mesopotamia…
Bringing Back Bakonja: Epic Geography and the Editor’s Imperative1
Dorian Jurić
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):139-74 This song would be good if it were not so unnecessarily long. Although about 200 verse…
Fragments of the Utopia of Contestation in South Slavic Oral Lyric Poetry
Ana Vukmanović
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):175–96 Introduction South Slavic oral lyric songs are characterized by subjectivity and emotionality. They follow human life…
“A True Pioneer”: Matija Murko’s Influence on Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Blaž Zabel
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):197–220 This article1 looks at the relationship between Matija Murko (1861-1952)2 and the two well known Harvard…
