Editor’s Column
I am pleased to present to readers Oral Tradition Volume 34, comprising four essays that demonstrate, in the diversity of…
Back in the Foundation: Chauvinistic Scholarship and the Building Sacrifice Story-Pattern
Dorian Jurić
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):3-44 1 On an 1820-21 trip into the fledgling Serbian Principality, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (hereafter “Vuk”), the…
Unraveling the Knot: A Microethnography of the Use of Proverbs, Proverbial Language, and Surrogate Languages in an Akan Royal Court
Edmund Asare
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72 Click here to access the eCompanion. Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly…
Learning to be Satisfied: Navajo Poetics, a Chattering Chipmunk, and Ethnopoetics
Anthony K. Webster
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):73-104 In memory of Barre Toelken1 “This is so, isn’t it?” —F. R. Leavis (1972:62) “Hane’ doo…
Orality and Social Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Nicole G. Burgoyne
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):105-20 As any reader of Lolita knows, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is characterized by the strong, central voice…
About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 34 Dorian Jurić Dorian Jurić is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, folklorist, and railroad maintenance foreman whose research…
