Editor’s Column
This latest issue of Oral Tradition arrives somewhat later than the editors had hoped. It took us some time to…
“It Has Not Yet Become Pacified”: Kings, Hunting, and the Murder of the Father in Sanskrit Epic
Emily Blanchard West
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):3-36 The Mahābhārata and Ramāyaṇa present us with eight primary and embedded narratives in which an archer…
Type-Token Ratio and Entropy as Measures to Characterize a Forgery of Oral-Formulaic Epics
David L. Cooper, Demetry Ogoltsev, Michal Ondrejcek
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):37-62 The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts (Rukopisy královédvorský a zelenohorský, together abbreviated “RKZ” in Czech)…
Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago
By Loredana Lancini, Patrick Nunn, Meli Nanuku, Kaliopate Tavola, Taniela Bolea, Paul Geraghty, Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):63-90 Introduction…
Temporal Patterning and “Degrees of Orality” in Occitan and French Oral Narrative
Janice Carruthers, Marianne Vergez-Couret
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):91-122 Introduction This article explores tense usage and tense-switching in the temporal structuring of Occitan and French…
Ethnopoetic Transcription and Multimodal Archives: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach to Slam Poetry Scholarship
Cara Losier Chanoine
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):123-48 Slam is a relatively young genre of poetry, created in 1985 by a Chicago construction worker…
About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 36, Number 1 Taniela Bolea Born and bred in Ravitaki Village on the main island of Kadavu, Taniela…
