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Selected Bibliography of Oral Literature

General

Africa

Borneo

Asia

Oceania and Australia

European and Anglo-American

Native American and First Nations

South and Central American

Theory and Practice

Introductory Bibliography for the Transition from an Oral Society

Introductory Bibliography for Understanding Figurative Language for the Cultural Dictionary

Translation

 

GENERAL

Bauman, Richard & Joel Sherzer
	1974	Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. London: Cambridge University Press.
Cohen, P.S.
	1969	Theories of Myth. Man 4: 337-353.
Colby, B.N. and J.L. Peacock
	1973	Narrative. In Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ed. J.J. Honigmann. Chicago: Rand McNally.
Edwards, Viv, and Thomas J. Sienkewicz
	1990	Oral Cultures Past and Present: Rappin’ and Homer. Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell.
Finnegan, Ruth
	1976	What is Oral Literature Anyway? In Benjamin A. Stolz and Richard S. Shannon (eds.). Oral Literature and the Formula. Ann Arbor: Centre for Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies, University of Michigan.
Georges, R. A.
	1969	Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events. Journal of American Folklore 82: 313-28.
Jacobs, Melville
	1959	The Content and Style of an Oral Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jacobs, M.
	1964	Oral Literature. In Pattern in Cultural Anthropology. Homewood, IL: Dorsey.
Jason, H.
	1969	A Multidimensional Approach to Oral Literature. Current Anthropology 10: 413-426.
Kellogg, Robert
	1973	Oral Literature. New Literary History 5(1): 55-66.
Kirtley, Basil F.
	1980	Motif Index of the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian Narratives. Folklore of the World. New York: Ayer Co. Publishers.
Murphy, William P.
	1978	Oral Literature. Annual Review of Anthropology 7: 113-36.
Nagler, Michael T.
	1967	Towards a Generative View of the Oral Formula. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 98: 269-311.
Nugent, Christopher M.B.
	2010	Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Philip, Etyang
	2010	Folklore and Oral Literature Defined. Kenyatta University Department of Literature. http://www.kenyatta.academia.edu/EjakaitpapaEtyang/.../Folklore_and_oral_literature.
Sebeok, Thomas A., Ed.
	1955	Myth: A Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Tonkin, Elizabeth
	1992	Narrating Our Past: The Social Construction of Oral History. London: Cambridge University Press.
Wallace, Wanda T.
	1994	Memory for Music: Effect of Melody on Recall of Text. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20 (6): 1471-1485.
Weiner, James F.
	1994	Myth and Metaphor. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Tim Ingold, ed. Pp. 591-612. New York and London: Routledge.
Welsh, Andrew
	1978	Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Winner, Thomas G.
	1958	The Oral Art and Literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

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AFRICA

Belcher, Stephen
	1999	Epic Traditions of Africa. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press.
Biebuyck, Daniel and Kahombo C. Mateene
	1971	The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Biesele, Megan
	2009	Ju|’hoan Folktales: Transcriptions and English Translations: A Literacy Primer by and for Youth and Adults of the Ju|’hoan Community. Victoria, B.C.: Kalahari People’s Fund.
Cancel, Robert
	1988-89	“Three African (Oral) Narrative Versions: Text, Tradition and Performance.” The American Journal of Semiotics VI(1):85-109.
	1989	Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition. Series in Modern Philology, no. 122. Berkeley: University of California Press.
	1993	“Literature in African Languages: Perspectives on Culture and Identity.” In A History of Twentieth-Century African Literature. Oyekan Owomoyela, ed. Pp. 285-310. London and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
	2004	“Festivals: Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda”. In African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah, eds. Pp. 123-25. New York and London: Routledge.
	2012	Storytelling and Telling Stories in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Finnegan, Ruth
	2007	The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Gachanja, Muigai Wa
	1987	The Gikuyu Folk Story: Its Structure and Aesthetics, Ph.D. Dissertation. Atlanta: Emory University.
Goody, Jack, and S. W. D. K. Gandah
	2002	The Third Bagre: A Myth Revisited. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Mhando, Jacob
	2008	Safeguarding Endangered Oral Traditions in Africa. Report by National Museums of Kenya for UNESCO: Kenya.
Nandwa and Bukenya
	1983	African Oral Literature for Schools. Nairobi: Longman Kenya.
Okpewho, Isidore
	1992	African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press.
Seitel, Peter
	1999	The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Soriente, Antonia
	2006	Mencalèny & Usung Bayung Marang: A collection of Kenyah Stories in the Òma Lóngh and Lebu’ Kulit Languages. Atma Jaya University Press.

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BORNEO

Appell, G. N.
	1990	Guide to the Varieties of Oral Literature Found in Borneo. Borneo Research Bulletin 22:98-113.
	1996	The Sabah Oral Literature Project: Report for the Period 1986 to 1995. Borneo Research Bulletin 27:140-146.
Ensiring, Janang anak; Jantan Umbat, and Robert Menua Saleh
	2011	Bup Sereba Jaku Iban. Kuching: The Tun Jugah Foundation.
Geddes, W. R.
	1957	Nine Dayak Nights. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Langub, Jayl
	2001	Suket: Penan Folk Stories. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 2. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies.
Masing, James Jemut
	1997	The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak (Vol. 1&2). Canberra: Australian National University Press.
Morgan, Stephanie
	1992	Outline for a Collector’s Question List for Bornean Oral Literature and Verbal Tradition. Borneo Research Bulletin 24:112-139.
Niles, John D.
	1999	Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ridu, Robert Sulis, Ritikos Jitab, and Jonas Noeb
	2001	King Siliman and Other Bidayuh Folk Tales. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 1. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies.
Rubenstein, Carol
	1973	Poems of Indigenous peoples of Sarawak: Some of the Songs and Chants. Sarawak Museum Journal 21, No. 42 (Parts I and II).
Sandin, Benedict
	1960	Tragi-comic tales of Apui Salui. Sarawak Museum Journal 9: 638-647.
	1965a	Apai Saloi catches a tok tuak bird. SG (31 May 1965) 91(1287): 155-6.
	1965b	Apai Saloi sells salted durian paste (tempuyak). SG (30 June 1965) 91 (1288): 191- 2.
	1965c	Apai Saloi eats the deer meat. SG (31 October 1965) 91(1292): 304-5.
	1965d	Apai Saloi and Apai Sumang Umang build new houses. SG (30 November 1965) 91 (1293): 339-40.
	1965e	Apai Saloi with sago paste. SG (31 December 1965) 91 (1294): 378-9.
	1977	Gawai Burong: The Chants and Celebrations of the Iban Bird Festival, edited with an introduction by C. A. Sather. Pulau Pinang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia for Pusat Pengajian Llmu Sains Kemasyarakatan.
Sather, Clifford
	1984	Apai Aloi Goes Hunting and Other Stories. Kuching: Persatuan Kesusasteraan Sarawak.
	2001a	Apai Alui Becomes a Shaman and Other Iban Comic Tales. Dayak Studies Oral Literature Series, No. 3. Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Institute of East Asian Studies.
	2001b	Seeds of Play, Words of Power. Kuala Lampur: The Tun Jugah Foundation.
	2005	Words, Poetics, and the Disclosure of Meaning in Ibanic Shamanic Rituals. In Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 30(2):24-43.
	2006	Iban Augury (Island of Borneo). In Les Messagers divins: aspects esthétiques et symboliques des oiseaux en Asie du Sud-Est (Divine Messengers: Bird Symbolism and Aesthetics in Southeast Asia). Pierre Le Roux and Bernard Sellato, eds. IRASEC.
	2013	Entangled Narratives: Encounters with Father of Alui, Dayak Studies, and Some Reflections on an Iban Gothic Tale. In Perspektif Masyarakat dan Budaya Sarawak - Perspectives on Sarawak Society and Culture. Sanib Said, Jayl Langub and Awang Azman Awang Pawi, Eds. Pp. 57 - 80. Sarawak: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
	2017	A Borneo Healing Romance: Ritual Storytelling and the Sugi Sakit, A Saribas Iban Rite of Healing, Borneo Classic Text Series of Oral Literature No. 8. Published concurrently by the Borneo Research Council and the Tun Jugah Foundation.
Sutlive, Vinson H.
	2011	Seeds of Sorrow, Words of Hope: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation.
	2012	Tears of Sorrow, Words of Hope, vol.1: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation.
	2012	Tears of Sorrow, Words of Hope, vol.2: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Death Chants. Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation.
Sweeney, Amin
	1987	A Full Hearing: Orality and Literacy in the Malay World. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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ASIA

Barua, Birinchi Kumar
	1964	History of Assamese Literature. Honolulu: East-West Center Press.
Blackburn, Stuart H., with Peter J. Claus, Joyce B. Flueckiger, and Susan B. Wadley, eds.
	1989	Oral Epics of India. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Dimcock, Edward
	1975	The Literature of India: An Introduction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lindell, Kristina; Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin
	1977	A Kammu Story-Listener’s Tales. London: Curzon Press.
	1980	Folk Tales from Kammu - II: A Story-Teller’s Tales. London: Curzon Press.
	1984	Folk Tales from Kammu - III: Pearls of Kammu Literature. London: Curzon Press.
	1989	Folk Tales from Kammu IV: A Master-Teller’s Tales. London: Curzon Press.
	1995	Folk Tales from Kammu V: A Young Story-Teller’s Tales. London: Curzon Press.
	1998	Folk Tales from Kammu VI: A Teller’s Last Tales. London: Curzon Press.
Lindell, Kristina, Håkan Lunström, Jan-Olof Svantesson and Damrong Tayanin.
	1982	The Kammu Year: Its Lore and Music. London: Curzon Press.
Lundström, Håkan and Damrong Tayanin
	2006	Kammu Songs: The Songs of Kam Raw. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
Lundström, Håkan
	2010	I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the Singing of Kam Raw. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Kàm Ràw (Damrong Tayanin), Kristina Lindell and Håken Lunström
	2014	Dictionary of Kammu Yùan Language and Culture. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
Wickett, Elizabeth
	2012	Case Study: Picassos of the Thar Desert: A Textile Tradition in Jaisalmer. Sabah Oral Literature Project Publication No. 9. Phillips, ME: Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Wickett, Elizabeth
	2012	Seers, Saints and Sinners: The Oral Tradition of Upper Egypt. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd.
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Beckwith, Martha Warren
	1977	Hawaiian Mythology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Dixon, R.M.W. & G. Koch
	1996	Dyirbal Song Poetry: The Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest People. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
Feinberg, Richard
	1998	Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 15. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
	2018	Polynesian Oral Traditions: Indigenous Texts and English Translations from Anuta, Solomon Islands. The Kent State University Press, Kent Ohio.
Knappert, January
	1995	Pacific Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. London: Diamond Books.
LeRoy, John
	1985	Kewa Tales. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press.
Lim Pui Huen, P., with James H. Morrison, and Kwa Chong Guan, eds.
	1998	Oral History in Southeast Asia: Theory and Method. Singapore: National Archives of Singapore and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Meyer, David
	2013	Early Tahitian Poetics. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Rumsey, A. & D. Niles (ed.)
	2011	Sung Tales from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Studies in Form, Meaning and Sociocultural Context. Canberra: ANU EPress.
Sweeney, Amin
	1994	Malay Word Music: A Celebration of Oral Creativity. Kuala Lampur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Weissner, Polly and Akii Tumu
	1998	Historical Vines: Networks of Exchange, Ritual and Warfare Among the Enga of Papua New Guinea. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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EUROPEAN AND ANGLO-AMERICAN

Beyer, Harald
	1979	A History of Norwegian Literature. Einar Haugen, ed. and trans. New York: New York University Press for The American Scandinavian Foundation.
Byock, Jesse L., ed.
	1990	The Sage of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Davenport, Tony
	2004	Medieval Narrative: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Foley, John Miles
	1990	Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Friberg, Eino, trans.
	1988	The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People. George C. Schoolfield, ed. Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company.
Ginzburg, Carlo
	1991	Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath. New York: Pantheon.
Herzfeld, M
	1977	Ritual and Textual Structures: the Advent of Spring in Rural Greece. In Text and Context: The Social Anthropology of Tradition, ed. R.K. Jain, p. 29-50. Philadelphia: Inst. Study Hum. Issues.
Kalinke, Marianne E.
	1990	Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland. Islandica XLVI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Johnston, George, trans.
	1994	Thrand of Gotu: Two Icelandic Sagas. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine Press.
Putter, Ad W.
	1996	An Introduction to the Gawain-poet. London: Longman.
Revel, Nicole
	2000	The Quest for a Wife (La Quête en épouse). Paris: Langues & Mondes/L'Asiatheque and UNESCO.
Watkins, Calvert
	1995	How to Kill a Dragon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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NATIVE AMERICAN AND FIRST NATIONS

Cruikshank, Julie
	2000	The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in The Yukon Territory. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Darnell, Regna
	1974	Correlates of Cree Narrative Performance. In Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. London: Cambridge University Press.
Dauenhauer, Nora Mark, and Richard Dauenhauer, eds
	1987	Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
de Laguna, Frederica, and Dale DeArmond
	1995	Tales from the Dena: Indian Stories from the Tanana, Koyukuk, and Yukon Rivers. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Hulan, Renée, and Renate Eigenbrod, eds.
	2008	Aboriginal Oral Tradition: Theory, Practice, Ethics. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
Hymes, Dell
	1977	Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative. New Literary History 8: 431-458.
	1981	"In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mishler, Craig, and William E. Simeone
	2004	Han: People of the River- Hän Hwëch’in. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.
Mishler, Craig, ed.
	2001	Neerihiinjik: We Traveled from Place to Place. The Gwich’in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank. 2nd Edition.Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center.
Nadasdy, Paul
	2003	Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Preston, Richard J.
	2002	Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meaning of Events. Second Edition. McGill-Queen’s University.
Ruppert, James, and John W. Bernet, eds.
	2001	Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Tedlock, Denis
	1972	Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians. Trans. Denis Tedlock. New York: The Dial Press.
Tikalsky, Frank, and Catherine A. Euler
	2010	The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai. University of New Mexico Press.
Treuer, Anton
	2001	Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories. Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN

Koelewijn, C. And P. Riviere
	1987	Oral Literature of the Trio Indians of Surinam. Caribbean Series no. 6. Hawthorne, NY: Foris Publications.
Saíz, Próspero
	1996	Chants of Nezahualcoyotl and Obsidian Glyph. Madison: Ghost Pony Press.
Schwarz, Anne
	2014	Secoya Oral Traditions, Vol. 1+2. Berlin: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform.

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THEORY AND PRACTICE

Appell, G. N., and Laura W. R. Appell
	2012	The Sabah Oral Literature Project: Theory and Methods. Sabah Oral Literature Project Publication No. 1. Phillips, ME: Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Baum, Richard
	1986	Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baum, Willa K.
	1977	Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History.
Bauman, Richard
	1975	Verbal Art as Performance. American Anthropologist 77: 290-311.
	1986	Story, Performance, and Event. Cambridge: University of Cambridge.
Brogan, Terry V. F.
	1996	The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Dundes, Alan
	1987	Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Dundes, Alan, ed.
	1984	Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press.
	1988	The Flood Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Elliott, Jane
	2005	Using Narrative in Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publications.
Finnegan, Ruth
	1992	Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices. ASA Research Methods. London: Routledge Press.
Fussell, Paul
	1979	Poetic Meter and Poetic Form: Revised Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Georges, Robert A.
	1969	Towards an Understanding of Storytelling Events. Journal of American Folklore 82: 313-328.
Gossen, Gary H.
	1972	Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior in Americo Paredes and Richard Bauman (eds.) Towards New Perspectives in Folklore. Austin: The University of Texas Press: 146-167.
	1989 (1974)	To speak with a heated heart: Chamula canons of style and good performance. In Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, 2nd Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press: 389-413.
Gunn, Giles
	1987	The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hobsbaum, Philip
	1996	Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. London: Routledge Press.
Hoopes, James
	1979	Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Ives, Edward D.
	1974	The Tape-recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Jung, C. G., and C. Kerenyi
	1963	Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myths of the Divine Child and the Divine Maiden. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Karpeles, Maud, ed.
	1958	The Collecting of Folk Music and Other Ethnomusicological Material: A Manual for Field Workers. London: International Folk Music Council and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Kovach, Margaret
	2010	Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Leach, Edmund
	1961	Levi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden: An Examination of Some Recent Development in the Analysis of Myth. Transactions of the New York Academy of Science series 2: 23(4): 386-396.
Leach, Edmund, ed.
	1967	The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. London: Tavistock Publications.
Leach, Edmund
	1969	Genesis as Myth and Other Essays. London: Jonathan Cape.
Leeming, David, and Margaret Leeming
	1994	A Dictionary of Creation Myths. New York: Oxford University Press.
LeRoy, John
	1985	Fabricated World. An Interpretation of Kewa Tales. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press.
Levi-Strauss, Claude
	1955	The Structural Study of Myth. In Myth: A Symposium. Thomas A. Sebeok, ed. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society.
	1969	The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to Science of Mythology: 1. New York: Harper and Row.
	1973	From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 2. New York: Harper and Row.
	1978	Myth and Meaning. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
	1984	Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951-1982. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lomax, Alan
	1968	Folk Song Style and Culture. Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science publication no. 88.
	1976	Cantometrics: an approach to the anthropology of music. Audio cassettes and handbook. University of California Extension Media Center.
Lord, Albert Bates
	1938	Homer and Huso II: Narrative Inconsistencies in Homer and Oral Poetry. Transactions of the American Philological Association 69:439-445.
	1951a	Composition by Theme in Homer and South Slavic Epos. Transactions of the American Philological Association 82:71-80.
	1951b	Yugoslav Epic Poetry. International Folk Music Journal 3:57-61.
	1953	Homer’s Originality: Oral Dictated Texts. Transactions of the American Philological Association 84:124-134.
	1956	The Role of Sound Patterns in Serbo-Croatian Epic. In For Roman Jakobson. Pp. 301-305. The Hague: Mouton.
	1959	The Poetics of Oral Creation. In Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Werner P. Friedrich, ed. Pg 1-6. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
	1960	The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
	1962	Homeric Echos in Bihac. Zbornik za narodno zivot I obicaje juznih slavena 40:313-320.
	1965	Beowulf and Odysseus. In Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. Jess B. Bessinger and Robert P. Creed, eds. New York: New York University Press.
	1967a	Homer as an Oral Poet. Harvard Studies in Classic Philology 72:1-46.
	1967b	The Influence of a Fixed Text. In To Honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (11 October 1966). Pp. 1199-1206l Janua Linguarum, Series Major, No. 32, vol 2. The Hague: Mouton.
	1969	The Theme of the Withdrawn Hero in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic. Prilozi za knjizevost, jezik, istoriju I folklor 35:18-30.
	1970	Tradition and the Oral Poet: Homer, Huso and Avdo Medjedovic. In Atti del convegno internazionale sul tema: La poesia epica e la sua formazione, edited by Enrico Cerulli et al. Pp. 13-28. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, no 139. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
	1971	An Example of Homeric Qualities of Reception in Medjedovic’s “Smailagic Meho” In Seta Slavica In Memorium Aloisii Schmuas: Gedenkschrift fur Alois Schmuas. Wolfgang Gesemann, Johannes Holthusen, Erwin Koschmieder, Ilse Kunert, Peter Rehder, and Erwin Wedel, eds. Pp. 458-464. Munich: Rudolf Trofenik.
	1972	The Effect of the Turkish Conquest on Balkan Oral Tradition. In Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change. Henrick Birnbaum and Speros Vryonis, Jr., eds. Pp. 298-318. The Hague: Mouton.
	1975	Perspectives on Recent Works on Oral Literature. In Oral Literature: Seven Essays. Joseph Duggan, ed. Pp. 41-61. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
	1976	The Traditional Song. In Oral Literature and The Formula. Benjamin Stoltz and Richard S. Shannon III, eds. Pp. 1-15. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies.
	1981	Memory, Fixity and Genre in Oral Tradition Poetries. In Oral Traditional Literature. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 451-461. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.
	1986a	The Merging of Two Worlds: Oral and Written Poetry as Carriers of Ancient Values. In Oral Tradition in Literature: Interpretation in Context. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 19-64. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
	1986b	Perspectives on Recent Work on the Oral Traditional Formula. Oral Tradition I:467-503.
	1987	The Nature of Oral Poetry. In Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry. John M. Foley, ed. Pp. 313-349. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.
	1991	Epic Singers and Oral Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Mackay, Nancy
	2007	Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive. Left Coast Press, Inc.
Maranda, Pierre, and Elli Kongas Maranda, eds.
	1971	Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
McGoldrick, Monica, and Randy Gerson
	1985	Genograms in Family Assessment. New York: W. W. Norton.
Mitchell, W. J. T., ed.
	1980	On Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nathhorst, Bertel
	1969	Formal or Structural Studies of Traditional Tales: The Usefulness of Some Methodological Proposals Advanced by Vladimir Propp, Alan Dundes, Claude Levi-Strauss and Edmund Leach. Acta Universitatis Stockhomiensis (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion) 9.
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger
	1988	Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes. New York: Macmillan.
Parry, Adam
	1971	The Making of Homeric Verse: the Collected Papers of Milman Perry. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Parry, Milman
	1923	A Comparitive Study of Diction as One of the Elements of Style in Early Greek Epic Poetry. M.A. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
	1928a	L’Ephithete traditionalle dans Homere: Essai sur un probleme de style homerique. In Les Belles Lettres. Paris: Societe Editrice.
	1928b	Les Formulares et la Métrique d’Homère. In Les Belles Lettres. Paris: Société Editrice.
	1929	The Distinctive Character of Enjambemet in Homeric Verse. Transactions of the American Philological Association 60:200-220.
	1930	Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making. I. Homer and Homeric Style. Harvard Studies in Classical Philosophy 41:73-147.
	1932	Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making. II. The Homeric Language as the Language of Oral Poetry. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 43:1-50.
	1933-35	Cor Huso: Studies of Southslavic Song. Field Notes, Expedition to Yugoslavia. 1936 On Typical Scenes in Homer. Classical Philology 31:57-60.
	1936	On Typical Scenes in Homer. Classical Philology 31:57-60.
	1937	About Winged Words. Classical Philology 32:59-63.
Rank, Otto, with Lord Raglan, and Alan Dundes
	1990	In Quest of the Hero. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Rubin, David C.
	1995	Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-Out Rhymes. New York: Oxford.
Schechner, Richard
	1994	Ritual and Performance in Tim Ingold (ed.) Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life. London: Routledge. 613-647.
Sillitoe, Paul
	1998	The Development of Indigenous Knowledge: A New Applied Anthropology. Current Anthropology 39(2):223-252.
Silverman, Sydel, and Nancy J. Parezo, eds.
	1995	Preserving the Anthropological Record. Second Edition. New York: Wenner-Gren.
Stolz, Benjamin A., and Richard S. Shannon III, eds.
	1976	Oral Literature and the Formula. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies.
Strenski, Ivan
	1987	Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Tedlock, Dennis
	1971	On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative. Journal of American Folklore 84: 114-133.
	1983	The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Vansina, Jan
	1961	Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
	1985	Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Wickett, Elizabeth
	2012	Patronage, Commodification, and the Dissemination of Performance Art: The Shared Benefits of Web Archiving. Oral Tradition 27(2):333-350.
Winsey, Valentine Rossilli
	1992	Your Self as History: Family History and Its Effects on Your Personality: A Research Guide. New York: Pace University Press.
Wuthnow, Robert, et al.
	1984	Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE
TRANSITION FROM AN ORAL SOCIETY

Goody, Jack
	1977	The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
	1986	The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
	1987	The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ong, Walter
	1982	Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World. London and New York: Methuen.
Street, Bryan V.
	1994	The Aspects of Literacy. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Tim Ingold, ed. Pp. 527-562. London and New York: Routledge.

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INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR UNDERSTANDING
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOR THE CULTURAL DICTIONARY

Fernandez, J.
	1974	The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture. Current Anthropology 15:119-33.
Fernandez, James W., ed.
	1991	Beyond Metaphor. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Johnson, Mark
	1987	The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Johnson, Mark, ed.
	1981	Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Lakoff, George
	1987	Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson
	1980	Metaphors We Live By. London: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Turner
	1989	More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mac Cormac, Earl R.
	1985	A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Ortony, Andrew, ed.
	1993	Metaphor and Thought, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosaldo, M.Z.
	1972	Metaphors and Folk Classification. Southwest Journal of Anthropology 28: 83-99.
Sapir, J. David, and J. Christopher Crocker
	1977	The Social Use of Metaphor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Turner, Mark
	1987	Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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TRANSLATION

Becker, A.L.
	2000	Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Nida, Eugene A.
	1964	Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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