Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the l…
Setting the stage -- Archives administration -- Legal & ethical issues -- Recording technology -- Transcribing -- Cataloging -- Preservation -- Oral histories on the internet -- Challenges of the 21st century.
Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. In 'Medieval Oral Literature' in the 'De Gruyter Lexikon' series, an international team of scholars has provided an in-depth discussion both of theore…
Homeric Stitchings is a study in the performative aspects of ancient reading, the processes of human memory, and the reception of Homeric poetry as oral poetry in later antiquity. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Homer, the Bible, and comparative literatu…
Presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.
