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Type-Token Ratio and Entropy as Measures to Characterize a Forgery of Oral-Formulaic Epics

Noel Spencer Published: Categories: English

Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):37-62  The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts (Rukopisy královédvorský a zelenohorský, together abbreviated “RKZ” in Czech) present an unusually successful case of literary forgery. These pseudo-medieval Czech manuscripts, presenting folk lyrics, ballads, and epic songs seemingly recorded in the late-thirteenth and in the ninth to tenth centuries, respectively, were taken by […]

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Temporal Patterning and “Degrees of Orality” in Occitan and French Oral Narrative

Noel Spencer Published: Categories: English

Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):91-122 Introduction This article explores tense usage and tense-switching in the temporal structuring of Occitan and French oral narratives, drawing on theoretical frameworks in linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as perspectives from anthropology and folklore studies.1 It forms part of a larger project, ExpressioNarration, financed by a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship, incorporating […]

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About the Authors

Noel Spencer Published: Categories: English

Oral Tradition Volume 36, Number 1 Taniela Bolea Born and bred in Ravitaki Village on the main island of Kadavu, Taniela Bolea graduated in management studies and rose to become the founding publisher of Fiji’s Daily Post newspaper. He was later appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Fiji Audio Visual Commission and today remains interested in […]

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Adele Clarke, Donna Haraway, Making kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Angela Balzano, Antonia Ferrante, Federica Timeto, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2022, pp. 234

Ilaria Santoemma Published: Categories: English · Italian · Multilingual

Book review of Adele Clarke, Donna Haraway, Making kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Angela Balzano, Antonia Ferrante, Federica Timeto, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2022, pp. 234.

Ethnopoetic Transcription and Multimodal Archives

Noel Spencer Published: Categories: English

Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):123-48 Slam is a relatively young genre of poetry, created in 1985 by a Chicago construction worker named Marc Smith, who sought to challenge ivory tower ideas about creating and evaluating poetry (Woods 2008:18). Extant slam poetry scholarship is neither as prolific nor as comprehensive as that on some of its performance […]

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Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, eds, Cultures in mountain areas. Comparative perspectives / Culture in aree di montagna. Prospettive comparative / Kuturenin Gebirgsregionen. Vergleichende Perspectiven, Bozen-Bolzano, University Press, 2022, pp. 310

Federica Toldo Published: Categories: English · Italian · Multilingual

Book review of Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, eds, Cultures in mountain areas. Comparative perspectives / Culture in aree di montagna. Prospettive comparative / Kuturenin Gebirgsregionen. Vergleichende Perspectiven, Bozen-Bolzano, University Press…

Heart of the Country

Len Kamerling Published: Categories: English

How can we create a world that will offer our children wisdom, humanity, responsibility and hope? Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way – by giving children a…

Oak Tree, Gum Tree

Catherine Gough-Brady Published: Categories: English

In Oak Tree, gum tree, a collaborative video work by award-winning filmmakers Catherine Gough-Brady and Christine Rogers, explores the way that audio-visual material can “embrace the complexity of the world” and “incorporate, within their structures an…

Tuo Dolphins

Rolf Erik Scott Published: Categories: English

Tuo Dolphins takes place in both Aarhus, Denmark and in the Reef islands, the Solomon Islands. Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. This include…

Where Things Go

Baptiste Aubert Published: Categories: English

In the mid-60s, in the small Belgian town of Verviers, most of the textile factories that had contributed to the town’s prosperity closed down. On witnessing the end of an epoch, the town council decided to put together a collection of old textile mach…

Tributary

James Davoll Published: Categories: English

Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. Tributary explores covert, ‘black-boxed’ data centres (remote and highly secure sit…