About the Authors
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature… Read More
Editor’s Column
I am deeply grateful to the readers of Oral Tradition—and even more to the authors of the articles in these pages—for their patience in awaiting… Read More
“What Do You Want Money For?”
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):3–18 Introduction This article examines an apparently undocumented tale from northwestern Africa: a short, simply phrased dialogue between a man and a… Read More
About the Authors
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature… Read More
“A True Pioneer”
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):197–220 This article1 looks at the relationship between Matija Murko (1861-1952)2 and the two well known Harvard scholars,… Read More
Fragments of the Utopia of Contestation in South Slavic Oral Lyric Poetry
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):175–96 Introduction South Slavic oral lyric songs are characterized by subjectivity and emotionality. They follow human life from birth to death—from… Read More
Bringing Back Bakonja
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):139-74 This song would be good if it were not so unnecessarily long.1 Although about 200… Read More
Postscript
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):19–21 Some years after completing the preceding article, the author came across what is so far the closest parallel to “What Do… Read More
Orality, Literacy, and the Psychology of Babylonian-Assyrian Orthography
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):97–137 1. Introduction What happens at the interface of Orality and Literacy?1 The societies of Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and… Read More
Urbanization and Folklorization of the Ashiq Tradition in Contemporary Iran
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):71–92 Introduction A hat, a mustache, an archaic costume.1 In the central square of Zanjān city—a hub where the city’s… Read More