“It Has Not Yet Become Pacified”
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):3-36 The Mahābhārata and Ramāyaṇa present us with eight primary and embedded narratives in which an archer (usually a royal member of… Read More
Editor’s Column
This latest issue of Oral Tradition arrives somewhat later than the editors had hoped. It took us some time to regroup after producing our last… Read More
About the Authors
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… Read More
Ethnopoetic Transcription and Multimodal Archives
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… Read More
The Religious Textual Heritage of the Yārsān (Ahl-e Haqq)
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):331-40 The Yārsān This paper will discuss the complex “textual” heritage of the Yārsān of western Iran and northern Iraq, which is… Read More
The Yezidi Religious Music
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):309-30 1. Introduction: Types of Performances and Learning Techniques While the Yezidi religious textual tradition, including its collection, translation, and analysis, has… Read More
The Village Chronotope in the Genre of Iraqi Yezidi Wedding Songs
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):293-308 Introduction Among the world’s roughly one million Yezidis, adherents of a monotheistic faith that does not accept converts or allow marriage… Read More
Editors’ Column
By Philip Kreyenbroek, Khanna Omarkhali Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):191-192 The contribution that various branches of… Read More
Early Zoroastrianism and Orality
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):199-210 Most readers of Oral Tradition may not be overly concerned with the oral transmission of premodern compositions. Those who study the… Read More
On the Edge between Literacy and Orality
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):211-50 1. Today’s Performance of the Long Liturgy The Long Liturgy (later LL) is the main Zoroastrian ritual. The central part… Read More