Oral Tradition Journal at Harvard University

An open-access journal devoted to the study of the world’s oral traditions, past and present.

May 2023

Volume 36, Number 1

Editor’s Column

I am pleased to present to readers Oral Tradition Volume 34, comprising four essays that demonstrate, in the diversity of…

Unraveling the Knot: A Microethnography of the Use of Proverbs, Proverbial Language, and Surrogate Languages in an Akan Royal Court

Edmund Asare

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72 Click here to access the eCompanion. Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly…

Back in the Foundation: Chauvinistic Scholarship and the Building Sacrifice Story-Pattern

Dorian Jurić

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):3-44 1 On an 1820-21 trip into the fledgling Serbian Principality, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (hereafter “Vuk”), the…

About the Authors

Oral Tradition Volume 34 Dorian Jurić Dorian Jurić is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, folklorist, and railroad maintenance foreman whose research…

Orality and Social Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Nicole G. Burgoyne

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):105-20 As any reader of Lolita knows, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is characterized by the strong, central voice…

Learning to be Satisfied: Navajo Poetics, a Chattering Chipmunk, and Ethnopoetics

Anthony K. Webster

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):73-104 In memory of Barre Toelken1 “This is so, isn’t it?” —F. R. Leavis (1972:62) “Hane’ doo…

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