Oral Tradition

December 2021

Volume 35, Number 1

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Editor’s Column

Readers of Oral Tradition will find in this issue an exceptionally rich and varied assortment of topics. The six essays…

The Oral Style of the R̥gveda

George E. Dunkel

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):3-36 1. The Study of R̥gvedic Repetitions1  In the second volume of his 1877 edition of the R̥gveda,…

Epic Inside-Out: Qız Jibek and the Politics of Genre in Kazakh Oral Literature

Gabriel McGuire

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):37-66  In spite of ourselves, epic absorbs us.1 And then we encounter issues that are more tangled…

Coast Miwok Oral Tradition: Grammar and Ethnopoetic Organization in a California Context

Andrew Cowell

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):67-86  Little has been published on the oral traditions of the Coast Miwok that provides any information…

Founding Fathers, Patrons, Mothers, and Other Bertso-School Groupies

Larraitz Ariznabarreta Garabieta

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):87-102   In March, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced hundreds of thousands of Basque citizens into full…

The Musical Poetry of Endangered Languages: Kota and Wakhi Poem-Songs in South and Central Asia

Richard K. Wolf

Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):103-66 Many peoples of the world conceptualize what English speakers call poetry and music or song as…

Dynamics of Voiced Poetry: Popular Education through Wolof and Soninke Sufi Religious Texts

Cheikh Tidiane Lo

Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):167-88 Introduction In African Muslim societies, religious values are transmitted and reinforced through “voiced texts,” poetic texts…

About the Authors

Oral Tradition Volume 35, Number 1 George Eugene Dunkel After studying Greek, Sanskrit, and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in Paris, Philadelphia,…

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