Oral tradition
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Oral tradition -- Africa
- Oral tradition -- Alaska
- Oral tradition -- Arabian Peninsula
- Oral tradition -- China
- Oral tradition -- Computer network resources
- Oral tradition -- Egypt
- Oral tradition -- England
- Oral tradition -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.)
- Oral tradition -- France
- Oral tradition -- Greece
- Oral tradition -- India
- Oral tradition -- India, North
- Oral tradition -- Indonesia
- Oral tradition -- Ireland
- Oral tradition -- Kenya
- Oral tradition -- Madagascar
- Oral tradition -- North America
- Oral tradition -- Periodicals
- Oral tradition -- Scotland
- Oral tradition -- South Africa
- Oral tradition -- Technological innovations
- Oral tradition -- United States
- Oral tradition -- West (U.S.)
- Oral tradition -- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)
- Oral-formulaic analysis
- Tradition, Oral
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Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Oral Literature in Africa (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Ruth H. Finnegan
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), ed. by Phyllis Morrow and William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), ed. by Phyllis Morrow and William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)
- Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2014), ed. by Jack Wei Chen and David Schaberg (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Popular Romances of the West of England, ed. by Robert Hunt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)
- Stories From Quechan Oral Literature (in Quechan and English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), ed. by Abraham M. Halpern and Amy Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)
- The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
- Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)
- The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1982), by Brenda E. F. Beck (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Kenneth M. George (HTML at UC Press)
- Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, by Jeremiah Curtin (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Fadiman (HTML at UC Press)
- How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Lee Haring (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Larry Evers and Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), by Simon J. Bronner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), ed. by Ernest Stromberg, contrib. by Matthew Dennis, Patricia Bizzell, Angela Pulley Hudson, Malea D. Powell, Janna Knittel, Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Karen A. Redfield, Robin Derosa, Anthony G. Murphy, Ellen L. Arnold, Peter D'Errico, and Richard Clark Eckert (page images at Pitt)
- Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
- DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction (Citadal Monograph Series #2; Charleston, SC: The Citadel, 1961), by Frank Durham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Oral Tradition (1986-) (full serial archives)
- Highland Superstitions, Connected With the Druids, Fairies, Witchcraft, Second-sight, Hallowe'en, Sacred Wells and Lochs, with Several Curious Instances of Highland Customs and Beliefs (Stirling, Scotland: E. MacKay; London: Gibbings and Co., 1901), by Alexander Macgregor
- Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
- Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Tales and Traditions Collected Entirely from Oral Sources (Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1902), by John Gregorson Campbell
- Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), by Robert Cancel (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
- Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Folklore- Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara Walker (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Alan Dundes, ed. by Simon J. Bronner
- Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #55; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1997), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy (page images at unt.edu)
- Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society (partial serial archives)
- A Book of Folk-Lore, by S. Baring-Gould (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ethnology in Folklore (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892), by George Laurence Gomme
- The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, by Thomas Keightley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk Tales From Many Lands (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1910]), by Lilian Gask, illust. by Willy Pogány (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folklore as an Historical Science (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), by George Laurence Gomme (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- An Introduction to Folk-Lore (London: David Nutt, 1895), by Marian Roalfe Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
- The Magic of the Horse-Shoe. With Other Folk-Lore Notes, by Robert Means Lawrence (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London: Printed for the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., 1881), by John Aubrey, ed. by James Britten
- Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale, by Edward Clodd (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Die Polyphemsage in der Volksüberlieferung (in German; Helsinki: Frenckellska Tryckeri-Aktiebolaget, 1904), by Oskar Hackman
- Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life (3 volumes; Chicago and Milwaukee: J. H. Yewdale and Sons co., c1903), ed. by Cora Linn Daniels and C. M. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts (continually updated anthology), ed. by D. L. Ashliman (HTML at Pitt)
- Greek Folk-Songs From the Ottoman Provinces of Northern Hellas (with essays on paganism and folklore; second edition; London: Ward and Downey, 1888), ed. by John S. Stuart-Glennie, trans. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
- The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry into Fairy Mythology, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Strange Story Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
- Symbolism of the East and West (London: G. Redway, 1900), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations (London et al.: G. Routledge And Sons, 1894), ed. by E. F. King
- The Natural Genesis (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1883), by Gerald Massey
- This Way to Christmas (based on the 1916 edition, with commentary), by Ruth Sawyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Curiosities of Olden Times (London: J. T. Hayes; New York: Pott and Amery, 1869), by S. Baring-Gould
- Curiosities of Olden Times (revised and enlarged edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould
- De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Launcelot D. Dowdall
- The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.