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• 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)

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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
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• 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
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only

• 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
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• 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)

• Kenya: A Country Study (Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, c1984), by American University Foreign Area Studies and United States. Department of the Army, ed. by Harold D. Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach (London: UCL Press, c2016), ed. by Anne-Marie Deisser and Mugwima Njuguna, contrib. by Ephraim Wahome, Mwanzia D. Kyule, Orinda Shadrack Okumu, Lydia W. Muthuma, Teckla Muhoro, Gerryshom Kweya Munala, Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori, Francis Mwaura, Anthony Njeru Murithi, Evaristus Irandu, Parita Shah, Okello Benter, John Bosco Mukundi, Arnold Onyango, Ochieng' Aggrey Adimo, Robert Wambugu Rukwaro, Paul Abiero Opondo, Felix M. Kiruthu, and Susan Mwangi
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Kenya (1963), by Great Britain Central Office of Information (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shadows on the Grass (c1960), by Isak Dinesen (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• African Camp Fires, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)

• African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David K. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands (new edition; London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by Herbert Strang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael Fleisher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Obstacles to Tree Planting in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: Comparative Case Studies from India and Kenya, by Jeffery Burley (HTML at UNU Press)

• Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael Fleisher (page images at HathiTrust)

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