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Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment

Front Matter


LDD 8 Table of contents

  • Imogen Gunn
  • Mark Turin

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment

Editor's Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 8)

  • Imogen Gunn
  • Mark Turin

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 5-12

Research Articles


Rewards and Issues in Studying Oral Literature: Some personal reflections

  • Ruth Finnegan

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 13-26

Reading the Lontars: Endangered literature practices of Lombok, eastern Indonesia

  • Peter K. Austin

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 27-48

Recording Oral Literature in a Literate Society: A case study from the northern Philippines

  • Roger Blench
  • Fredeliza Campos

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 49-65

Documenting Ceremonial Dialogues: An in vitro performance and the problem of textualisation

  • Martin Gaenszle

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 66-82

The Parched Grain Chant: Parallel verse and simultaneous action in Magar rituals

  • Michael Oppitz

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 83-124

Re-sounding the Spirits of Altaian Oral Epic Performance: Kai throat-singing and its repercussions

  • Carole Pegg

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 125-139

Participatory Culture Documentation on the Tibetan Plateau

  • Gerald Roche
  • Ban+de mkhar
  • Bkra shis bzang po
  • G.yu lha
  • Snying dkar skyid
  • Tshe ring rnam gyal
  • Zla ba sgrol ma
  • Charles Kevin Stuart

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 140-158

‘Producing’ Thangmi Ritual Texts: Practice, performance and collaboration

  • Sara Shneiderman

Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 159-174