Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities


 * Editors
 * Contributors
 * Introduction
 * I. Principles and Methods of Archiving and Conservation
 * 1. The Archive Strikes Back: Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights
 * Thomas Widlok
 * 2. Access and Accessibility at ELAR, a Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation
 * David Nathan
 * 3. Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation: Linking an Ethnographic Archive of Endangered Oral Traditions to Contemporary Contexts
 * Judith Aston and Paul Matthews


 * II. Engagements and Reflections from the Field
 * 4. Researchers as Griots? Reflections on Multimedia Fieldwork in West Africa
 * Daniela Merolla and Felix Ameka, in collaboration with Kofi Dorvlo
 * 5. American Indian Oral Literature, Cultural Identity and Language Revitalisation: Some Considerations for Researchers
 * Margaret Field
 * 6. Ecuador’s Indigenous Cultures: Astride Orality and Literacy
 * Jorge Gómez Rendón
 * 7. From Shrine to Stage: A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan
 * Madan Meena
 * 8. Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History Documentation
 * Ha Mingzong, Ha Mingzhu and C. K. Stuart


 * Index