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