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

Front Matter


LDD 8 Table of contents

Imogen Gunn and Mark Turin

2010-07-31 Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment

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

Imogen Gunn and Mark Turin

2010-07-31 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

2010-07-31 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

2010-07-31 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 and Fredeliza Campos

2010-07-31 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

2010-07-31 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

2010-07-31 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

2010-07-31 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 and Charles Kevin Stuart

2010-07-31 Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 140-158

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

Sara Shneiderman

2010-07-31 Volume 8 • 2010 • Special Issue on Oral Literature and Language Endangerment • 159-174