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Oral literature in the digital age : archiving orality and connecting with communities / edited by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson.

Contributor(s): Series: World oral literature series ; Volume 2.Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 164 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781909254329
  • 1909254320
  • 9781909254336
  • 1909254339
  • 9781909254343
  • 1909254347
  • 1909254312
  • 9781909254312
  • 1909254304
  • 9781909254305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 398.2 23
LOC classification:
  • GR72
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Principles and Methods of Archiving and Conservation. The Archive Strikes Back : Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights / Thomas Widlok -- Access and Accessibility at ELAR, A Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation / David Nathan -- Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation : Linking an Ethnographic Archive of Endangered Oral Traditions to Contemporary Contexts / Judith Ashton and Paul Matthews -- Engagements and Reflections from the Field. Researchers as Griots? Reflections on Multimedia Fieldwork in West Africa / Daniela Merolla and Felix Ameka, in collaboration with Kofi Dorvlo -- American Indian Oral Literature, Cultural Identity and Language Revitalisation : Some Considerations for Researchers / Margaret field -- Ecuador's Indigenous Cultures : Astride Orality and Literacy / Jorge Gómez Rendón -- From Shrine to Stage : A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan / Madan Meena -- Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History Documentation / Ha Mingzong, Ha Mingzhu and C.K. Stuart.
Summary: Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Principles and Methods of Archiving and Conservation. The Archive Strikes Back : Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights / Thomas Widlok -- Access and Accessibility at ELAR, A Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation / David Nathan -- Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation : Linking an Ethnographic Archive of Endangered Oral Traditions to Contemporary Contexts / Judith Ashton and Paul Matthews -- Engagements and Reflections from the Field. Researchers as Griots? Reflections on Multimedia Fieldwork in West Africa / Daniela Merolla and Felix Ameka, in collaboration with Kofi Dorvlo -- American Indian Oral Literature, Cultural Identity and Language Revitalisation : Some Considerations for Researchers / Margaret field -- Ecuador's Indigenous Cultures : Astride Orality and Literacy / Jorge Gómez Rendón -- From Shrine to Stage : A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan / Madan Meena -- Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History Documentation / Ha Mingzong, Ha Mingzhu and C.K. Stuart.

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.

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