Topics in Social, Cultural and/or Linguistic Anthropology

How to Read an Oral Poem. John Miles Foley. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002

Foley, What the Oral Poets Say (in Their Own "Words") and First Word: What is Oral Poetry? (HROP pp. 11

Morrow, On Shaky Ground: Folklore, Collaboration, and Problematic Outcomes. (WOWR pp. 27-51)

Cruikshank, Pete’s Song: Establishing Meanings Through Story and Song. (WOWR pp. 52-75)

Foley, Second Word: Contexts and Reading. (HROP pp. 58-78)

Bauman, Richard 1975 Verbal Art as Performance. American Anthropologist 77(2): pp. 290-311. (Available online at JSTOR and AnthroSource)

Foley, Third Word: Being There: Performance Theory. (HROP pp. 79-94)

Tedlock, Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry

Briggs, Charles and Richard Bauman 1992 Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(2): 131-172

Bakhtin, M. The Problem of Speech Genres. (excerpts)

Foley, Sixth Word: A Poor Reader's Almanac. (HROP 125-145)

Foley, Fifth Word: Traditional Implications: Immanent Art. (HROP pp. 109-124) Recorded Excerpts from the Serbo-Croatian Folksongs featured in The Singer of Tales

Partnow, The Days of Yore: Alutiiq Mythical Time. (WOWR pp. 138-183)

Schneider, Lessons From Alaska Natives About Oral Traditions and Recordings. (WOWR pp. 185-204)

Odden, The Weight of Tradition and the Writer’s Work. (WOWR pp. 205-222)

Foley, Seventh Word and/or Eighth Word, HROP pp. 146-218

Hilbert, Vi [taœSeblu] 1995 “Memories.” In Xeçusede? ?e GeœulCe?: Aunt Susie Sampson Peter; The Wisdom of a Skagit Elder, transcribed by Vi Hilbert, translated by Vi Hilbert and Jay Miller, pp. 15-39. Seattle: Lushootseed Press

Keane, Chapter Four: Loaded Terms

Barker, Seeing Wisely, Crying Wolf: A Cautionary Tale on the Euro-Yupik Border. (WOWR pp. 98-122)

Asch, Michael 2014. On Being Here to Stay: Treaties And Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press