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Book/Printed Material Oral literature in the digital age : archiving orality and connecting with communities

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Title

  • Oral literature in the digital age : archiving orality and connecting with communities

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.

Names

  • Turin, Mark, editor
  • Wheeler, Claire, editor
  • Wilkinson, Eleanor, editor

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2013.

Headings

  • -  Folk literature--History and criticism
  • -  Oral tradition--History

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  English.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 07, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xxiii, 164 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GR72

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019467802

Reproduction Number

  • 22573/ctt5qrb63

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Turin, Mark, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson, editor. Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting With Communities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019467802/.

APA citation style:

Turin, M., Wheeler, C. & Wilkinson, E., editor. (2013) Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting With Communities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019467802/.

MLA citation style:

Turin, Mark, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson, editor. Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting With Communities. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019467802/>.