Orality and Literacy : Reflections Across Disciplines.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Selected Place Names -- Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche -- PART ONE: QUESTIONING TRUTHS -- 1 Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling -- 2 Orality about Literacy: The 'Black and White' of Salish History -- PART TWO: WRITING IT DOWN -- 3 The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus -- 4 The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: Print Textualization from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions -- PART THREE: GOING PUBLIC -- 5 'Private Stories' in Aboriginal Literature -- 6 From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies -- PART FOUR: SUBVERTING AUTHORITY -- 7 Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy in the Laozi -- 8 Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic -- PART FIVE: UNCOVERING VOICES -- 9 A Tagalog Awit of the 'Holy War' against the United States, 1899-1902 -- 10 Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Orality and Literacyinvestigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments.

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