Oral Tradition

I am deeply grateful to the readers of Oral Tradition—and even more to the authors of the articles in these…

Lameen Souag

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):3–18 Introduction This article examines an apparently undocumented tale from northwestern Africa: a short, simply phrased dialogue…

Lameen Souag

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):19–21 Some years after completing the preceding article, the author came across what is so far the…

Tuomas Tammisto

Oral Tradition, 37/1 (2023):23–47 The tandaning is one of the song genres of the Wide Bay Mengen living in East…

Andrew Alter, D. R. Purohit

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):49–74 Paṇḍwāṇī is a term used in some parts of India to refer to the oral rendition…

Monire Akbarpouran

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):71–92 Introduction A hat, a mustache, an archaic costume.1 In the central square of Zanjān city—a hub…

Martin Worthington

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):97–137 1. Introduction What happens at the interface of Orality and Literacy?1 The societies of Ancient Mesopotamia…

Dorian Jurić

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):139-74 This song would be good if it were not so unnecessarily long.1 Although about 200 verse…

Ana Vukmanović

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):175–96 Introduction South Slavic oral lyric songs are characterized by subjectivity and emotionality. They follow human life…

Blaž Zabel

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):197–220 This article1 looks at the relationship between Matija Murko (1861-1952)2 and the two well known Harvard…

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned…