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Book SynopsisOrality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Map of Selected Place Names Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Part One: Questioning Truths 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling J. Edward Chamberlin 2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor Carlson Part Two: Writing it Down 3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus Twyla Gibson 4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions Susan Gingell Part Three: Going Public 5. "Private Stories" in Aboriginal Literature Kristina Fagan 6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Part Four: Subverting Authority 7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy Gary Arbuckle 8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic Frank Klaassen Part Five: Uncovering Voices 9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902 Reynaldo Illeto 10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies Oksana Kis Contributors Index
