World Oral Literature Books

Delve into the rich tapestry of global storytelling with the World Oral Literature Series. Discover timeless myths, legends, and folktales, preserved and presented for a new generation of readers. Start your journey today.

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World Oral Literature Series in Order:

  1. Narrating the Past in the Present: The Construction and Transmission of History in the Oral Traditions of the Turkic Peoples (2007)
  2. Text, Performance, and Community: Namibia and the Performing Arts (2008)
  3. Reclaiming the Past: Myth, Identity and the Historiography of Culture in the Southern Levant (2009)
  4. Secrecy and Concealment: Studies in the History of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Religions (2010)
  5. Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa (2011)
  6. Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Venetian Lagoon (2012)
  7. Oral Tradition and Book Culture: A Global Perspective (2014)
  8. Echoes of Memory: Trauma and the Narrative Arts (2015)
  9. Constructing Memory: Identity, Trauma and Narratives in Europe (2016)
  10. Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World: Patterns of Cultural Transmission (2017)
  11. The Living Heritage of Russian Traditional Music: National Identity in the Era of Globalization (2018)
  12. Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World: New Perspectives (2019)
  13. Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Memory and the Holocaust (2020)
  14. Orality, Textuality, and Authority in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (2021)
  15. Orality and the Qur'ān (2022)
  16. Music and Trauma: Historical Perspectives (2023)