Oral Literature In The Digital Age: Archiving Orality And Connecting With Communities
by Mark Turin /
2013 / English / PDF
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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 fossilized 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.
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 fossilized 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.
