Orality etc.: references

[Birgit Kellner]

I have received a number of private e-mail-messages with reference to my
initial query. They contained the following references to publications
which I thought of general interest: 

Vasudha Narayanan (1984); The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation
and Ritual. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (includes,
according to the author, descriptions of how the Tiruvaymoli is learned
and transmitted today). 

C. Mackenzie Brown (1986): Purana as Scripture: From Sound to Image of
the Holy Word in the Hindu Tradition." _History of Religions_ 26, no. 1
(1986) 68-86. (allegedly a critique of Ong). 

Olson, David, The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive
Implications of Writing and Reading, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994

Cousins, Lance, "Pali Oral Literature" in Buddhist Studies Ancient and
Modern. London: Center of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and
African Studies, 1983

Gethin, Rupert, "The MAtikas: Memorization, Mindfulness, and the List"
in The Mirror of Memory, ed. by Janet Gyatso State University of New
York Press, 1992, pp.149-172.

von Hinueber, Oskar. Der Beginn der Schrift und fruhe Schriftlichkeit in
Indien. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur [Mainz],
Abhandlungen der geistes-und-sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse Nr. 11,
Wiesbaden,Steiner, 1989. 

Von Hinueber, Oskar. Untersuchungen zur Muendlichkeit frueher
mittelindischer Texte der Buddhisten.  Untersuchungen zur
Sprachgeschichte und Handschriftenkunde des Pali, Vol. 3 Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur [Mainz], Abhandlungen der
geistes-und-sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Vol. 5, Wiesbaden, Steiner,
1994. 

Regards, 
-- 
Birgit Kellner
Department for Indian Philosophy
Hiroshima University