[INDOLOGY] Sources on Relationship btw Oral/Literary Traditions

[Mark McLaughlin]

Many, many heart felt thanks to Rosane Rocher, Lubomir Ondračka, and Dermot
Killingley for your generous responses. You've provided superb source
material for Emma and I know that many of us on this thread will also be
reading them.

With much appreciation,
Mark

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Mark McLaughlin <markasha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Indology mind-hive,
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> I have an undergraduate student who is interested in writing a paper on
> questions of oral and literary traditions. I would like to solicit your
> opinions on potential sources for her. Please see her message below for a
> more detailed delineation of her questioning.
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> Many thanks in advance!
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> Mark
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> Professor McLaughlin,
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> I read through a little more of the Pollock book last night to get a
> better feel for some questions. I think generally this is what I'm
> thinking:
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> What is the difference and relationship between the oral and literary
> tradition? How has that relationship evolved with the emergence of written
> texts, vernacularization, and the subsequent privileging of textual sources
> by the colonial West and the Academy? Who is excluded and/or included by
> the privileging of one kind of knowledge over the other? For scholars, what
> kind of nuanced understanding of literacy should be sought or acknowledged
> given that "to be literate" can mean different things in different
> cultures?
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> Let me know if this sounds like what I was talking about the other day!
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> Best,
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> Emma
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> --
> Mark McLaughlin
> *Visiting Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions*
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> *Department of Religious StudiesCollege of William and MaryWilliamsburg,
> VA*
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-- 
Mark McLaughlin
*Visiting Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions*


*Department of Religious StudiesCollege of William and MaryWilliamsburg, VA*


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