[INDOLOGY] Sources on Relationship btw Oral/Literary Traditions

[Tyler Williams]

One could also add:

Wilke, Annette, and Oliver. Moebus. *Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic
Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism*. Vol. v. 41. Religion and Society,.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011.

Brown, C. Mackenzie. “Purāṇa as Scripture: From Sound to Image of the Holy
Word in the Hindu Tradition.” *History of Religions* 26, no. 1 (August 1,
1986): 68–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/1062388.

Hess, Linda. *Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds
in North India*. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Lutgendorf, Philip. *The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of
Tulsidas*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Orsini, Francesca, and Katherine Butler Schofield. *Tellings and Texts:
Music, Literature and Performance in North India*. Place of publication not
identified: Open Book Publishers, 2015.
http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4386697.

A short but thoughtful overview of some of the difficulties of
characterizing the relationship between written texts and oral culture has
been given by Orsini and Schofield in *Tellings...* And then of course
Pollock compares the relationship between 'literacy' and writing in S. Asia
and Europe in *Language of the Gods*.

And, at the risk of self-promotion, I discuss these issues in the context
of early modern North India in my dissertation, which is available through
Columbia U's website.

All best,
Tyler



On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Mark McLaughlin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> 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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