Digitizing, preserving and sharing
endangered oral literature online

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Tales of Darkness and Light: The Old Days of theKhasis
Janet Hujon (ed.)
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/746/

Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghulof Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese,and English
Li Dechun and Gerald Roche
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/638/

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia
in Africa
Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (eds.)
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/590/

Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
Linguistic work by A.M. Halpern and Amy Miller
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/142/

Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Originsof the Quechan People
George Bryant (linguistic work by Amy Miller)
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/141/

Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality
and Connecting with Communities
Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson (eds.)
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/186/

Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method,
Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Robert Cancel
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/137/

Oral Literature in Africa
Ruth Finnegan
See http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/97/

How to Read a Folktale: The ‘Ibonia’ Epic fromMadagascar
Lee HaringSee http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/109/

Open Book Publishers are proud to produce the World Oral Literature series inpartnership with the World Oral Literature Project, directed by Professor Mark
Turin at the University of British Columbia. Including some of our most-readtitles, this series exists to preserve and promote the oral literatures of indigenous
people by publishing materials on endangered traditions in innovative ways.
These books allow the reader to see and hear as well.
Lying at the intersection of anthropology and linguistics, the study of oral genres
is an exciting and developing field, but one with few publishing outlets. We offer
researchers the opportunity to present recordings of the oral literature they
discuss within the book, preserving the richness and contextual meaning of oral
narratives and allowing their representation and reuse. Striking and original,
this series makes dissemination of such unique literary traditions possible forthe first time.
As with all books published by OBP, the World Oral Literature Series is available
in multiple formats including a free HTML edition and a free PDF download,
together with two ebook formats (epub and mobi), paperback and hardback
editions. We have successfully harnessed the innovative crowd-sourcing project
unglue.it to fund free digital editions for Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in
Africa and Janet Hujon’s translation of Soso Tham’s poetry, Tales of Darknessand Light: The Old Days of the Khasis.
If you have any questions about the World Oral Literature Series, or would
like to submit a manuscript for consideration, please contact OBP’s ManagingDirector, Dr Alessandra Tosi (a.tosi@openbookpublishers.com) or visit us atwww.openbookpublishers.com.
OBP offers authors, academic groups and institutions• Full copyright, and complete control over the reproduction of their work
• Reduced time between submission and publication• Rigorous and constructive peer review and editorial processes• The flexibility to include supplementary material online, and to amend
the book after it has been published• Recognition for research appraisals• An Open Access edition, which means more readers and potentiallymore citations