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Welcome to the Oral tradition task force of WikiProject Anthropology, and WikiProject Literature, where we collaborate to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of oral tradition. To join, just add your name to the participants section and maybe watch this page if you want. The project functions via consensus, there are no leaders or coordinators, anyone can suggest initiatives or ideas.

Scope

??(very broad scope, for example all pages that minimally discuss oral tradition and folklore etc.)??
Oral tradition covers...

Objectives

Our general goal is to clean up and improve existing articles, expand existing articles, and create new articles which all involve oral tradition (?)

(below this, the progress bars for certain milestones like at WP:MILHIST)

To do

Tag related articles by adding {{WikiProject Anthropology}} with the parameter |oral-tradition=yes to the top of the talk page.
(For an example see Talk:Oral tradition)
Notify editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them whether they might be interested.
Identify articles for creation
Identify articles for improvement
Review importance and quality of existing articles
Identify overlapping categories that might identify people's areas of interest, like by Countries' WPs, by topic like WP:History, WP:Religion etc.

To do items for anyone

Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology/Oral tradition/to do

Guidance

Tagging and assessment

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Anthropology and WikiProject Literature. You may also find {{WikiProject banner shell}} useful. To each of these banners, you should add oral-tradition = yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories., such as Category:Oral tradition taskforce articles.

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Anthropology and WikiProject Literature.

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Advice for recording and writing about an oral tradition

(expand WP:Oral history to provide guidelines and advice for people wanting record and write about an oral tradition)

Sources for people interested but unfamiliar

(please add any sources you've found useful for your understanding below!)

Milman Parry (1902-1935):
- "The Making of Homeric Verse: The collected papers of Milman Parry" (1971)
- the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
Albert Lord (1960), The Singer of Tales → read online
"Oral tradition as history" (Vansina, 1985), for traditional oral history
"A Review of African Oral Traditions and Literature" (Scheub, 1985)
"Les épopées d'Afrique noire" (Kesteloot [fr] & Dieng, 1997)
"A New Companion to Homer": chapter "Oral tradition and its implications" pgs 146–173 (Foley, 2011)
"The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore" (Akinyemi and Falola, 2021)

Featured/Good content

Featured articles

Good articles

DYKs

Participants

To join the Oral tradition taskforce, edit this section and copy-paste the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} followed by your areas of interest to the bottom of this list of members.

Kowal2701 (talk · contribs) 17:43:11, 27 July 2024 (UTC) – general interest, but mainly African traditional oral history[reply]
Zanahary (talk · contribs) 06:12:44, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – oral tradition of Madagascar[reply]
Vanderwaalforces (talk · contribs) 09:30:02, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – oral traditions of African states[reply]
Βατο (talk · contribs) 10:11:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – Albanian and general Balkan oral tradition.[reply]
Di (they-them) (talk · contribs) 11:27:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Revolution Saga (talk · contribs) 11:40:21, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – Armenian oral tradition[reply]
Ahiise2 (talk · contribs) 14:29:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – oral tradition of western Uganda[reply]
Ingwina (talk · contribs) 19:52:06, 28 July 2024 (UTC) – oral tradition of Northern Europe, especially England and Scandinavia[reply]
Elspamo4 (talk · contribs) 01:04:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC) – oral tradition of Persian Gulf countries[reply]
ShaveKongo (talk · contribs) 01:23:37, 29 July 2024 (UTC) – Papua New Guinea, Nordic countries, and North American indigenous cultures[reply]
Arthur Taksin (talk · contribs) 11:20:35, 29 July 2024 (UTC) – oral tradition of mainland Southeast Asia and Australia[reply]
SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) 06:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC) – primarily Gaelic and other Celtic[reply]
Durraz0 (talk · contribs) 12:12:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC) - European, primarily balkan oral traditions.[reply]
BlueSahelian (talk · contribs) 20:25:43, 31 July 2024 (UTC) - oral traditions of Northern Nigeria[reply]
Catjacket (talk · contribs) 02:42:38, 1 August 2024 (UTC) - West African, especially Senegambian / Mande[reply]
Bluerasberry (talk · contribs) 12:23, 1 August 2024 (UTC) I do oral history but the practice is similar and we all need to collaborate[reply]
Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk · contribs) 17:28:20, 1 August 2024 (UTC) interested in western folklore, especially in the JELLO belt area (Idaho, Utah, and Northern Arizona).[reply]
CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs) 16:41:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC) mainly Canadian Indigenous.[reply]
Pofka (talk · contribs) 13:04, 3 August 2024 (UTC) – Lithuanian oral tradition[reply]
Malaiya (talk · contribs) 3 August 2024 -India oral traditions
Cmacauley (talk · contribs) 17:28 3 August 2024 - General interest, mainly Native American oral traditions, captivity narratives
Nizil Shah (talk · contribs) 06:00:37, 4 August 2024 (UTC) - Western Indian oral traditions and folklore[reply]
Womtelo (talk · contribs) 13:05:03, 4 August 2024 (UTC) -- general interest + Homer + oral traditions in Melanesia & the Pacific + methodology of cross-culture comparison[reply]
Oramfe (talk · contribs) 18:57:56, 4 August 2024 (UTC) General interest in the history of the Lower Guinea region of West and Central Africa; (Spanning southern Cote D'Ivoire to southern Cameroon) but more specifically the sociopolitical and religious history of Yorubaland Oramfe (talk)[reply]
Adrian Vickers (talk · contribs) Oral traditions in Southeast Asia and their interface with literary traditions
Pakoire (talk · contribs) 02:46, 5 August 2024 (UTC) South Pacific Aoteraoa & arts - if feel I am a novice in this area but keen to be part of / learn from development of this taskforce[reply]
Miki Filigranski (talk · contribs) 07:31:56, 5 August 2024 (UTC) - General interest for European (Slavic and else), Asian, African when needed and is available reliable literature.[reply]
Rockethound (talk · contribs) 20:07:25, 5 August 2024 (UTC) folktales, urban legends and mythology[reply]
TRESISR (talk · contribs) 05:29:57, 7 August 2024 (UTC) oral tradition of Northern England, especially Norse mythology.[reply]

Resources

Bibliography

Schmidt, Peter R.; Mrozowski, Stephen A., eds. (2014). The Death of Prehistory. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199684595.

"Since the 18th century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained concept of prehistory – deeply entrenched in European minds up to the beginning of the 21st century – continues to deny history and historical identify to peoples throughout the world. The 14 essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history."