Oral Tradition (and Archaeology) Bibliography

{compiled by Meggan Blessing and Asa Randall}


 
Cohen, William David
1989 The Undefining of Oral Tradition. Ethnohistory 36(1): 9-18.

Day, Gordon M.
1972 Oral Tradition as Complement. Ethnohistory 19(2): 99-108.

Dongoske, K. E., M. Yeatts, R. Anyon and T. J. Ferguson
1997 Archaeological Cultures and Cultural Affiliation: Hopi and Zuni Perspectives in the American Southwest. American Antiquity 62:600-608.

Echo-Hawk, R. C.
2000 Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time. American Antiquity 65:267-290.

Levi-Strauss, Claude
1966 The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, excerpt pp. 228-237.

Lowie, Richard H.
1917 Oral Tradition and History. The Journal of American Folklore 30(116):161-167.

Hendon, Julia A.
2000 Having and Holding: Storage, Memory, Knowledge and Social Relations. American Anthropologist 102: 42-53.

Mason, R.
2000 Archaeology and Native North American Oral Traditions. American Antiquity 65:239-266.

Meskell, L.
2001 Archaeologies of Identity. In Archaeological Theory Today, edited by I. Hodder, pp. 187-213. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2002 The Intersections of Identity and Politics in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:279-301.

Miller, Jay
1998 Tsimshian Ethno-Ethnohistory: A "Real" Indigenous Chronology. Ethnohistory 45(4): 657-674. 

Morphy, Howard
1995 Landscape and the Reproduction of the Ancestral Past. In The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space, edited by Eric Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon, pp. 184-209. Oxford: Claredon Press.

Parmentier, R. J.
1987 The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Pendergast, David M. and Clement W. Meighan
1959 Folk Traditions as Historical Fact: A Paiute Example. The Journal of American Folklore 72(284): 128-133. 

Steward, Julian 
1942 The Direct Historical Approach to Archaeology. American Antiquity 7:337-343.

Swidler, N., K. E. Dongoske, R. Anyon, and A. S. Downer (editors)
1997 Native Americans and Archaeologists, Stepping Stones to Common Ground. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press.

Vansina, J.
1985 Oral Tradition as History. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

Weiner, Annette B.
1992 Introduction. Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving. Berkley: University of California Press. pp. 1-19.

Whiteley, P.
2002 Archaeology and Oral Tradition: The Scientific Importance of Dialogue. American Antiquity 67.