Ibiblio - Nepal And Tibet Traditional and contemporary Nepalese songs. A collection of traditional Nepalese of both traditions, as well as the cultural exchange between them. http://www.ibiblio.org/index.old/index.feb2003.html
Notebook A myth is a traditional story that usually occurs in a timeless past and Greek myth as we see it in Homer is an elaborate combination of mythical http://www.noteaccess.com/THEMES/Myth.htm
Extractions: Notebook THEMES, TOPICS, ISSUES Oriental Antiquities [Ernest Babelon] - Ancient Greek Beliefs Mythical Themes in Greek Art [Otto Brendel] - Ancient Greek Literature The Tech Classics Archive [M.I.T.] - The Golden Bough [Sir James George Frazer] - The Modern Tradition on Myth [Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr, eds.] Story, Parable, Allegory, Popular Belief or Tradition, Notion . . . . Traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon . . . . A popular belief or tradition that has grown up around some thing or someone; esp: one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society . . . . Legends . . . . The myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular reople . . . . A branch of knowledge . . . . Existing only in the imagination; Fictitious, Imaginary. . . .
Extractions: Talashoma 1983 (AI) Herschel Talashoma, narr. Hopitutuwutsi: Hopi Tales. Rec. and trans. Ekkehart Malotki, illus. Anne-Marie Malotki. Sun Tracks, 9. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press. A collection of 42 brief oral tales in a facing-page bilingual format, followed by a glossary of names and terms (and a brief phonology) and a selected bibliography. Tannen 1980a (MG, US, TH, CP) Deborah Tannen. "A Comparative Analysis of Oral Narrative Strategies: Athenian Greek and American English." In The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production. Advances in Discourse Processes, vol. 3. Ed. Wallace L. Chafe. Norwood: Ablex. pp. 51-89. A linguistic analysis of contrastive synchronic rhetorics in the conversation of these two geographically and culturally defined groups of speakers. Tannen 1980b (TH) Deborah Tannen. "Implications of the Oral/Literate Continuum for Cross-Cultural Communication." In Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1980. Ed. J. Alatis. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. pp. 326-47. After a brief review of oral theory and its applications, she applies the research of such scholars as Lord, Havelock, and Ong to a study of communication between (a) natives of different countries, (b) compatriots of different cultural, ethnic, or geographic backgrounds, and (c) men and women. Suggests that "the key distinction is not between orality vs. literacy as such, but between strategies that have been associated with oral and literate tradition which can be employed in any mode" (p. 326), that is, that the most important distinction must be made between communication that assumes a shared, inexplicit traditional knowledge versus detached and decontextualized communication that downplays the speaker/audience interaction.
