Contents of FF Network 20
(November 2000)

• Toward the ethics of textualisation
• FFSS99 workshop reports: Folkloristic research ethics
  
• Classifying folktales:
  The third revision of the Aarne-Thompson tale type index
• Textualization of Oral Epics published
• New volumes of FFC
• FF Summer School 1999 papers published
• FFC reviews
• On caste and untouchability - without love (review) by Lauri Honko and B.A. Viveka Rai

Textualization of Oral Epics. Edited by Lauri Honko.
(Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 128.)
Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. viii + 392 pp.
ISBN 3-11-016928-2

Contents:

Introduction
   Lauri Honko, Text as process and practice: the textualization of oral epics

European epics
   Minna Skafte Jensen, The writing of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  John Miles Foley, The textualization of South Slavic oral epic and its implications for oral-derived epic
  Joseph Harris, Performance, textualization, and textuality of “elegy” in Old Norse

Turkic and Siberian epics
   Karl Reichl, Silencing the voice of the singer: problems and strategies in the editing of Turkic oral epics
   Arthur T. Hatto, Textology and epic texts from Siberia and beyond
   Juha Pentikäinen, “I lift you up, the dry throats” - on Nanaj shamanic epic

Indian epics
   John Brockington, The textualization of the Sanskrit epics
   Lauri Honko, Text and context in the textualization of Tulu oral epics

African epics
   John William Johnson, Authenticity and oral performance: textualizing the epics of Africa for Western audiences
   Jan Knappert, The textualization of Swahili epics
   Dwight F. Reynolds, Creating an epic: from apprenticeship to publication
   Dan Ben-Amos, The narrator as an editor

North-American and Oceanian epics
   Dell Hymes, Sung epic and Native American ethnopoetics
   Anna-Leena Siikala, Generic models, entextualization and creativity: epic tradition on the Southern Cook Islands