Beschreibung:
This book deals with the language and orality of the indigenous people from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. It looks at oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, the nature of creativity of indigenous communities, the risk of a complete decline of their languages and conservation attempts.
Introduction; 1 Orality in Southeast Asia; 2 The languages in India and a movement in retrospect; 3 Indigenous languages of Arnhem Land; 4 Orality and writing in Spanish America: a translation perspective; 5 "How to write an oral culture": indigenous tradition in contemporary Canadian native writing; 6 Indigenous languages in Canada