The Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project was established in December 2000 in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge with three objectives: 1. to pre...

Oral Literature in Africa

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Ruth Finnegan et al. (7 févr. 2014)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan...

Digital Himalaya

Billets de blog

Zoe Headley (7 févr. 2013)

Billets de blog

A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. VIEW THE ARCHIVE The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographi...

A Grammar of the Thangmi Language

Billets de blog

Nicolas Sihlé (19 mars 2012)

Billets de blog

A noteworthy publication: linguist and anthropologist Mark Turin's impressive 996-page study of the Thangmi language (in 2 volumes) is now out, in Brill's "Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region" series: Turin, M., 2012, A grammar of the Thangmi language : With an ethnolinguistic introduction to...

Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Reflections on Partnership [Presentation file].

Colloques et conférences

Daniela Merolla (10 déc. 2010)

Colloques et conférences

This paper presents the project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences that focuses on multimedia as a tool for ‘sharing’ documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres. The increasing numbe...