Research Catalog

Title

Collecting and safeguarding the oral traditions : an international conference, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 16-19 August 1999, organized as a Satellite Meeting of the 65th IFLA General Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, 1999 / edited by John McIlwaine and Jean Whiffrin [i.e. Whiffin].

Publication

München : K.G. Saur, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• IFLA General Conference (65th : 1999 : Bangkok, Thailand)
• McIlwaine, John.
• Whiffin, Jean.

Description

viii, 158 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

IFLA publications ; 95

Uniform Title

IFLA publications ; 95.

Subjects

• Oral history > Congresses
• Oral tradition > Congresses
• Cultural property > Protection > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Safeguarding Papua New Guinean culture in the next millennium: educational reforms and preservation of cultural traditions / John D. Waiko 1 -- UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and oral tradition / Malama S. Meleisea 25 -- Technical aspects: care, handling and preservation: bibliography and glossary / Dietrich Schuller, Kevin Bradley 30 -- Regional studies -- Africa -- Importance of oral tradition for children: the case of the countries of the Sahel / Mbathio Sall 42 -- Oral tradition: from collection to digitization / A. Raphael Ndiaye 49 -- Oral tradition and libraries / Fatogoma Diakite 68 -- Asia -- Roles of libraries in promoting and preserving oral cultures / Khunying Maenmas Chavalit 73 -- Oral tradition in Thailand: a development perspective / Saneh Chamarik 75 -- SEAMP (South East Asian Mountain Peoples' Programmes) for culture and development / Leo Alting von Geusau 89 -- Inter-generational cultural transmission in Singapore / Chong Ching Liang 95 -- Europe -- Collecting and preserving the French oral heritage: the role of a national library / Joelle Garcia 105 -- Latin America & the Caribbean -- Cayman Islands Memory Bank: collecting and preserving oral history in small island societies / Heather R. McLaughlin 112 -- South America: two cases from Venezuela and Peru / Haydee Seijas 119 -- North America -- Traditional knowledge and northern wildlife management: the Arctic Circumpolar Route / Magdalena A. K. Muir, Lloyd N. Binder 128 -- Pacific -- Role of the Fiji (National) Museum in collecting oral traditions / Sagale Buodromo 140 -- Oral Traditions Programme of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre / Martha Kaltal 144 -- Beyond print: using the Internet for preservation and stimulation of local culture / Steve Cisler 150.

ISBN

• 3598218257
• 9783598218255

LCCN

2001433360

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library