Seventh Word: Reading Some Oral Poems 146

　　　　Case studies and the grid

　　　　　　Zuni and Kaqchikel Mayan oral poetry

　　　　　　Slam poetry

　　　　　　　　At the Nuyorican

　　　　　　　　Slam as performance

　　　　　　The Odyssey

　　　　　　The Siri Epic

　　　　　　The Song of Roland

　　　　A repertoire for reading oral poetry

　　Eighth Word: An Ecology of South Slavic Oral Poetry 188

　　　　Healing the body: Magical charms

　　　　Healing the spirit: Funeral laments

　　　　Tracking identity: Genealogies

　　　　Living the heritage: Epics

　　　　　　Christian epic: Marko, Kosovo, The Widow Jana

　　　　　　Moslem epic

　　　　Speaking in poetry: An unclassified species

　　　　A diverse ecology

　　Post-Script 219

　　　　Pre-script, para-script, post-script

　　　　Pathways

　　　　Cyber-editions and e-readers

　　Bibliography 227

　　Index 243

　　"How to Read an Oral Poem sets out to provide guidance in how to perform a very tricky intellectual exercise: the competent 'reading' of texts that exist in oral performance. It engages all the most pertinent scholarship with mastery and understanding."

　　-- Barre Toelken, author of Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksong and The Dynamics of Folklore