Table des matières

Notes on Contributors

Daniela Merolla

Introduction

Jan Bender Shetler

1. The Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library: The Implications of the Digital Return of Oral Tradition

• Introduction
• The Digital Return of Research in Oral Tradition
• The Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library (MCHDL)
• Ethical and Political Dilemmas of Digital Return
• Conclusion

Russell H. Kaschula

2. Technauriture as a Platform to Create an Inclusive Environment for the Sharing of Research

• Introduction — Objectives and Setting the Scene
• The Importance of Orality
• Technauriture and the Orality/Literacy Debate
• Case Studies in Orality
• Recorded Folk Tale: Capture and Dissemination
• Recorded Oral History as Social Commentary
• Recorded Orally-Based Court Case
• The Broster Beadwork Collection
• Digitization and Dissemination: Further Comment
• Conclusion

Kofi Dorvlo

3. From Restitution to Redistribution of Ewe Heritage: Challenges and Prospects

• Introduction
• Heritage Material of the Anlo Ewe
• Drumming and Dancing
• Sanitation of the Community
• Removal of Negative Thought Waves from the Community
• Libation Prayer
• Ensuring the Dead Settle in the Ancestral World
• Reconciliation of the People in the Anlo State
• Preservation of Heritage Material

Brahima Camara, Graeme Counsel et Jan Jansen

4. YouTube in Academic Teaching: A Multimedia Documentation of Siramori Diabaté’s Song “Nanyuman”

• Introduction
• Some Unexpected Finds at a Guinean Archive
• From Archive to YouTube-Supported Teaching Tool
• Some Methodological and Ethical Reflections
• Siramori Diabaté and “Nanyuman”
• Conclusion
• “Nanyuman” by Siramori Diabaté

Valentin Vydrin

5. New Electronic Resources for Texts in Manding Languages

• Introduction
• The Bambara Library
• The Cross-Fertilisation of the Bibliothèque Électronique Bambara and the Corpus Bambara de Référence
• The Maninka Library for Guinea
• Conclusion

Brigitte Rasoloniaina et Andriamanivohasina Rakotomalala

6. Questioning “Restitution”: Oral Literature in Madagascar

• Introduction
• Collecting Data in the Nineteenth Century and the Colonial Period
• Scholars of the Colonial Period (1885 – 1960)
• Malagasy Oral Literature in Contemporary Research
• School, a Privileged Place for Restitution
• Restitution through Anthropological Movies
• Conclusion

Mark Turin

Afterword: Sharing Located