Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Map of Selected Place Names viii
5. Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche 1
6. Part One. Questing Truths
7. 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling 21
8. 2. Orality about Literacy: The ‘Black and White’ of Salish History 43
9. Part Two. Writing It Down
10. 3. The Philosopher’s Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato’s Sophist and Hipparchus 73
11. 4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: Print Textualization from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions 110
12. Part Three. Going Public
13. 5. ‘Private stories’ in Aboriginal Literature 153
14. 6. From Family Lore to a People’s History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies 177
15. Part Four. Subverting Authority
16. 7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy in the Laozi 199
17. 8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic 217
18. Part Five. Uncovering Voices
19. 9. A Tagalog Awit of the ‘Holy War’ against the united states, 1899–1902 247
20. 10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies 280
21. Contributors 315
22. Index 319