University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Research Report 17: Selected papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Anthropology Department Research Reports series Demography and Oral Tradition 6-1977 Chapter 6, Selected Papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral Tradition Joel Halpern University of Massachusetts - Amherst Barbara Halpern University of Massachusetts - Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/anthro_res_rpt17 Part of the Anthropology Commons Halpern, Joel and Halpern, Barbara, "Chapter 6, Selected Papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral Tradition" (1977). Research Report 17: Selected papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral Tradition. 8. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/anthro_res_rpt17/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology Department Research Reports series at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Report 17: Selected papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral Tradition by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 6 RESEARCH ON ORAL TRADITIONAL EXPRESSION IN ~UMA D!JA • AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE STUDY OF OTHER ORAL TRADITIONS by John Miles Foley Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature , Harvard The nUl'pose of this paper is t o repo rt the results of a Joint interdisciplinary endeavor , !'Aspects o f SerbiaJl Oral ExpressionJ~ an NEH-sponsored investigation, the field phase of which was carried on in Orafac during 1975 , 1 The f ocus of the project was the oral culture of a Serbian village, as it exists not only in f ormally recog ni~ed prose and poetic genres like the folktale or ~picJ but ~lBo in more informal genres such as the genealogy and healing charm.