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_____________________________________________________________ Volume 30 October 2016 Number 2 _____________________________________________________________ Founding Editor John Miles Foley () Editor Managing Editor John Zemke Katy Chenoweth Editorial Assistants Lauren Anderson Emily Horn Elise Broaddus Christopher Dobbs IT Manager Mark Jarvis Please direct inquiries to: Center for Studies in Oral Tradition University of Missouri 21 Parker Hall Columbia, MO 65211 USA +573.882.9720 (ph) +573.884.0291 (fax) EDITORIAL BOARD Mark C. Amodio Robert P. Creed Vassar College Univ. of Mass./Amherst Old and Middle English Old English, Comparative Patricia Arant Robert Culley () Brown University McGill University Russian Biblical Studies Samuel Armistead () Thomas DuBois University of California/Davis University of Wisconsin Hispanic, Comparative Scandinavian Richard Bauman Casey Dué Indiana University University of Houston Folklore, Theory Ancient Greek Margaret H. Beissinger Joseph J. Duggan Princeton University Univ. of Cal./Berkeley South Slavic and Romanian French, Spanish, Comparative Dan Ben-Amos Alan Dundes () University of Pennsylvania Univ. of Cal./Berkeley Folklore Folklore Mark Bender Mark W. Edwards Ohio State University Stanford University Chinese Ancient Greek Mary Ellen Brown David Elmer Indiana University Harvard University Folklore, Balladry South Slavic, Ancient Greek Jonathan Burgess Larry Evers University of Toronto University of Arizona Ancient Greek American Indian Literature Chogjin Ruth Finnegan Chinese Academy Open University of Social Sciences African, South Pacific Mongolian, Chinese Joxerra Garzía Bridget Connelly University of the Basque Country University of Cal./Berkeley Basque Arabic Andrew Gerstle Werner Kelber University of London Rice University Japanese Theater, Biblical Studies Performance Literature Françoise Létoublon Terry Gunnell Université Stendahl University of Iceland Ancient Greek Old Norse, Drama Victor Mair Thomas Hale University of Pennsylvania Penn. State University Chinese African Peter Middleton Lee Haring University of Southampton Broklyn Colege, CUNY Contemporary Poetry African Performance Joseph Harris Nada Milošević-Djordjević Harvard University University of Belgrade Old Norse South Slavic Lauri Harvilahti Stephen Mitchell Finnish Literature Society Harvard University Russian, Finnish, Altai Scandinavian Holly Hearon Gregory Nagy Christian Theological Seminary Harvard University New Testament Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Comparative Lauri Honko () Turku University Joseph Falaky Nagy Comparative Epic Univ. of Cal./Los Angeles Old Irish Dell Hymes () University of Virginia Susan Niditch Native American, Linguistics Amherst College Hebrew Bible Bonnie Irwin Eastern Illinois University Walter J. Ong () Comparative Medieval Arabic St. Louis University Hermeneutics of orality and Martin Jaffee literacy Hebrew Bible Univ. of Washington Tom Pettitt University of Southern Denmark Minna Skafte Jensen Folklore, early Literature Odense University Ancient Greek, Latin Shelly Fenno Quinn Timothy Tangherlini Ohio State University University of California-Los Japanese Angeles Scandinavian Studies Burton Raffel Univ. of Southwestern Dennis Tedlock Louisiana SUNY/Buffalo Translation Native American Karl Reichl J. Barre Toelken Universität Bonn Utah State University Turkic, Old and Middle English Folklore, Native American John Roberts Ronald J. Turner Ohio State University Univ. of Missouri/Columbia African-American Storytelling Joel Sherzer Andrew Wiget University of Texas/Austin University of New Mexico Native American, Anthropology Native American Joseph Sobol Paulu Zedda East Tennessee State University Università di Cagliari Storytelling Sardinian This page is intentionally left blank. Authoritative Speech in the Himalayas Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Anne de Sales, Special Editors This page is intentionally left blank. Contents Editor’s Column ..........................................................................................175 Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Anne de Sales Words of Truth: Authority and Agency in Ritual and Legal Speeches in the Himalayas ..........................................177 John Leavitt Transmissions and Transitions in Indian Oral Traditions ..........................195 Marie Lecomte-Tilouine The Untouchable Bard as Author of his Royal Patron: A Social Approach to Oral Epic Poetry in Western Nepal ..........................211 Anne de Sales The Sources of Authority for Shamanic Speech: Examples from the Kham-Magar of Nepal .................................................243 Martin Gaenszle Meaning, Intention, and Responsibility in Rai Divinatory Discourse ........263 Franck Bernède The House of Letters: Musical Apprenticeship among the Newar Farmers (Kathmandu Valley, Nepal) .............................281 Christian Jahoda Imparting and (Re-)Confirming Order to the World: Authoritative Speech Traditions and Socio-political Assemblies in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur, and Purang in the Past and Present ..................................................................319 Daniela Berti The Authority of Law and the Production of Truth in India ........................345 Barbara Berardi Tadié Engendering Minorities in Nepal: The Authority of Legal Discourse and the Production of Truth ..................361 Pustak Ghimire Authority, Status, and Caste Markers in Everyday Village Conversations: the Example of Eastern Nepal .....................................................................387 About the Authors ........................................................................................409
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