Our Collections

World Oral Literature Project Online Collections

We host materials collected by our grantees along with heritage recordings deposited with the Project. Collection updates are posted on this page. Online collections include:

Aileen Margaret Robertson's Senoi / Temiar Collection from Malaysia, 1941-1942

Alan Macfarlane: Interviews with Anthropologists, 1976-2010

Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo, 2007

Arnold von Bohlen und Halbach: Tibetan Death Rites, 1979

Bkra shis bzang po: Oral Traditions from Mi nyag-Speaking Tibetan Villages, 2009

'Brug mo rgyal: Dkyil 'khor Tibetan Collection, 2011

Centre for Bhutan Studies: National Story Telling Conference, 2009

Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series, 2002-2008

Dorji (Rdo rje don 'grub): Tewo County Collection, 2011

Elizabeth Wickett: The Epic of Pabuji Collection, 2009

G.yu lha: Oral Traditions of Siyuewu Village, 2009-2010

G.yung 'brug: Danba Tibetan Culture Collection, 2008-2010

Ha Mingzong: Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History, 2005 and 2009

Hu Qianma: Wangjiagou Pumi Collection, 2008-2011

John Whitehorn's Paiwan materials from Taiwan, 1950s

Kha Bum: Xunhua Tibetan Folk Culture Video Collection, 2008-2010

Neil Lanham: The Arthur 'Cocky' King Collection, East Suffolk, 2007-2009

Neil Lanham: The Life and Times of Dick Ruggles, 2004-2005

Rdo rje don 'grub: Rka phug Tibetan Village Cultural Materials, 2010

Rdo rje rgyal: Dkar yol nang Village Collection, 2008

Sgrol dkar skyid: Sitaigou Village Tibetan Collection, 2008

Snying dkar skyid: Stag rig Oral Literature, 2009

Stephen Pax Leonard: The Oral Traditions and Communicative Practices of the Inugguit, 2010-2011

Susan Wright: Iran Collection, 1974-1976

Tristram Riley-Smith's Newar field recordings from Nepal, 1979-1980

Yangdon Dhondup: Tantric practitioners from Reb kong, Amdo, Tibet, 2010

Zla ba sgrol ma: Oral Literature of the Sman shad Valley, 2009