Abstract
Moving oral traditions into the domain of the printed word involves a first step of transcription.1 Anyone who has transcribed recordings from fieldwork will recollect the grinding effort demanded by this task. One listens again and again: striving to catch the meaning and tone of words as they gallop past, struggling to coax a herd of words into orderly lines, straining to remain attentive to other sounds--comments, interjections, interruptions, parallel performances--that are simultaneously shaping a text.
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