====== Alcheringa ======
//Alcheringa/Ethnopoetics // was published in 13 issues between 1970 and 1980. It remains the most ambitious and influential publication of world poetries in translation, emphasizing global continuities and the rich connections and differences among traditional, experimental, oral and print poetry.
====Currently Annotated Issues====
//Alcheringa/Ethnopoetics //emphasized doing justice to oral performance through transcription and visual design, presenting a productive challenge to this day. A digital reissue was made available via [[https://jacket2.org/reissues/alcheringa|Jacket2 and Pennsound]]; audio MP3s of original 45rpm records have also been republished via [[https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Alcheringa.php|Pennsound]]; [[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/id8xbxyht81osdj/AAByR0dMfrAu_ovkL0MNVruwa?dl=0|Dropbox]]
This wiki aims to provide informative context and updated links to ongoing scholarship; contents of the first two issues have been largely annotated; browse the index of wiki entries below, or see the full [[alcheringa:alcheringa-full_contents|contents only of Alcheringa]]
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Vol. 1, No. 1, 1970
[[https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/alcheringa/Alcheringa_1-1_Fall-1970.pdf|External PDF]]
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[[alcheringa:1-2:contents|Entries]]
Vol. 1, No. 2, 1971
[[http://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/alcheringa/Alcheringa_1-2_Summer-1971.pdf|External PDF]]
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**Ethnopoetics Today**
===== Ethnopoetics Today =====
Fifty years after the advent of Ethnopoetics, its [[http://wiki.ethnopoetics.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=alcheringa:1-1:statement_of_intention-pages_from_alcheringa_1-1_fall-1970.pdf|goals]] remain crucial and relevant: "exploring the full range" of human poetry; encouraging "cooperative projects" among artists and scholars, across cultures and disciplines; combatting "cultural genocide" and "encouraging a knowledgeable, loving respect" for cultures "past and present."
On the launch of the Alcheringa reissue in 2010, Dennis Tedlock wrote:
"// An interest in cultural others has returned to humanities departments under the rubric of Cultural Studies, but the favored others are close at hand, already living inside the metropolis. . . . . Ancient texts, many of them in nonalphabetic scripts and some of them newly discovered, stand in need of translations that do more than recast them in familiar alphabetic forms. Ethnographic reports are filled with texts that have yet to be treated as poetry and retranslated as such, and many recordings made in the field have yet to receive the close listening required for transcriptions and translations that pay attention to sound. Nearby and far away, contemporary poets continue to speak, sing, and write in hundreds of languages that are neither colonial nor sanctioned by national governments.//"
See: Dreamtime: An Introduction to the Alcheringa Archive. Dennis Tedlock, 2010. [[https://jacket2.org/reissues/dreamtime]]
====== Exploring the Ethnopoetics Wiki ======
== Tags ==
This site uses content [[tags]] for cross-referencing.
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== Metadata ==
Indices, keywords, and metadata search of the wiki content.
* [[alcheringa_-_full_contents|Alcheringa/Ethnopoetics Full Contents]]
* [[ethnopoetics_resources|Resources]]
* [[Frequent Words]]
* [[Tag Cloud]]
* [[Tag Search]]
* [[Concepts and Keywords]]
== Visualizations ==
In addition to exploring the reference entries above, you may explore the full text contents of Alcheringa issues. Below is a visualization and access to text analysis widgets produced with Voyant Tools. For further exploration, see [[Further Voyant Tool Views]] in this wiki or open the Voyant Workspace in a separate window with corpus of all digitized issues of Alcheringa/Ethnpoetics via this [[https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=0170f80bad64261e93168941e5d50230|link]]
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== Exemplary Transcriptions ==
Ethnopoetic transcription aims to design the textual presentation of an oral performance, using visual elements to mark dimensions significant to speakers and hearers. Ideally, it might provide a score for re-performance. At a minimum, it should make concrete aspects of the audio-text perceived as significant by the transcriber. This was a hallmark of //Alcheringa// issues, which were limited in their ability to provide audio recordings. Even with the availability of audio analysis software and the ease of transmitting digitized audio, transcription retains value for transcribers, scholars, and readers.
List of: [[alcheringa:exemplary transcriptions|Exemplary Transcriptions]]
====== Collaboration ======
This site was created to share informative, scholarly materials related to Ethnopoetics. The source archive is hosted by Pennsound; excerpted materials included in this project are used with the permission and acknowledgment of [[https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/about.php|Pennsound]] and [[https://jacket2.org/|Jacket2]]. Original materials are produced and offered under fair-use, with Creative Commons access rights wherever possible. Novice contributors are encouraged to visit the [[http://kennethsherwood.com/engl766866-Ethnopoetics/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax|Formatting Syntax]] page and then experiment with page and link creation in the [[playground:playground|]]. If you are a participating contributor and cannot log in, please email editor@ethnopoetics.org for assistance.
== History ==
This project was initiated at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as a project of the graduate English course in comparative literature: Orality, Ethnopoetics, and Digital Humanities ENGL 766/866 in Summer of 2021. Students in ENGL 757-857 - Digital Composition, Literature, and Pedagogy contributed in the Fall of 2021. We hope to be able to work with a broader range of contributors in the future. Please contact the site editor (editor@ethnopoetics.org) if interested.
Credits: Ethnopoetics Wiki [[Contributors]]. Current contributors, please visit the [[projectspace:workflow]] area.
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