This paper serves as an introduction to this special edition of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on the theme of archaeology, memory and oral history. Recent approaches to oral history and memory destabilise existing grand narratives and confront some of the epistemological assumptions underpinning scientific archaeology. Here we discuss these approaches to memory and explore...

The folklore of Nyai Sabirah is one the diversity Indonesian heritage as an hereditary oral tradition. As a female emancipation figure from descendants Majapahit kingdom who fled siege invasion, played role founder mother Bakaran village by deforesting forests and building rural communities. Sabirah’s character sacred people penetrate space between syncretism social reality. This article examin...

Panji Jayalengkara Angreni which is one part of the variety has a close relationship with oral and written traditions. With existence multi-layered traditions very broad corpus, it necessary to describe distribution traditions, especially in realm Javanese culture Surakarta. Thus, this study aims reveal between Angreni. In revealing relationship, understand that manuscript are unity as basic fo...

Cultures without a written tradition depend entirely on the oral channel to transmit sometimes highly complex information. It is therefore not surprising that in the languages of such cultures linguistic devices evolve that enhance textual coherence, and thus comprehension. These devices should ideally also be economical in terms of morphosyntactic complexity in order to facilitate both product...

The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an Its Place in Early Islam paper considers form, status, importance Qur’anic message first two centuries Islam. argument is that term “Qur’an” could not have originally referred to final body revelation a text form. Rather, concept must functioned among faithful as for oral transmission before scripturalization revelation, it this function primal its ...