This collection of twelve essays edited by Nicole Revel at Cambridge Scholar Publishing is the most recent achievement of ongoing studies of performances by singers of tales and ritualists in contemporary socio-cultural contexts by means of pioneering initiatives in the Digital Humanities, multiple analytical approaches and expert use of our growing technical capacity to safeguard and explore Intangible Heritage. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Part I: Chanted Narratives Intangible Heritage in Today’s World
Chanted Landscapes -Fernando N. Zialcita
Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Capable Human Being: Ethical Implications of Epic Narratives –Leovino Ma. Garcia
Vivid and Virtual Memory-Nicole Revel
Part II: The Voice, the Music, the Word
Mangalimog Ako: Finding One’s Voice in Sugidanon ‘Epic Chanting’ –Maria-Christine Muyco
Speech and Songs in the Toraja Highlands – Dana Rappoport
Madness and Recovery: Rite, Renewal, and the Ring Form in T’boli Epic Song – Manolete Mora
The Chanted Ifugao Alim and Hudhud: Ritual-Drama and Heroic Stories- Rosario Bona de Santos del Rosario
Part III: Interpreting as an Art
Epic as a Means to Control the Memory and Emotions of Gods and Humans: Ritual Implications of the Hudhud Epics among the Ifugao and the Kalanguya- Maria Stanyukovich
From the Founding Epic to a Millennarian Unknown, Moken’ Answer to Contemporary History-Jacques Ivanoff
The Spoor of the Mythical Sailfish: Narrative Topology and Narrative Artefacts in Southwest Maluku (Indonesia) and Tutuala (East-Timor)-Aone van Engelenhoven
Epics in the Early Spanish Philippines Revisited- Brandon Reilly
Hang Tuah, the Culture Hero: Interpreting Memory-Muhammad Haji Salleh