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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
02 Oct 2002
The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON)
SWC/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Supplied note: "2,200 stories, in 73 volumes, full-text - hbp." [Annotated English translations of these tales
are contained in large typescript volumes. Also, the majority
of ATON holdings were recorded on magnetic tape and are on record with the National Referral Services of the U.S. Library
of Congress - ed.].
Self-description:
"The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) [...] was founded in 1971
by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker.
The Founders donated their holdings to Texas Tech University in 1980.
The late Ahmet E. Uysal was Professor of Literature at Ankara University;
Warren Walker is Horn Professor Emeritus of English at the University and founding editor of Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication.
His wife, Barbara Walker, has edited several tales published throughout the years.
The Walkers are currently serving as unpaid volunteers."
Site contents: Search the archive of narratives;
About the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON);
Ahmet Edip Uysal (1922-1997);
Divisions and subdivisions of the 3000 tales in ATON (I.The Supernatural,
II. Perplexities and Ingenious Deductions,
III. Humor,
IV. Moralizing,
V. Romance - Heroic and/or Amatory,
VI. Anticlerical Satire,
VII. Anecdotal Wit and Wisdom: Stereotyped Characters - Ethnic/Professional/Regional,
Individual Characters,
Proverb-Based/Proverb-Making Narrative,
Folk Etiology,
VIII. Miscellaneous);
A Pocketful of Turkish Proverbs;
ATON Subject Index;
Turkish Games for Health and Recreation;
Tales Behind Tales;
Alpamis destani Part I [PDF, 365Kb];
Alpamis destani Part II [PDF, 302Kb];
Alpamysh-A Kazak rendition Part I [MP3, 23:58];
Alpamysh-A Kazak rendition Part II [MP3, 26:06].
URL http://swco.ttu.edu/aton_html/index.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: H B Paksoy (hb.paksoy@ttu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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