Vernacular Culture: The Folklore Blog

This blog chronicles recent developments in folklore studies, in my very subjective style. I hope to review books, websites and blogs. It might also include much griping about folklore and fakelorists. In a word, it's folklotastic!

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March 13, 2005

Show Me Your Ong

Two websites - Remembering Walter Ong and The Walter J. Ong Project - are devoted to the life and work of the recently deceased (2003) Renaissance scholar, Jesuit priest and lifelong devotee of the study of culture.

Ong's work has some resonance for the folklorist, his Orality and Literacy should be read by all (alongside with Havelock's "The Muse Learns to Write.")

Check out these websites, RWO works as a message board for those scholars who are devotees of Ong's work, and the WJOP is a digital archive of his work. Both are interesting and offer many avenues of diversion.

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