Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 14/2 (1999)

With the present issue Oral Tradition returns to its more common--and in many ways most fundamental--format: a digest of articles on a widevariety of traditions and expressive forms. The rationale for this diversity stems from our editorial commitment to study oral tradition comparatively, to learn more about our "home fields" by juxtaposing verbal arts from all over the world and throughout history.Not