The stories collected from the informants are oral narratives.

Hymes' later work focuses on poetics, particularly the poetic organization of Native American oral narratives.

Perhaps the most important contribution the oral narratives make to our understanding of slavery is the registering of the thoughts and feelings of women.

The Storytelling group considers how a collective oral narrative might work as vehicle for dealing with the past.

In oral narrative the name of Beibulat is associated with courage or reckless boldness.

The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art, and dance.

A tribe's history is constantly told and retold through music, which keeps alive an oral narrative of history.

While there is a paucity of manuscript source material concerning this area, various oral narratives help in understanding this development.

In formulating this tale, the author borrowed heavily from existing oral narratives as well as diaries and other historical records.

These claims have been contested, noting the public circulation and availability of the oral narratives from anthropological texts published in the early twentieth century.