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526b/Halpern 15<br />
16Milenko Filipovic', the outstanding Serbian ethnographer, relates a field<br />
case in Which the tempo of recitation of a folktale was marked by measured<br />
foot-tapping on the ground (Dajuci takt udaranjem noge 0 zemlju) (see Milenko<br />
Filipovic, "Odnos narodne pripovetke i epske pesme," Prilozi proucavenju narodne<br />
poezije 5 (1938):254-55).<br />
17For generously sharing his long and fascinating genealogy, currently<br />
undergoing kin and prosodic analysis by the writer, I am indebted to Vojin N.<br />
Smodlaka, M.D., of New York.<br />
18 These fragments are excerpted from an equally detailed genealogical<br />
recollection taped on the occasion of a 1969 visit to an eighty-one-year-old uncle in<br />
the Old Country. The tape is labeled "Razgovor sa Cika Zikom" ("Conversation with<br />
Uncle Zika"), for which I am grateful to Professor George Lukic of the University of<br />
Pittsburgh.<br />
19Trd-s spontaneous genealogical poem is on tape 1118-75, recorded on 7/20/75.<br />
Hanerists designate this type of structure "ring composition"; see James P. Holoka,<br />
"Homeric Originality: A Survey," Classical "orld 66 (1973): 257-93. For<br />
anthropologists it is important as an example of process as entropy, namely how a<br />
lineage comes to an end.