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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.

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