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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ethnopoetics"”.
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… and these include: social constructionism, ethnopoetics, literary onomastics and the main approach being formalism. The study was undertaken to establish the similarities and differences between the cattle praise poetry of Bweengwa and that of Chivuna. The non-cross section survey method was …
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… and these include: social constructionism, ethnopoetics, literary onomastics and the main approach being formalism. The study was undertaken to establish the similarities and differences between the cattle praise poetry of Bweengwa and that of Chivuna. The non-cross section survey method was …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
This dissertation is based upon four narratives and one song from interviews with a group of Napo Kichwa women. Kichwa society functions on three intersecting levels: between humans and other humans, between humans and non-human animals, and between humans and non-human spirit beings. Each of these …
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PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’
This dissertation explores the way Kotiria/Wanano (E. Tukanoan, Kotiria hereafter) women of the Brazilian Alto Rio Negro (ARN) contrive (McDowell 1990) kaya basa ‘sad songs’ using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also …