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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Oral tradition"”.
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'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition
The studies of oral history and oral tradition each have their own distinctive bodies of literature and preferred methodologies, yet share significant overlaps that make them difficult to differentiate. For many indigenous peoples, oral histories and traditions are key to their their past, present, …
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The Digital Folklore Project: Tracking the Oral Tradition on the World Wide Web.
<p>I collected forty-two e-mail forwards over the course of four months, and from those I formulated a framework that adapts existing theory in collection and study of real-world folklore to the emerging folk communities that exist on the internet. Through this analysis I prove that the same genres …
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Seeking the chameleon: the influence of native rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature
… seeks to explore the impact of rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature by demonstrating that unique features are evident as a direct result of this influence. Characteristics which have functioned to preserve their culture (e.g.; the morphogenetic nature of Native mythology, …
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
This research project explores the relationship between the use of culturally sensitive reading material and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
This research project explores the relationship between the use of culturally sensitive reading material and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Until lions learn to speak... placing the African oral tradition at the centre of power, knowledge, and media
… of knowledge production, specifically the oral tradition, have largely been undervalued and ignored. As such, what is a vibrant, complex and active tradition of African orality in the pursuit and preservation of knowledge has been relegated to the back rooms of academia and scholars are not …
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Language maintenance and shift in communities of oral tradition: The case of the Sillanko of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
The problem. This study investigates the ongoing sociolinguistic situation of the Sillanko, a linguistic minority of Burkina Faso (West Africa). The objective is to assess the chances for the Sillanko remaining a separate group and the risks for their becoming linguistically assimilated to the …
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Legend and landscape: convergence of oral and scientific traditions with special reference to the Yukon territory, Canada
The paper examines two distinct intellectual traditions in the north, Native oral tradition and western scientif~c research. It begins by discussing my own anthropological field research in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, the present interest of natural scientists in oral tradition, and the …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… of medieval English culture such as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English poetry but supply symbolic forms that shape it as well. Approaching poetics through the medium allows original insights into several paradigmatic works …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… of the ways by which filmmakers are mediating oral tradition forms as secondary orality in West African Films. The study aims to show that filmmakers mediate orality as an aesthetic source. The goal is to examine the value of the oral narrative on the screen. To study the oral qualities of the …
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My Brother, My Slave: The Social and Cultural Role of Slavery among the Navajo
… particularly through the use of American Indian oral tradition and stories. This has been accomplished through the use of a comparative slavery analysis with another global indigenous culture. Further, through the use of Navajo oral tradition, language and cultural philosophical concepts; this …
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A survey of Xhosa drama
… expressions. The writer hopes to show that traditional Xhosa drama shares certain elements of this art with other cultures. In ether words, there appears to be certain universals that identify all dramatic art. Although the study mainly concerns itself with the analysis of indigenous forms …
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Traduction française de récits autochtones du Canada comportant des mots empruntés aux langues indigènes
Canada's Native literature is rooted in an oral tradition, like many other aboriginal literatures. This literature's main characteristics are often distinct from those of the Western literary tradition. Throughout years and history, scholars and theorists from English Canada and Quebec have more or …
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface
… as an exemplary invention of the ancient Greek oral tradition. Odysseus's nostos, his returning journey to his homeland, Ithaca, still echoes today, as an inexhaustible source of imagination and creativity. This project postulates that in the instance of the Odyssey, Homer blends imagination …
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Resistance, pacification and consciousness : a discussion of the historiography of Khoisan resistance from 1972 to 1993 and Khoisan resistance from 1652 to 1853
… The thesis also describes concepts of Khoisan oral tradition, which are used as a basis for the conceptual critique of the historiography. In the light of the critique, an attempt is made to develop new hypotheses and g eneralizations about Khoisan resistance. Finally, the conclusion draws out …
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