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Bachekhani in Folk literature [PDF]

مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023
The term "Bachekhani" has two uses in folklore, firstly in Maktabkhaneh literature and secondly in Ta'zieh or Shabiye Khani. Bachekhani, in Maktabkhane terms, is related to the collection of lithographic and illustrated books that were written for ...
Moslem Nadalizadeh, hasan zolfagari
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Discourse of Folk Literature on Healthy Ageing: A Case Study in Sindh, Pakistan during the Pandemic Crisis

Social Sciences, 2021
Due to COVID-19 and the repeated imposition of lockdowns in Pakistan’s Sindh province, the life of senior citizens has become challenging. Given the scarcity of health care policies targeted at Sindh’s aged persons, the use of folk literature as therapy ...
Maya Khemlani David, Ameer Ali
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Identification and Literary Analysis of the Selected Folk Literature in the Province of Capiz, Philippines

JPAIR, 2016
The Philippines, a treasury of oral folk epics and particularly folk songs, gives us opportunities to research them in transition, which implies documenting and introducing them to a wider audience (Biclar, 2014).
Emmanuel D. Dayalo
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Text and Context of the Blaan’s Folk Literature

JPAIR, 2020
Blaans are one of the tribes that reside in the Mindanao archipelago in the Philippines. This study collected, transcribed, classified, and analyzed Blaan folk literature in the barangays of Sinapulan and Eday in the municipality of Columbio, Sultan ...
Neva Benito
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Jewish Folk Literature [PDF]

Oral Tradition, 1998
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folk literature: (a) historical depth, (b) continuous interdependence between orality and literacy, (c) national dispersion, and (d) linguistic diversity. In spite of these diverging factors, the folklore of most Jewish communities clearly shares a number of features.
Dan Ben-Amos
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Exploring Arab Folk Literature

, 2011
Foreword The Transcription Of Arabic Part I: Fact Finding 1. Arabic Literatures, "Elite" and "Folk" - Junctions and Disjunctions 2. The Egyptian Mawwal: its Ancestry, its Development, and its Present Forms 3.
P. Cachia
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Looduslikud pühapaigad kui jutupaigad Rambynase mäe näitel [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2022
This article presents different cases of Rambynas Hill in south-western Lithuania. The first one discusses Rambynas Hill as a pagan sacred site. Sporadic mentions in written historical sources do not paint a clear picture of the place and of how it was ...
Andrius Kaniava
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Kohalikud tavad ja pühaduse poliitika Trakai järvestiku piirkonnas [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2022
The lakeland of Trakai is a historically, culturally, and ecologically meaningful place in Lithuania, an important realm of memory and symbol of national identity.
Lina Leparskienė
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“Beyt” in Kurdish Folk Literature

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015
“Beyt” has a special place among different topics of Kurdish folk literature and researchers have always concentrated on this field. It is a narrative poem with epic and lyrical content in which narration has a more prominent role than in similar texts ...
Hosein Mikailee
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The Importance of Arabic Sources in Compiling the History of Iranian Folk Literature after Islam (with an emphasis on proverbs, sayings, and anecdotes in the works of Ibn al-Muqaffa’) [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2023
According to the experts in the field of history of literature, enough attention has not been paid to the history of Iranian folk literature so far. Among the reasons for this problem could be the obstacles in compiling the history of folk literature ...
Mahsa Jalali, Omid Zakerikish
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