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A Comparative Exploration of Desirable Femininity in Folk Literature of Iran and Europe: A Case Study on the Transformation of Matrimony in Two Legends of Shāhmār and Beauty and the Beast [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2022 Urban legends and fairytales use symbols and archetypes to bring forth, and describe, individual and collective actions and reactions in a society. Using an approach of both descriptive and comparative nature, the present article uses narrative analysis ...
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2022 The article considers changes in drinking rituals and how they are reflected in folklore. Belarusian and Lithuanian songs sharing several similarities are selected for a more detailed discussion.
Vita Ivanauskaitė-Šeibutienė
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Use of Mythical Creatures in Folk Literature of Southeast Asia: A Comparative analysis
IJRAEL: International Journal of Religion Education and Law, 2023 This paper presents a comparative analysis of the use of mythical creatures in Southeast Asian folk literature, focusing on the dragons in Javanese folktales from Indonesia, the naga in Thai folklore, and the aswang in Filipino mythology.
Edgar R. Eslit
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REVIEW ON - FOLK LITERATURE TO REDEVELOP VOCATIONAL EDUCATION THROUGH SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
VIDYA - A JOURNAL OF GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, 2023 The word, ‘folk’ has wide range of understanding and connotations-ranging from ‘natural’ to traditional’ to ‘rural’ and in some cases ‘from the heart’ in India. Very ancients of this land, India, were past masters of all art forms that are folk.
Dharti H. Gajjar
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Folk Literature and Social Space: Interdependences and Correlations
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2022 Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” this dictum attributed to famous playwright Bertolt Brecht as quoted by Bleeker et al., (2019) sums up the interdependence and correlation between art and literature and ...
Ms. Rajni Jaimini, Dr. Priya Raghav
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On the Copyright Protection of Folk Literature and Art Works
The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2022 : Every nation has a specific cultural aesthetic and value inheritance. The Chinese nation has thousands of years of civilization history and precipitated a very deep cultural and artistic heritage.
Liu Yi
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 An attempt has been made to understand the reproductive behaviour of the Gond (146), Birhor (151) and Kawar (78) tribes of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The study focuses on the role of socioeconomic and cultural factors responsible for the variation and ...
Bharathi Karri, Gladis S Mathew
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Comparative-content study of the Buddha Myth with a Folk Narrative from the City of Fasa [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 Introduction Anthropologists have long found traces of myth in folk tales and the roots of some of these stories and legends are known as myths. Myths are the beliefs of ancient humans on which human culture is based. Thus, general public literature is
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Practitioners and Uses of Contemporary Mende Folk literature in South-Eastern Sierra Leone
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021 The study examined the practitioners and uses of contemporary Mende folk literature in South-eastern Sierra Leone. A qualitative research design involving 250 participants from 50 communities with 5 participants from each community was used in the study.
Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah +2 more
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Историческая этнология, 2021 Reminiscences and a bait of the war years recorded in 1948 during a folklore ex-pedition which was organized by scholars of the Institute of Language, Literature and History Hamid Yarmi and Khalida Gatina, are offered to readers’ attention.
Ilsiyar G. Zakirova
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