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The Oral Folk Literature of the Ancient Meiteis of Manipur: An Analysis of its Cultural Significance
Space and Culture, India, 2018 Oral narratives are the earliest forms of storytelling as they exist in every culture as a part of religious rituals, folk music and songs. They include ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, musical genres, folk tales, creation stories, songs, myths,
Thounaojam Caesar, Reena Sanasam
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International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023 The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China’s Luocheng, northern Guangxi, and southeast Guizhou are the main distribution hubs for Mulao folk songs, which are a significant aspect of China’s Mulao line customs heritage.
Ying Wu, Pitsanu Boonsrianun
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On the folk literature of Goranies [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2002 nema
Bovan Vladimir
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International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023 Rongshui Han folk songs, symbolic of Liuzhou’s ethnic culture, hold significant cultural value in transmitting history and traditions. However, contemporary scholars have limited attention, requiring further exploration and research.
Wang Shun, Pitsanu Boonsrianun
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Bronislava Kerbelytė: Innovator of Folktale Research
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis article presents the scholarly legacy of Bronislava Kerbelytė (1935–2024), a pioneering Lithuanian folklorist whose lifelong work significantly advanced the study of narrative folklore. Kerbelytė developed a unique methodology of structural-semantic
Jūratė Šlekonytė
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Cherokee Stories of the Supernatural
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996 Stories of personal experiences of supernatural events are a highly-valued form of verbal art for Cherokee speakers today. Both the people who tell them and those who listen regard such stories as entertaining and instructional.
Scancarelli, Janine
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Construction and Application of WeChat Learning Platform in "Folk Literature" Teaching
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2016 WeChat as a type of mobile software with social communication attribute and platform function can offer a new platform and application mode for distance education.
Wei Shang
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Belief Narratives in Lithuanian Mushroom Picking Practices
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis article focuses on certain belief narratives related to mushrooms and mushroom picking practices in Lithuania. It compares material from two time periods: the first from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, which is ...
Vita Džekčioriūtė
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An Ethnopoetic analysis of a Traditional Kashaya Gambling Narrative
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995 In this paper I examine the text of a traditional Kashaya narrative which depicts a gambling game between coast and forest creatures. I propose an analysis of the meaning and organization of the text in terms of its cultural context as well as its poetic
Swift, Mary
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A Folk Tale of a Butterfly [PDF]
, 2009 This folk tale describes how a butterfly and worm respect one anotherThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village
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