Exploring West African Folk Narrative Texts Using Machine Learning
Information (Switzerland), 2020 This paper examines how machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) can be used to identify, analyze, and generate West African folk tales.
VÍCTOR De Boer, Gossa Lo
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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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Argentinean Indigenous Culture in Animal Folktales / Hayvan Halk Masallarında Arjantin Yerli Kültürü [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2022 The history of Argentina as an independent nation began in 1816, although its foundation by the Hispanic conquerors took place in the XVIth century. This multicultural Latin American nation, located in the very south of the world, combines ancient ...
Maria Ines Palleiro
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Symbolic Actions of Cultural Characters in Davao Folk Narratives
Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2022 This study mirrors the symbolic actions of cultural characters in Davao folk narratives. It utilized descriptive-narrative and narrative-conversational methods to collect and analyze the folk narratives in the Davao region.
Angelo Lenard E. Yu +1 more
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The Function of Common Mythological Motifs in a Kurdish Folk Narrative and an Excerpt from Klidar
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2021 Myths express human aspirations and fears. Literary and folk texts in the depth of their thinking do not shy away from mythical themes. Myths, through their narrative function, reveal the themes of human archetype in the various contexts narratives.
Hadi Dehghani Yazdeli
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Five Great Families and Telepathy: Folk Religion and Buddhism in Neo-Dongbei Fiction by Zheng Zhi
Al-Adyan, 2022 The 2010s has witnessed the visibility of literature based on China’s Northeast (Dongbei), exemplified by literary works composed by Zheng Zhi, Ban Yu and Shuang Xuetao, viz. the ‘three masters of Dongbei Renaissance’.
Aiqing Wang
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2018 This paper focuses on the predominating east-west orientation of Iron Age graves (5th century BC to the 13th century AD) and the reasons that could have caused the custom.
Daiva Vaitkevičienė +1 more
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Folk Dancing Documentation as a Creative Tool for Video Art
Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2020 This paper explores how both sound and image of a documentary under production footage can serve as a narrative tool for a sound-oriented video art piece (‘Folkofolk’), and at the same time communicate the ideas of the final documentary itself.
Yiannis Christidis, Nicos Synnos
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Traditional beliefs in animals in the novel 'The Siege of the St. Salvation Church' by Goran Petrović: Function and meaning [PDF]
Univerzitetska Misao, 2021 This paper examines function and meaning of traditional folk beliefs related to animals in the novel "The Siege of the Church of St. Salvation". Research is attempting to show that the folk beliefs about animals are included in creating novel structure ...
Vasić-Rakočević Branislava +1 more
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