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Basketry and Festival Among the Dong (Kam) People

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
While fundamental to the practical concerns of everyday life, bamboo baskets also play important roles within festivals staged by the Dong (Kam) people of Southwest China.
Jackson Jason Baird, Zhang Lijun
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The Contexts of Osip Mandelstam’s Works in Tomas Venclova’s Diptych “Two Poems about Love”

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2020
The article analyzes a diptych “Two Poems about Love” written by Tomas Venclova in 1973 and its contexts. The article refers to the archived manuscript and the translation of Mandelstam’s poem “Za to, chto ia ruki tvoi ne sumel uderzhat‘…” (“For I failed
Donata Mitaitė
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Development of Mathematical Thinking through Integration of Ethnomathematic Folklore Game in Math Instruction

, 2017
In light of all the difficulties and challenges facing us today in improving math education, questions arise regarding how to develop students’ mathematical thinking and conception, how to increase student motivation to learn math, how to improve ...
Abu Qouder Fouze, Miriam Amit
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Basketry Craft Practice in Southwest China: The Case of Defeng Village

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
This paper focuses on the practice of basketry craft and its relationship to changing social dynamics in Southwest China that we have observed through collaborative ethnographic projects across the region.
Zhang Lijun, Jackson Jason Baird
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The 1563 Ruthenian Translation of the Czech Lucidář in a Manuscript Copy of the First Half of the 17th Century: Publication

Slavistica Vilnensis, 2021
The younger manuscript copy of the 1563 Ruthenian translation of the Czech Lucidář is published in full (Moscow, State Public Historical Library of Russia, Department of Rare Books, Ms. 11, fol.
Сергей Юрьевич Темчин
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Legends: Folklore on Reddit [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
In this paper we introduce Reddit legends, a collection of venerated old posts that have become famous on Reddit. To establish the utility of Reddit legends for both computational science/HCI and folkloristics, we investigate two main questions: (1) whether they can be considered folklore, i.e.
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Folklore’s Futures: Scholarship and Practice [PDF]

, 2006
This is a summary report from the Pre-AFS Annual Meeting Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18 ...
American Folklore Society
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Diversity and Ecological Factors Influencing Medicinal Plant Use Among Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Philippines 21世纪菲律宾人类文化语言学族群药用植物多样性及其生态关联研究

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
Plant order‐level Sankey plot illustrating plant use of ethnolinguistic groups for key disease types based on organ systems and use. Each node represents the strength of its interaction or usage. ABSTRACT Many human populations rely on natural remedies for health and healing, with traditional medicinal plants playing a vital role in diverse ...
Krizler C. Tanalgo, Yalaira Plang, Kier C. Dela Cruz, Meriam M. Rubio, Bona Abigail Hilario‐Husain, Jeaneth Magelen V. Respicio, Asraf K. Lidasan, Sumaira S. Abdullah, Gerald Vince N. Fabrero, Renee Jane A. Ele, Sedra A. Murray, Yvonne V. Saliling, Radji A. Macatabon, Lothy F. Casim, Jamaica Delos Reyes, Angelo R. Agduma   +15 more
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New Texts in Manuscripts of the 1636 Ruthenian Translation of the Czech Lucidarius (*Olomouc, 1622)

Slavistica Vilnensis, 2021
The article focuses on the textual criticism of the Ruthenian translation of the Czech book entitled Lucidář (Lucidarius), a medieval encyclopedic treatise consisting of the student’s questions and the teacher’s answers, which was most widespread in the
Sergey Temchin
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Sections of polar actions [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
In this short note we provide an elementary proof of the folklore result in the theory of isometric Lie group actions on Riemannian manifolds asserting that sections of polar actions are totally geodesic.
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