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The Youth Festival “Oytulaash” in the Traditional Culture of Tuvans
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article discusses the symbolic nature of traditional games of Tuvan youth festival “Oytulaash”. The author concludes that being a relic of the initiation rites and chaotic group marriage, these games were aimed at evoking the fruitful forces of ...
E. V. Aiyzhy, S. B. Mainy
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The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History
Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 85-103, Winter 2025.Abstract This article examines how the Palestinian Authority has used postage stamps as a tool to construct national identity, shape collective memory, and convey political messages during what it hoped would be a transition to statehood. The analysis focuses on three themes of stamps issued between 1994 and 2023: the struggle for independence and ...
Ido Zelkovitz, Yehiel Limor
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MäetagusedThe article focuses on the initiation, spread, and implementation of the tradition of the night of ancient bonfires, mapping the cultural environment and describing the internal and external socio-cultural factors, as well as connections to identity ...
Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov
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Stories of coexistence: A narrative inquiry of leopard attacks on people
People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 10, Page 2532-2543, October 2025.Abstract Pursuing human–wildlife coexistence is particularly challenging for carnivore species as conflict can negatively impact human livelihood and well‐being. Understanding the social context of how communities perceive conflicts with carnivores, often witnessed in their folklore and stories, can shed light on pathways for fostering coexistence.
Shweta Shivakumar +3 more
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British Journal of Management, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 1616-1634, October 2025.Abstract This inductive study investigates the phenomenon of narrative switching in accounts of failure within entrepreneurial contexts, which occurs when a narrator suddenly switches to an alternative story of the events within the same interaction.
Rachid Jabbouri +3 more
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How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 982-1002, October 2025.Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with 66 Sunni Muslim Kurdish elites, this study reveals that Kurdish Islamic circles in Turkey are not monolithic, homogeneous or fixed. Some willingly or unwillingly maintain their Islamic identity as a primary reference point for self‐consciousness, motivation for collective action and political aspirations ...
Muttalip Caglayan
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 3, Page 528-549, Autumn (Fall) 2025.Abstract In this article, we critically examine the Ontario, Canada secondary French as a second language (FSL) curriculum to unpack the ways it both resists and perpetuates colonial, racist, and oppressive discourses. By engaging in this analysis, we aim to inspire language teacher educators to envision and critically engage with alternative ...
Shawna M. Carroll +3 more
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Traditional cultural expressions and copyright law: Denoting the long‐lasting confusion
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 568-588, July 2025.Abstract The paper shows that protecting traditional cultural expressions through the scope of copyright law is an erroneous approach and that recognition of folklore should be a separate issue outside of the copyright scope. It examines the key incompatibilities between the individualistic nature of copyright and the collective, culturally embedded ...
Mariam Aroian
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Kultuuriidentiteet, rahvuslus ja muutused laulutraditsioonis
Mäetagused, 1998 The article describes some alterations in singing traditions from the aspect of sociocultural context and viewed from the Estonian perspective, providing a historical and social background of singing traditions, including the survey of the `national ...
Kristin Kuutma
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