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The Youth Festival “Oytulaash” in the Traditional Culture of Tuvans

open access: yesOriental 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
doaj   +1 more source

Narrative Switching in Entrepreneurial Failure Accounts: Unravelling Discourse Dynamics and Variability

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Muinastulede öö [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

‘"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Looks at the sub-genre of the killer bee movies but through the lens of legend studies - specifically looking at these films as belief ...
Koven, Mikel
core   +1 more source

It's (in)escapable: Critically reflecting on a second language curriculum in a settler colonial context

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

'The show must go on': Event dramaturgy as consolidation of community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Event dramaturgy and cultural performance have not been examined in the literature from a strategic standpoint of fostering the social value of events. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the case of the Water Carnival, a celebratory event in ...
Berg B. L.   +20 more
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Traditional cultural expressions and copyright law: Denoting the long‐lasting confusion

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Flener, Sheila Gail (Sullivan), b. 1958 (FA 517) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Collection includes material collected by Sheila S. Flener for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Included is an interview with Frank Sullivan about his childhood, family, and Korean War service and a PowerPoint presentation dealing with ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
core   +1 more source

When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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