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Poesía infantil sefardí: de la tradición oral a las canciones de cuna contemporáneas

Ocnos, 2017
La poesía infantil es un género literario con características propias, tanto en su forma como en su contenido, que cumple una función social de gran importancia en todas las culturas.
Elisa Martin-Ortega, Agnieszka August-Zarebska   +1 more
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FOLKLORE INTENTIONS OF A SMALL PROSE OF THE MODERN UKRAINIAN WRITER IVANNA STEFIUK (ABOUT THE COLLECTION "ABOUT YOU")

Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary Studies. Linguistics. Folklore Studies
Background. Multilevel contacts of folk and authorial creativity as two related systems of literature have interested researchers since the emergence of literature as a separate area of culture. Over time, such assistance changes, therefore in the modern
Z. Yankovska
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The Wedding Ceremony in Kazakh Folklore: Yesterday and Today

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
The study aims to analyze the most significant area of family and household ritual folklore, which is regarded as a complex system of folklore studies, and to showcase the extent of research on these topics in national folklore.
A.Zh. Mukhan, Kenzhekhan Matyzhanov, Z. Bugybayeva, Akedil Toishanuly   +3 more
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Folklore's Gender Problem

Journal of American Folklore
:This 15-part forum challenges the Journal of American Folklore's readership to contemplate explicitly and publicly what we should do about the professional legacies of colleagues in our field who are known to or alleged to have harmed others through ...
JoAnn Conrad
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Ritual Labour and Maintenance of Tradition in a Village Temple: An Occupational Folklore Approach to Chinese Religion

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
This paper is a study of ritual and profession at a temple in a demolished village in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, South China. The study focuses on two ritual service providers (RSPs) who 1) offer services within fortune-telling, divination and feng ...
Adam Grydehøj, Qi Pan
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Of Dancing and Drinking Stones: New Perspectives on the Folklore of Orcadian Megaliths

Folklore
The preservation of bygone views on sites and landscapes in folktales has been widely recognized, with further echoes of these ideas reverberating in local place names.
Nela Scholma-Mason
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Folklore and Social Anthropology in Amazonia

Folklore
This special section of Folklore focuses on Amazonia (lowland South America) and calls for greater interdisciplinary engagement between anthropology and folklore in this region. The articles included here began as papers in a symposium titled ‘ Amazonia:
James Andrew Whitaker, Natalia Buitron
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Indigenous Folklore in the Circum-Mount Roraima Landscape

Folklore
This article analyses oral histories and folklore documented during ethnogeographic fieldwork in the circum-Mount Roraima landscape that transcends Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela.
D. Cooper
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Constitutional Landmarks: Revered Sites of South-West Finnish Folklore and Social Space-Making

Folklore
Finnish folklore archives contain a wealth of information about revered or sacred sites of folk belief, the locations of which have not been thoroughly studied before.
John Björkman
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An Experience-Centred Approach to Animal Folklore in Denmark: Challenging Rationalistic Interpretations of Supernatural Animal Narratives

Folklore
Encounters with supernatural animals are common to folklore around the world. Narratives of first-person encounters with strange animals tend to be rationalistically ascribed natural explanations, presumably because (unlike ghosts, fairies, and monsters)
Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su
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