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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Eksistensi Cerita Rakyat dalam Pendidikan Karakter Siswa SD di Ubud
Jurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies), 2015 Balinese folktales should be preserved and developed in order to improve the emotional intelligence of the nation, especially elementary school children as the future generation.
Ni Putu Parmini
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Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 778-789, July 2026.ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola +3 more
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Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but ...
Anna Notsu
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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Oral Tradition, 2003 My area of research is the folktale, marvelous tales in particular. Over the past six years I have been working on a classified index of Portuguese folktales soon to be finished. I envisage oral tradition/oral literature as the outcome of active transmission of a given narrative through many links and over a certain span of time ...
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Reimagining Inclusivity in Literacy Education for African Immigrant Adolescents
Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 6, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study explored how an Afrocentric literacy workshop can reimagine inclusivity in literacy education for African immigrant adolescents. Drawing on Afrocentricity and Transnational Identity Theory, I facilitated a 10‐week virtual literacy workshop with six African immigrant high school students from Nigeria.
Olumide Ajayi
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Antroponime şi nume de locuri sacre în basmul românesc / AnthroponymsandDenominations of SacredPlaces in Romanian Folktales [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2018 Names of characters and denominations of sacred places in Romanian folktales are not mere conventions the reader has to accept unequivocally in order to play the reading game as it generally happens in high culture literature.
Cristina-Ileana Ilea Rogojină
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International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 252-271, May 2026.Abstract Participatory research methods have a focus on facilitating research processes that engage with participants and, as such, aim to promote individual voice, facilitate richer reflection and dialogue, and enable the articulation of participants' unique experiences.
Angela Eckhoff
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