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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Ecocriticism Values In The Indonesian Folktale Timun Emas (Golden Cucumber)
Humaniora, 2018 The article presented how to learn an Indonesian folktale entitled Timun Emas which related to the process of the environment. The elements of fiction in this folktale, the setting, was a clue in relating the nature and the human which was part of eco ...
Retnowati Retnowati +2 more
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Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2608-2624, December 2025.ABSTRACTAnimal medical systems encompass a wide range of behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving health. It has become clear that these behaviours are not limited to animals treating themselves (self‐medication) but also include the treatment of group members, resulting in the adoption of the more inclusive term “animal medication”. Behaviour with
Michelina Pusceddu +5 more
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 623-628, September 2025.ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLLs)—at a US university. I explore the felt contradictions and tensions that get voiced when attempting to navigate the uneasy relationship between two terms: “mother tongue” and ...
Arnaaz Khwaja
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Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 2019 Anonim halk edebiyatının en bilinen türlerinden biri olan ve aynı zamanda bir anlatı türü olan masal, insanlık tarihinin geçmişinden günümüze kadar çok önemli bilgiler barındırmak ve aktarmakla birlikte toplumsal yaşamın her aşamasında önemli bir rol ...
Ahmet Güneş
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Théorie mimétique et littérature orale : Le cas du conte-type nº 212 « La chèvre menteuse »
Carnets, 2018 The Lying Goat is a traditional narrative that reinforces René Girard’s mimetic theory about understanding folktales. Indeed, the narrative portrays a crisis of indifferentiation, mimetic characters, transgression, lynching and even saving death. More is
Daniel Aranda
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Suar Betang, 2019 The paper examines the transformation of “Jaka Tarub”, a folktale contained in Babad Tanah Jawi, into the play Jaka Tarub by Akhudiat. Jaka Tarub by Akhudiat is a two-act play that is parodic in style.
Lina Meilinawati Rahayu +2 more
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Folktales as indigenous pedagogic tools for educating school children: A mixed methods study among the Nso of Cameroon. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Wiysahnyuy LF, Valentine NB.
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Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Fronterizo Influence in Aucassin and Nicolette
Revista de Lenguas Modernas, 2011 Bakhtin?s carnival, hero of gay deceit and framing genres, Anti Arne?s typology of the folktale, and Vladimir Propp?s morphology of the folktale are the main theories employed in this analysis of the anonymous poem Aucassin et Nicolette.
Lai Sai Acón Chan
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