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Connecting the dots: Views on promoting Bidayuh language learning via e-folktales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Many attempts have been made to encourage the younger generation of indigenous communities to learn their mother tongue. More often than not, such efforts fail since proficiency in the mother tongue is perceived as irrelevant in offering opportunities ...
Chuah, Kee-Man   +2 more
core  

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Devenir du conte en Union soviétique à la fin des années 1980 : l’exemple des Contes de l’armoise de Jurij Koval’

open access: yesILCEA, 2014
This paper studies The Folktales of mugwort [Polynnye skazki] by Yuri Koval’, based on his mother’s childhood memories. We will focuse on two apparently contradictory aspects of this text: the realism of the context and the wonderful aspect of folktales.
Laure Thibonnier
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental Unity and Cultural Variation in Forms of Metarepresentational False Belief Understanding

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Around age four, children in urban, post‐industrial societies begin to understand the subjectivity of beliefs and other mental states: they can be true or false, and they are aspectual, representing situations under specific descriptions. These two insights have been found to emerge in tandem, suggesting a shift toward a metarepresentational ...
Ljubica Petrović   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mpoto Fables and Folktales (Tanzania)

open access: yes, 2017
LIST OF RECORDINGS — FABLES: 1) Ndava Linyaunyau liyenda nyatanyata wichu — "Why Spider moves very fast" (recorded 2/13/14); 2) Ndava Kapecha ayii ni nkela uyipi — "Why Hare has a short tail" (recorded 10/8/13); 3) Ndava Kapecha ni Lwiha hiyii hee ...
Botne, Robert, Mwingira, Margaret P.
core   +1 more source

The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion, 1916–1943

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 455-466, September 2026.
Abstract This article argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history was deeply rooted in his early philosophy of religion as expounded in Religion and Philosophy (1916). Although scholars have tended to separate Collingwood's early religious ideas from his later writings, this study demonstrates that his theory of history was informed by his ...
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

De criadas, sisas y gatos: huellas de un cuento folclórico árabe (ATU 1373) en la España de los siglos XIX y XX / Servants, Pilferage and Cats: Some Traces of an Arab Folktale (ATU 1373) in Spain during the 19th and 20th Centuries

open access: yesBoletín de Literatura Oral, 2018
Resumen. En la Granada nazarí de finales del siglo XIV, un literato llamado Ibn ʿĀṣim reproducía la primera versión ibérica del cuento folclórico ATU 1373. Partiendo de ella –cuyo texto es el único árabe medieval desarrollado que nos ha sido transmitido–,
Desirée López Bernal
doaj   +1 more source

Delphi Participant as an Ancestor: Introducing the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer for Mitigating Future Discounting Bias in Southern Africa Collectivist Culture

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer (UIP), a culturally grounded cognitive debiasing intervention designed to mitigate future discounting bias among Real‐Time Delphi (RTD) participants in Southern Africa. Learning from prior research engagements and informed by the region's cultural settings, we innovated around the Rip ...
Simbarashe Nhokovedzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What do Birds Sing? On Animal Language in South Slavic Folklore
Kaj ptiči pojó? O živalski govorici v južnoslovanski folklori

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2017
Contemporary scientific studies of ecosystems encompass different aspects of vocality, including the communication systems (“languages”) of individual animal species.
Zmago Šmitek
doaj   +1 more source

The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This study aims to describe and explain (1) the hero figure and his worldview in the folktales ‘The Legend of Sunan Kalijaga’ and ‘The Legend of Ki Ageng Pandanaran’; and (2) Sunan Kalijaga’s struggle and patriotism in the two folktales. This research is
Nugraheni E. Wardani
doaj   +1 more source

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