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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
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, 2009 In this interview Dben zen discusses a number of local home remediesThis collection presents forty-nine audio files including: several folk song genres; folktales and; local history from the Sman shad Valley of Sde dge CountyWorld Oral Literature ...
Zla ba sgrol ma
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives [PDF]
, 2013 Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Wicher, Andrzej
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
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Autour de la mort prématurée dans l’oralité igbo [PDF]
, 2011 This study, based on nine folktales recorded between 1972 and 1987 in Anambra, Enugu and Imo States of Nigeria, considers the traditional attitude towards untimely deaths, especially repeated children’s deaths as presented in oral literature. The article
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/June 2026.Short Abstract This article critically examines the role of Indigenous knowledge and mobile livelihoods in contemporary climate adaptation practices, highlighting how these efforts often risk perpetuating colonial power structures and sedentary biases.
Nuhu Adeiza Ismail +10 more
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Appendix A: Storytelling in the School Library Media Center: Bibliography and Resources [PDF]
, 1998 published or submitted for ...
Shimojima, Anne
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Things that don't come by the road: Folktales, fosterage, and memories of slavery in the Cameroon grassfields [PDF]
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Argenti, N
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Nima's “Incomplete” Humans: Storying Adolescents’ Black Inhabitations in Accra
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
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In search of an appropriate abstraction level for motif annotations [PDF]
, 2012 In: Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, (pp. 22-28).
Bosch, A.P.J. van den +5 more
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