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Appreciation of Igbo Folktales and Songs Versus Realism [PDF]
, 2011 Igbo folktales are fiction. Folktales are regarded as fictitious, senseless and totally devoid of truth and reality and totally removed from real life situation and events.
UJ Ogbalu, Ogbalu, UJ
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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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Valor, Enric: Valencian Folktales, translated by Paul Scott Derrick and Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor. London-New York: Routledge, 2003, 2 vols.Valor, Enric: Valencian Folktales, translated by Paul Scott Derrick and Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor.
Beltran Llavador, Rafael
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, 2012 This presentation will show how folktales can improve all four skills, as well as inspire and motivate students to become involved in community service projects. Folktales can provide a vehicle for analysis of human characteristics such as generosity and
Myrick, Michelle
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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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Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales
As Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp already set out in his monograph Theory and History of Folklore (1984), folktales, and in particular fairy tales, could preserve the remnants of myths and rites from very ancient stages of human civilisation, dating ...
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The Structural Analysis of Sesotho Folktales: Propp’s Approach [PDF]
, 2014 Published ArticleThis study attempts to show that Vlamidir Propp‟s Morphological Analysis of Russian Folktales has an influence in the way Sesotho folktales are being analysed.
Phindane, P.
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Wah Academia Journal of Social SciencesFolktales are an important part of any culture and have traditionally been associated with its oral literature. Folktales usually contain the ideological and cultural capital of a society and can be analyzed to explore the history of that society.
Safeer Hussain
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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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