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Phantom Limbs: Affect, Haptics and ‘Partes De Mucha Gente’ in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra Parte De Noche

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
In Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains ...
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
wiley   +1 more source

A Feminist Interpretation of Baek Heena’s Picture Books about Grandmothers

open access: yesStrenae
Traditional families in Korean folktales often emphasize rigid gender-role stereotypes and idealize self-sacrificing women. This tradition has also influenced Korean picture books for a long time.
Jieun Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 12, Page 3297-3312, December 2025.
Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An exploration of language identification techniques for the Dutch folktale database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Dutch Folktale Database contains fairy tales, traditional legends, urban legends, and jokes written in a large variety and combination of languages including (Middle and 17th century) Dutch, Frisian and a number of Dutch dialects.
Hiemstra, Djoerd   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Political Polarization and Traditional Folktales: Examining Conflicts in the Legend of Mirah-Golan

open access: yesAl-Adabiya: Jurnal Kebudayaan dan Keagamaan
The folktales of Mirah and Golan in Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia, are deeply embedded with cultural and social values, reflecting political polarity closely linked to group conflicts and dynamics.
Muhammad Diaz Supandi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Folk Story from Dhofar A Pathway to Indigenous Knowledge

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2015
Folktales serve certain aspects and involve meaningful intentions in the society. This paper assess a Dhofari folk story in Oman. The story denotes the significance of folk explanation for the first emergence of poultry in Dhofar.
Ali Tigani ElMahi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Category of Terrible in the Tale and the Ethnic and Cultural Education in Kindergarten

open access: yesЭтническая культура, 2019
Relatives of child told him the tales before appearance the kindergartens as special institutions, and then the role of this narrators was passed on the kindergarten teachers, which were standing to read the folk and author's work on books.
Elena A. Samodelova
doaj   +1 more source

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