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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Poetry of Burma's literary frontiers

, 2020
The Burmese poetic canon has long been dominated by writers in the main cities of the central plains, in Burmese language, privileging text over oral form.
Gilbert, David, Cho, Violet
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Belonging in Ancient Greek Oral Tradition

Between, 2017
In the paper I will discuss the notion of belonging in Ancient Greek oral tradition. I will argue that oral literature, because of the specific nature of oral language, promotes belonging to a particular locus, community and culture.
Blaž Zabel
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
- Frog
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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"Where now the harp?" Listening for the sounds of Old English verse, from Beowulf to the twentieth century

, 2011
Additional multimedia to accompany this article is available from http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24ii/jonesThis essay examines the representation or staging of oral performance and poetic composition within Beowulf, in order to argue that poem ...
Jones, Chris
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Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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From Oral Literature to Technauriture: What’s in a Name?

, 2011
Oral traditions and oral literature have long contributed to human communication, yet the advent of arguably the most influential technology—the written word—altered the course of creative ability.
Mostert, André M, Kaschula, Russell H
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Poetry’s Political Future(s): Deliberating Democracy and Justice in Somaliland

Nordic Journal of African Studies
In February 2017, a poem titled “Muddici” (‘Plaintiff’) by Hargeysa-based poet Weedhsame went viral on social media. The poem accused members of Somaliland’s government of corruption and quickly elicited a series of supporting and opposing responses ...
Christina J. Woolner
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