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Shifting Established Mindsets and Praxis in Libraries: Five Insights for Making Non-Western Knowledge Digitally Accessible through Community Engagement

Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2019
This paper is a reflection on the challenges encountered and decisions made as part of a multi-year community-based action research project to digitally curate a living oral tradition.
Karim Tharani
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Philippine and South African Experiences on Folk Literature Research: Relevance, Gains, and Challenges

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching
Folkloric studies have accelerated in the Philippines and South Africa because the Academe acknowledged the urgency to collect, preserve, and publish the oral traditions of indigenous communities.
Connie Makgabo, Genevieve J Quintero
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Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
In this article, I examine the representation of environmental issues in Amazigh narratives. I focus on texts that address the relationships between humans, society, the environment, and colonial greed.
Anna Maria di Tolla
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Creation, Preservation and Documentation of Oral Tradition in Ancient Yorùbá and Hebraic Cultures

Yoruba Studies Review
Oral tradition in both ancient Yoruba and Hebraic cultures has remained challenging in contemporary times. This study therefore comparatively examines the creation, preservation, and documentation of oral tradition in ancient Yoruba and Hebraic cultures
Abimbola Fagbe, Ucheawaji G. Josiah, Eleazar E. Ufomba   +2 more
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Living Hadis

Farabi, 2015
Living hadith is the sunnah of the Prophet who freely interpreted by scholars, rulers and judges according to their situation, or also known as the "living sunnah".
M.Khoiril Anwar
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Disaster, nature, and narrative: A comparative study of Acehnese and Ainu oral traditions [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Natural disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, significantly impact human existence, particularly in coastal and island environments like Indonesia and Japan.
Rahwati Wawat, Fadhilah, Mulyadi Budi, Alia Ariefa Nina   +3 more
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Ustno izročilo o lintverju kot indikator ritualnega prostora antične skupnosti Ajdovščine nad Rodikom
The Oral Tradition about Lintver as an Indicator of the Ritual Place of Ajdovščina above Rodik’s Antique Community

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015
The article is part of a B.A. thesis in which the author studies the relations between folk traditions and archaeological research. She analyses the oral traditions related to a mythical figure called Lintver, a kind of a snake-like dragon that ...
Katja Hrobat
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Connections and Integration: Oral Traditions/Quantum Paradigm

Coolabah, 2013
This paper begins by mentioning the deep connections between art and science and how these connections, which in certain periods of time had been practically ignored, have recently received much consideration. The present attention comes from specialists
Dolors Collellmir
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The prophet Enoch among the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula

Journal de la Société des Américanistes
Mayas in Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico, tell stories of having been visited by a prophet of the apocalypse who called himself Enoch. This article relates the content of those stories, reveals the identity of the alleged prophet, and explores how Mayas
Paul Sullivan
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TIME, ORAL TRADITION, AND TECHNOLOGY [PDF]

, 2018
Time, oral tradition and technology https://www.jstor.org/stable/j ...
Martindale, Andrew, Shneiderman, Sara, Turin, Mark   +2 more
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