How oral traditions develop: a cautionary tale on cultural evolution from the Quechuan-speaking Andes [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsWhile large-scale comparative and historical analysis of folktales has largely disappeared from anthropological inquiry after the wane of diffusionism in the early 20th century, such approaches are experiencing a revival in the framework of cultural ...
Matthias Urban
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Introduction: Edible Alterities, Perspectives from La Francophonie [PDF]
PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2013 This special issue of Portal contains papers that investigate the ways in which food and food cultures have created but have also disrupted links between different parts of the Fancophone world and between Francophone culture and other societies.
Angela Giovanangeli, Julie Robert
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Intertextuality and National Literatures in the Context of Comparative Literature Research [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2014 20th-century literary theory discovered another possible way for world literature to exist and include all national literatures and cultures: the concepts of ‘intertextuality’ and / or ‘multimediality’ mean that contacts between cultural texts work as a ...
Anneli Mihkelev
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Polish Literature for Children and Youth in a Comparative Perspective (Selective Problems) [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2014 Literature for children and youth in a comparative perspective is a wide and complex problem. The issues in this article are organized mainly in relation to such problems and categories as cultural topography, comparative history of children’s literature,
Ryszard Waksmund, Dorota Michułka
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How Language Creates Bonds among Cross-Cultural Communities
Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 The objective of this thesis is to evaluate how the use of language creates bonds among cross-cultural communities. Language is an important aspect of human relationships because it is the primary way of communication.
Shalaw S. Abdulrahman
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Folk taxonomy and indigenous names for frogs in Zululand, South Africa
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019 Background We use taxonomy to organize the world into recognizable units. Folk taxonomy deals with the naming and classification of organisms through culture. Unlike its scientific counterpart, folk taxonomy is mostly undocumented, the Zoological Code of
Fortunate M. Phaka +3 more
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பேராசிரியர் ந. சுப்புரெட்டியாரின் மொழிபெயர்ப்புத்திறன் / Professor N. Subbu Reddiar’s Translation Skills [PDF]
International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2022 Humans used language as a tool to convey their ideas to one another but today there are many different languages in the world. As languages are different, so are the culture, civilization, and customs of the people who exist in the world. The literature
மோ. இந்துமா / M. Induma +1 more
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Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith’s Translation Style in The Freedom Fight and Treasury of Childhood Memories
Yoruba Studies Review, 2022 The steady but relentless globalization of the world makes translation highly pertinent to the understanding of different endeavors and spheres, from education and the economy to politics and religion. Thus, translation as a conduit for the transmission
Tolulope Ibikunle
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“Provincializing” world literature: The role of translations in shaping 19th-century Latvian culture
World Literature Studies, 2022 The concept of world literature is traditionally applied to the process in which literary texts cross national borders through translation, being and becoming available in major languages, thus gaining recognition on a larger scale as a desired added ...
P. Daija, Benedikts Kalnačs
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Reflection of Linguistic Elements of Popular Culture of Iran and Pakistan in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani and Parveen Shakir [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2023 . Introduction One of the ways to enrich the content of poetry is to use the cultural supports that have existed in Persian poetry for a long time. The range of cultural supports used in Persian poetry is very wide and includes references to the Qur'an ...
Ali Ahmad Shirazi +2 more
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