Tesis: "Oral traditions"

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Daskalopoulos, Anastasios A. "Homer, the manuscripts, and comparative oral traditions /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9953854.

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Lee, Peace Bakwon. "A Performance Analysis of Chaoxianzu Oral Traditions in Yanbian, China". The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392300971.

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Gnoato, Linda <1994&gt. "Mzwakhe Mbuli, “The People’s Poet”. Keeping South African Oral Traditions Alive". Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14486.

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The purpose of this work is to analyse the work of Mzwakhe Mbuli. He has been playing a significant part in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid and social issues, employing the power of his words. This dissertation will begin with an introductory chapter on the historical context concerning the years in which Mzwakhe has lived and that have influenced his career, highlighting the situation brought into being by apartheid until the 1990s and the first free South African elections. A brief look at the present days will also be provided. Being Mzwakhe Mbuli an oral poet, the second chapter will cover an overview on the tradition of oral poetry, both in South Africa and in other African countries, considering, furthermore, the cases in which oral poetry is accompanied by music. A third chapter will present Mzwakhe Mbuli’s biography, firstly focusing on the most significant historical events that have characterised his life, and secondly, taking into consideration the different literary and musical traditions that might have influenced the poet’s work. Specific examples of the poetic and performative activity of Mzwakhe will be more thoroughly analysed in the fourth chapter. Here, the focus will be given on how Mzwakhe brings forth the oral tradition in South Africa, providing a chronological outline and evolution of his work. Significant poems, lyrics, and performances will be analysed as milestones of his production, centring on both formal and thematic aspects, such as rhetorical strategies and social impact. This dissertation will end with a chapter that will draw some considerations about what Mzwakhe Mbuli has been meaning for the world of poetry and oral performance and for the social and cultural advancement of South Africa.

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Brinton, Ruth M. "The southern French child at play : aspects of his traditional oral lore". Thesis, University of Bath, 1985. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370457.

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This study concerns an investigation of the oral traditions of the contemporary child in southern France, and sets out to disprove the widely held belief that such traditions have disappeared as a result of the levelling influence of the media upon today's children. Attention is focused upon the child of eight to ten years of age, investigating that part of his world normally ignored, even denied, by adults: that is, those games and rhymes passed down by word of mouth from the older child to the younger, generation after generation. Unlike any previous detailed study of juvenile lore in twentieth-century France, this thesis considers the entire spectrum of traditional play in the context of the 'child-to-child complex'. The study has involved extensive fieldwork in the Midi, recording and transcribing the language and lore of children at play. This practical work has been backed up by detailed historical research into the documentation of child lore in France from the thirteenth century until the present day. Account has been taken both of literary references to children's games, which provide important data for historical and comparative analysis, and of the various manuals and collections of games which exist in France. From the vast range of materials amassed, common characteristics and clear divisions between the various play activities recorded have been identified, enabling a detailed classification to be made of the data collected. Such a classification has not hitherto been achieved in France. Through an investigation of the closed and mysterious world of the playground, a world where children gather among themselves, this study aims to present an autonomous society, regulated by the jurisdictions of its own code, where rhymes and games are communicated from one child to the next, away from the restrictive eye of the adult.

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Watkins, Carl S. "Wonders in central medieval chronicles of the Anglo-Norman realm". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272504.

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Kabuta, N. S. "La formule et l'autopanégyrique dans les traditions orales africaines: étude structurelle". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212519.

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Cole, Tiffany W. "Moonshining in Rockingham County : a case study on oral traditions and folkways /". Full-text of dissertation on the Internet (806.55 KB), 2010. http://www.lib.jmu.edu/general/etd/2010/masters/coletw/coletw_masters_04-26-2010_01.pdf.

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Wilson, Michael. "A study of oral narrative traditions amongst teenagers in Britain and Ireland". Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337749.

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Saldana, Perez Joel Angel y Perez Joel Angel Saldana. "Remedios de mi tierra: An Oral History Project on the Changes and Continuity of the Traditional Healing Knowledge and Practices of a Mexican Immigrant Mother from Guanajuato, Mexico". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625695.

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This thesis looks at the impact of migration and place on the traditional healing knowledge and practices of a Mexican immigrant mother from Guanajuato, Mexico: Sofia Perez. Through the use of oral history methodology and the application of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW) model and the Social Ecological Model (SEM) to analyze the narratives, this study looks at the origin of Sofia's healing knowledge and practices and at how she has managed to keep these traditions alive despite migrating to the United States and living in a society that may not believe in the efficacy of these healing traditions. The application of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW) model provided insight into the healing traditions of Sofia's home community and the ways in which these were learned, practiced, and preserved and proved useful in looking at how this was done by Sofia before and after migrating. Next, the Social Ecological Model (SEM) proved useful in looking at how place and its various social, cultural, and ecological aspects have influenced Sofia's use of traditional medicine since she migrated. Overall, Sofia's knowledge and practices have been impacted by migration and place; however, she continues to practice these traditions as best as she can.

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Abdul, Hadi Nurul Ikhlas. "Mothers, lovers others : an evolutionary analysis of womanhood in Western Malayo-Polynesian oral traditions". Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16876/.

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This thesis is the first to study female characters from Western Malayo-Polynesian oral tradition. It is also the first to apply an evolutionary literary analysis to these stories. The aim was to analyse the life history cycle of women as portrayed in oral stories from the Western Malayo-Polynesian language group, which includes languages spoken across southern Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, the island states of western Micronesia, and Madagascar. The general principle behind evolutionary literary theory is that any knowledge (including stories) generated by the mind is a biological phenomenon and worthy of scientific study. This tenet is then compounded with an evolutionary understanding of life whereby all animals, including humans, are driven to ensure somatic success through the preservation of life, and reproductive success through the proliferation of genes. It is argued that oral stories contain implicit evolutionary ‘lessons’ that may assist humans in obtaining somatic and reproductive success. The most recurring evolutionary theme in female-led Western Malayo-Polynesian oral stories revolves around reproductive success, with approximately 90% of stories in this thesis focusing either on family life or the search for a partner. In the section ‘Tales of Family Life’, stories portray the complexity of family dynamics, showing how family members must sacrifice their selfish interests for the sake of their kin in order to maximize the propagation of their genes. In ‘Tales of Searching for a Partner’, heroines take part in complex mate attraction and retention strategies, showing that the search for a ‘Happily Ever After’ (or evolutionary fitness) is not always a straightforward journey. Unsurprisingly, themes without direct correlations with evolutionary fitness form only 10% of the entire corpus. ‘Tales Beyond Family and Partners’ attempt to explore stories of evolutionary anomalies through the phenomenon of childfree and heroic women. Evolutionary studies, however, have yet to provide a satisfactory theory on women whose behaviour seems to hold little or no reproductive advantages, and analysis of these types of stories would benefit from further research. As a multidisciplinary study, this thesis is able to impact future research in three different ways. Firstly, it is hoped that it will bring attention to and increase knowledge of the lesser known and under-studied Western Malayo-Polynesian oral traditions. Secondly, the thesis can also serve as a model for the application of evolutionary theory to the folkloric study of oral stories. Finally, it shows the potential of applying evolutionary literary theory to non-Western cultures. It is hoped that future research will be able to expand the findings of this thesis either through larger or more concentrated pools of data, with the aim of emphasizing the universal drives that underlie our common humanity.

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Williamson, James. "The Book of the Covenant : a comparison of diachronic and synchronic approaches". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342987.

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Nolan, Grace. "The stories my mother told me : A comparative study of the folktales of Palmi in the context of the European oral tradition". Master's thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2002. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/72d8a6d0c9fb59445d6552436fa3da71efcd74e3dd3d09f1c9743007e4d6a6cd/3006149/Nolan_2002_The_stories_my_mother_told_me.pdf.

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Aims The aim of this thesis is to record and preserve folktales from the oral tradition of the town of Palmi in Calabria, Southern Italy. It examines how the tales were the product of the time, place and culture from which they originated and how they reflected and transmitted the values and beliefs of that particular culture. It takes what has only ever existed in the oral tradition and transposes it into written text in the dialect of Palmi, which is then translated into English. It also seeks to place the stories within the broader context of the European Folktale Tradition. Scope The thesis examines stories from the oral tradition of the family of Mrs Carmela Speranza which were told to her by her father. It does not attempt to document the wider oral traditions of the town of Palmi, rather concentrating on the stories that were told within this one family. Reference is made to other collections of Italian folktales taken from the oral tradition, including the works of writers such as Italo Calvino. Attention is also given to collections of folktales taken specifically from the Calabrian region, in particular the works of Letterio Di Francia and Raffaele Lombardi Satriani. The thesis further attempts to examine Mrs Speranza’s stories within the conventions of folktale analysis and to show through this that they belong to the broader European Folktale Tradition. Conclusions The thesis concludes that the folktales told by Mrs Speranza are drawn from the oral tradition. They reflect the values and customs of the society from which they came and reveal universal truths about the human condition. The thesis also concludes that the stories can be justifiably placed within the broader context of the European Folktale Tradition as they contain the essential elements of these types of tales, complying, for example, with Olrik’s ‘Epic Laws of Folk Narrative’ and Bascom’s ‘Four Functions of Folklore.’ The stories also contain the style, composition, themes and structures which Luthi has identified as hallmarks of the European folktale.

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Clinton, Mary S. "Human development, life stages, aging, and gerotranscendence as related to the benefits and frameworks for reminiscence, life review, oral traditions and storytelling a review of the literature /". Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999clintonm.pdf.

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Arazi, Noemie. "Tracing history in the inland Niger Delta of Mali : archaeology, oral traditions and written sources". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426077.

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Agu, Ogonna Chibuzo. "An examination of the Nri-Igbo concept of Chi in the light of oral traditions". Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1990. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28748/.

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The concept of Chi has been one of the most debated in Igbo Traditions, and yet the most ambiguous, enigmatic, and controversial to date. Right from the pre-colonial times, the early European writers who visited Igboland observed the important place this concept had in the lives of the people. During the colonial period the official anthropologists to the British government and some independent scholars in the field called sufficient attention to this concept through their works. To them Chi meant various things starting from the Supreme God to the personal tutelary god of the individual. There was the tendency to look at this concept from the view-point of western cultural assumptions. Even with the indigenous Igbo writers themselves, the problem was how to to shake the climate of thought already established by the earlier writers. This study sets out to look critically at these prevailing assumptions of Chi from an entirely new perspective. Limiting its scope to the Nri-Igbo cultural range, it brings the study immediately into focus by maintainting that the concept is integrally related to the objective reality of the sun Anyaanwu with which it has often been associated. This it has done by relating the subject of Chi to an increased context of its verbal use. Starting from this premise of its association with the sun, the concept is seen as the window by which day and night can be explained, and following from them, the mysteries of life and death, individual destinies etc. It goes further to contest the assumption that Chi is the supreme God, a latter day development, perhaps, but this after its complexities have necessarily been rigorously analyzed.

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Leith, Eleanor Crowther. "Moving beyond words in Scotland's corp-oral traditions : British Sign Language storytelling meets the 'deaf public voice'". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23449.

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Scotland’s oral traditions have received scholarly attention since the 18th Century; however, collection and analysis has exclusively focused on those passed on ‘by word of mouth,’ and the traditional arts of Scotland’s deaf communities have been overlooked. This thesis begins to address this oversight by examining storytelling practices passed on ‘by sign of hand’ in British Sign Language (BSL). Neither fully acculturated to majority society nor ‘foreigners in their own country’ (Murray 2008:102), signing-deaf people have distinct ways of ‘doing’ culture which involve negotiating a bilingual-bicultural continuum between the hearing and deaf worlds. The historical exclusion of signing-deaf culture from conceptualisations of Scotland’s cultural heritage is increasingly being challenged, both overtly and tacitly, through an emergent ‘deaf public voice’ (Bechter 2008:72); in light of this, I consider three case-studies in which BSL storytelling practices have been placed in the public domain. Drawing on fieldwork, interviews and the in-depth analysis of BSL performance-texts, I examine the ways in which signing-deaf biculturality is expressed and performed, and consider the artistry involved in storytelling in a visual-spatial-kinetic language. In so doing, a working methodology is proposed for presenting signed material to non-signers, laying the groundwork for further collection and analysis. Applying Bauman and Murray’s concept of ‘Deaf Gain’ (2009), I argue that the study of this new corpus of oral material has a radical contribution to make to the field of ethnology and folklore, not least in highlighting phonocentric assumptions embedded in the study of oral traditions. I emphasise the extent to which the transmission of culture is predicated on particular ‘techniques of the body’ (Mauss 1973), and argue that, in drawing on different modality-specific affordances, both spoken and signed storytelling should be understood as part of the totality of Scotland’s ‘corp-oral’ traditions through which culture is transmitted ‘by performance of body.’

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Rogers, Katherine y Katherine Rogers. "Written Fragments of an Oral Tradition: "Re-Envisioning" the Seventeenth-Century Division Violin". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12433.

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Seventeenth-century division violin music is not considered part of the classical canon, but its background as a European art form may make it seem “too Western” for traditional ethnomusicological study. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: first, I outline the historical context, transmission, and performance practice of division violin playing in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also of interest to me is the way in which we, as musicologists, study oral tradition within the context of a musical culture that no longer exists today. After an exploration of the ideas of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Walter Ong, Ruth Finnegan, and Slavica Ranković, I discuss the English division violin’s background and transition from a largely oral to a predominantly literate tradition. I demonstrate this change in transmission, composition, and performance practices through examining the second and sixth editions of John Playford’s The Division Violin (1684).

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Yaya, Isabel History &amp Philosophy Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "The two faces of Incan history: Unravelling dual representations in oral traditions of pre-Hispanic Cuzco". Publisher:University of New South Wales. History & Philosophy, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43333.

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This dissertation examines the historical traditions and ritual representations of Incan society through the conceptual framework of dual organization. Broadly defined as the division of society into opposed halves, dual organization has been an enduring pattern of social classification in South America. In Pre-Hispanic times, it characterised the social and spatial organization of Cuzco -- the imperial capital of Tawantinsuyu -- which was divided into two asymmetric moieties, Hanan and Urin, composed of several elite factions. Analysis of this system has been hitherto restricted to a branch of ethnohistory informed by structural and cultural anthropology. Very few works have yet investigated the dynamics that linked dualism with the shaping of an historical consciousness proper to the pre-Hispanic ruling elite. The present thesis offers to fill this lacuna in modern scholarship by reassessing Incan narratives in the light of moiety division. In doing so, it identifies the traits proper to two distinctive bodies of Incan traditions, each of which encloses a particular, and mutually conflicting, representation of the past reflecting the moieties' respective perspectives. Such an approach not only harmonizes many discrepancies affecting primary sources on Incan society, but also enables a re-examination of other forms of dualist representation in Incan religion. Three case studies are therefore considered through this methodological approach: the structure of Incan cosmology, the seasonal division of the metropolitan calendar, and the ritual expressions of social antagonisms. The first case study suggests that Incan religion was divided into two sub-cults headed by divinities that were complementary in overseeing water regulation throughout the annual cycle. The second case study shows that the dual division of yearly activities did not coincide sensu stricto with the temporal setting of the Andean meteorological seasons, but rather followed a time framework guided by communal activities and astronomical knowledge. The last case study reveals that the formal model of the conical clan not only clarifies the underlying structure of Incan descent, but also enlightens the triggering mechanisms of Incan succession wars and moiety conflicts. The outcome of this work decolonizes the Andean past by refining our understanding of historical representations in pre-colonial societies.

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Hart, Elisa. "Getting started in oral traditions research, a case study in applied anthropology in the Northwest Territories". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32924.pdf.

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Prendergast-Tarena, Eruera Tarena. "He Atua, He Tipua, He Takata Rānei: The Dynamics of Change in South Island Māori Oral Traditions". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Te Aotahi: Maori and Indigenous Studies, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1976.

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The aim of this thesis is to undertake a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of change in pre-Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe oral traditions of Te Waipounamu to gain a deeper understanding of their nature, function, evolution and meaning. For the purposes of this thesis a framework will be established to classify changes to encompass different types of alterations made pre-contact and post-contact to authentic and un-authentic oral traditions. This model will analyse the continuum of change and will be applied in later chapters to pre-Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe traditions to gain an understanding of the dynamics, evolution and construction of the oral traditions of Te Waipounamu. This study of the morphology of tradition will demonstrate they were never fixed but evolved alongside their communities as they adapted to ensure tribal identity and mana was firmly entrenched in their local landscape. A major component of this thesis will be analysis of Waitaha traditions centring upon three key questions; firstly who were Waitaha peoples, secondly, where were they from, and thirdly, were they, and do they continue to be separate social units? This thesis will contribute to this discussion by analysing literature concerning pre-Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe tribal identities to ascertain not just who they were and where they were from but how their identities have been constructed and modified over time. Analysis will examine the role of oral tradition in establishing tribal identity and how Waitaha traditions were changed both pre and post-contact to suit the cultural, political and ideological imperatives of the time, providing an insight into how our ancestors perceived, recollected and constructed the past to suit the needs of the present.

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Madlala, Ntokoza. "Kwasukasukela : a practical exploration of Nguni oral storytelling traditions on contemporary physical forms of storytelling for theatre". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13898.

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Bibliography: leaves 34-35.
The present study is a written explication of the production Kwasukasukela created and staged by the author in September 2001. The production involved a practical exploration of the impact of the Nguni storytelling tradition on contemporary physical form of storytelling for theatre. In the introduction, the terms of the study: the Nguni storytelling tradition and contemporary physical forms of storytelling, are defined. The theoretical proposal is then laid out, followed by a performance historical context for the study focusing on the works of Herbert Dhlomo, Mbongeni Ngema and Gcina Mhlophe. The final section provides a discussion of the creative methods employed and the discoveries made through the process of creating and staging Kwasukasukela. The study concludes that the bringing together of the Nguni storytelling tradition and contemporary physical forms of storytelling, in the context of a theatrical production, causes changes in both forms, giving rise to a hybrid third form which provides opportunities for the creation of new subject position in theatre practice in South Africa for more critical representations of identity and history.

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Estrada, Gabriel S. "In nahui ollin, a cycle of four indigenous movements: Mexican Indian rights, oral traditions, sexualities, and new media". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280008.

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Pre-existing more hegemonic theories of Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies, Media Arts, and Queer Studies, Nahuatl cosmologies offers an evolving political grounding for Native scholars. A Nahuatl cosmology of four directions represents a circle of masculinity, elders, femininity, and youth and forms the epistemology by which one can view Nahuatl and Xicana/o culture. In the east, Indigenous Rights directly relate to the hegemonic oppressions such as war, prison, and heterosexism that many Indigenous men face. Indigenous peoples fight those hegemonies with international legal concepts and through expressing their different epistemologies. In the north, the Caxcan oral tradition of my family contrasts with the homophobic and genocidal narratives more common in Chicano histories. I show how contemporary writers can rely more upon oral traditions and revisions to colonial records for their historical treatments of Indigenous peoples. To the west, postmodernism and feminism offer partial but incomplete analysis of Nahuatl cultures that Nahuatl women articulate in their own literatures and cosmological relations. In particular, Leslie Silko's stories are more than capable of critiquing postmodernism and ethnography, including those that describe Raramuri peoples. To the south, I demonstrate that gay Nahuatl and Xicano men can embody the social Malinche in keeping with Nahuatl beliefs. I use the idea of the gay social Malinche to critique Troyano's film, Latin Boys Go to Hell. Alternative internet sources tend to facilitate the ideas of the Social Malinche more. Together, all four movements comprise ollin, a social and cosmic movement that embraces different sexualities and generational changes in evolving aspects of dynamic social movements. Interweaving Western thought into the basic cosmology of Indigenous peoples, two-spirit social Malinches can open a path to political and social movement to improve their various relations.

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Shepherd, Eric Todd. "A pedagogy of storytelling based on Chinese storytelling traditions". The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180552747.

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Gordon-Burns, Diane. "“ ... AND DID SHE CRY IN MĀORI?” Recovering, reassembling and restorying Tainui ancestresses in Aotearoa New Zealand". Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9977.

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This thesis examines and reveals pre-colonial and colonial organisation of oral traditions, attitudes and positions in relation to significant Tainui ancestresses. Mana wahine, womanist, Kaupapa Māori and Indigenous autoethnography are key theories and methodologies that I have used to reclaim, rediscover and retell their herstories. This approach allows for the contexualisation of Tainui women based on Māori cultural values and practices. The women examined are Whakaotirangi, Marama, Ruapūtahanga and Rehe Hekina Kenehuru. The information that informs this thesis is from textual sources including those from the chiefly narrated accounts, publications, newspapers and manuscripts. This thesis is a challenge to patriarchal understandings and interpretations of female inferiority in ancient practices, including karakia and whakapapa rites. I argue that the study of ancient karakia, whakataukī and tradition reveals that Māori women held a place of the highest regard and at times exerted power of a stronger force than their male counterparts: only the women’s voice could whakatika certain events. Tainui women were crucial representatives between the earthly and the spiritual domains. Significantly, I have ‘restoryed’ the ancestresses, the effect being to reclaim a powerful place for women in Māori societies in contemporary times.

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Hopkins, Maren P. "A Storied Land: Tiyo and the Epic Journey down the Colorado River". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222850.

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This thesis evaluates one Hopi oral tradition-Tiyo, the boy from Tokonavi-as a meaningful geographic discourse that reveals a landscape extending from the American Southwest to Mesoamerica and beyond. Hopi's understanding of their past and the significance of the land have evolved within larger struggles between Western and Native American views of time, space, and history. Instead of a static cartographic rendering, the story of Tiyo presents the land as a dynamic entity differentiated through religious and social relations. Theories of place making and materiality help validate a space coterminous with Hopi history and religion, and support a multi-vocal approach to the land. This work has implications for anthropological scholarship, and for the process of decolonizing dominant understandings of Hopi culture. It is equally relevant for historic preservation, indigenous sovereignty, and land claims. Most importantly, this research can assist the Hopi people in communicating cultural knowledge to future generations.

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Erapu, Laban Omella. "A study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later novels to assess his adaptation of dramatic techniques and Gikuyu oral traditions to the requirements of fiction". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002278.

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This thesis examines Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later writings in order to establish the nature of his quest for a people's literature. It illustrates how the author attempts to break the barriers between traditional oral forms and the relatively new written forms in addressing a basically "illiterate" audience. The research begins with an exploration of Gikuyu oral literature as an essential background to Ngugi's later dramatic and fictional writings as distinct from his earlier literary works in which he initiates the dominant quest for a more just society. Ngugi's return to these roots constitutes the central "homecoming" that characterizes his search for new forms. The analysis is conducted through three significant chronological stages representing Ngugi's writings over a period of about a decade from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Each stage starts with a play and performance followed by a parallel novel, the first pair written in English and the subsequent ones in Gikuyu. The three stages - designated Transition, Homecoming and Realization - mark Ngugi's involvement in the promotion of Gikuyu culture and orature, both as a source of inspiration and as a cause to which he fully dedicates himself. The transitional stage depicts the convergence between conventional and traditional oral literary forms with which Ngugi begins to experiment. The second stage introduces significant departures as Ngugi begins to use the Gikuyu language as his primary medium of creative expression. The final stage demonstrates his ultimate assertion of the primacy of orality over the written word as a dynamic agent of transmission. The thesis concludes that Ngugi wa Thiong'o in these later works - while leaving the possibilities of his vision of a "New Earth" unfulfilled pioneers the African writers' climb down from an "ivory tower" to deal with the realities of the experience of the predominantly non-reading African masses, acknowledged as both recipients of and active participants in the relatively new written literature which purports to speak for their experiences and their times.

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Anderson, Danica. "The Use of Oral Memory Traditions Embedded in Somatic Psychology Practices by South Slavic Female Survivors of War and War Crimes". Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643903.

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Interdisciplinary war trauma research suggests wars involving ethnic cleansing have debilitating and serious impacts on the physical and mental health of survivors. There has been a lack of focus on female-specific victimization, although female-driven cultural practices are altered as a result of traumatization. The South Slavic female survivors of the Balkan War partake in extensive cultural practices that have been shaped by their experiences of trauma. The current study used a qualitative approach to understand how women's traumatic experiences are manifested in and ameliorated by their oral memory traditions, or the cultural practice of sharing transgenerational information. Specifically, data from psychosomatic clinical sessions spanning a ten-year period were analyzed to identify how the somatic practice of the Kolo, or the round dance or sharing of information in a circle, has provided the women an outlet for their cultural expression and healing. Results are discussed in terms of psychosomatic themes that help us understand the effects of trauma.

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Guemona, Djimet. "La paléo-métallurgie dans la région du Guéra (centre du Tchad) : inventaire des sites et essai de caractérisation des traditions sidérurgiques". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Toulouse 2, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020TOU20084.

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Située au sud-est du bassin du lac Tchad, le Guéra n’a jusqu’à présent bénéficié d’aucun travail de recherche archéologique. Pourtant, cette région possède un riche patrimoine métallurgique. Croisant informations orales et données archéologiques, la présente étude est une contribution à l'histoire de la production ancienne du fer. À cette fin, nous cherchons à déterminer les impacts techniques, économiques et humains de cette activité. Pour bien conduire cette étude, nos interrogations se sont portées sur l’identité des métallurgistes qui ont travaillé le fer dans cette région, leurs parcours migrations et leur mise en place dans le Guéra. Nous avons également essayé de décrire et de caractériser les techniques de réduction mise en place, de quantifier le volume de production des déchets métallurgiques et de dater la sidérurgie dans le Guéra
Located in the south-east of the Lake Chad basin, the Guéra region has so far not benefited from any archaeological research work. However, this region has a rich metallurgical heritage. Combining oral information and archaeological data, this study is a contribution to the history of ancient iron production. To this end, we seek to determine the technical, economic and human impacts of this activity. In order to conduct this study properly, our questions focused on the identity of the metallurgists who worked iron in this region, their migration paths and their settlement in the Guéra. We also tried to describe and characterize the smelting techniques that were used, to quantify the volume of metallurgical waste, and to date the metallurgy of iron in the Guéra

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Lee, Michelle. "Te whatu o poutini a visual art exploration of new media storytelling, 2007". Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/419.

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This visual art project has explored the ancient Maori pukorero (oral tradition) of Te Whatu o Poutini (The Eye of Poutini) that articulates the journey of Poutini Taniwha, Waitaiki and Tamaahua from Tuhua (Mayor Island) in the Bay of Plenty, to the Arahura River. An oral geological map, the pukorero also expresses through cultural values, the intimate spiritual relationship Ngati Waewae have with our tupuna, the Arahura River, pounamu stone and each other. Exploring the genres of digital storytelling and video art installation, this project combines them as new media storytelling. The current experience of colonisation and urbanisation emotionally parallel the abduction, transformation and multiple places of belonging experienced by the tupuna Waitaiki at the hand of Poutini Taniwha. The project explores and acknowledges this connection. The survival, restoration and celebration of Ngati Waewae culture and the need to assert control of our own destinies has infused every component of the project.

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Gutjahr, Eva. "Entre tradições orais e registros da oralidade indígena". Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-04052009-155701/.

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Esta pesquisa se interroga sobre articulações entre características próprias a tradições orais e experiências de registro de enunciados orais indígenas a partir de dois casos, de escalas distintas: Xavante, habitando a aldeia de Pimentel Barbosa no Brasil Central, e Kanak, habitando as ilhas da Nova Caledônia na Melanésia. Internamente a cada caso, propus o estabelecimento de relações ou rizomas de modo a identificar efeitos que experiências e produtos de registro de enunciados orais produziram junto a seus atores, efeitos este que qualifico como de proliferação, rechaço, ou descaso. Ao pautar minha análise nos modos de interação mediados através do discurso segundo modalidades consideradas adequadas por aquelas populações em contextos específicos, busquei refletir acerca dos modos como vêm assumir sua tradição enunciada em situações de oficialização e institucionalização de patrimônios e identidades, assim como identificar modos com registros são empregados por tais populações segundo formas de criatividade próprias e inovadoras. Meu objetivo foi uma reflexão crítica, a partir de dois casos tornados aqui comparáveis, concernindo as atuais políticas do patrimônio imaterial pautadas em ações de valorização e salvaguarda de tradições orais de populações indígenas.
This study focus on the relationships between oral traditions, and products and events related to the documentation of indigenous oral sayings from the starting point of two case-studies of different scales: Xavante, from the Pimentel Barbosa village in Central Brazil, and Kanak, from the islands of New Caledonia, in Melanesia. For each of this cases I intended the search for relations or rhizomes, in order to identify effects that documentation of oral statements, narratives and sayings produced in the point of view of their very actors. I call such effects proliferation, resistance or indifference. Basing my analysis in expressive and discourse-mediated interaction as considered adequate by these populations in specific contexts, I wished to reflect on traditions as announced, in situations that demand the institutionalization of patrimonies and identities, as well as identify ways that documentation practices and products are invested by these people according to their own dynamic forms of creativity and innovation. My objective was to establish, through making these two cases comparables, a critical reflection on the contemporary intangible cultural heritage policies based on the safeguarding of oral traditions and expressions of indigenous people.

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Obsieh, Moussa Souleiman. "L'oralité dans la littérature de la Corne de l'Afrique : traditions orales, formes et mythologies de la littérature pastorale, marques de l'oralité dans la littérature". Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL016/document.

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La Corne de l’Afrique comme le reste du continent noir possède une littérature orale traditionnelle riche et variée, qui va de la mythologie pastorale à la poésie en passant par la légende et le conte. Avec les bouleversements sociaux intervenus avec l’arrivée des colons européens et l’introduction de l’écriture, la chaîne de transmission de la tradition orale est menacée. De nombreux Européens ont cherché à décrire les us et coutumes de ces populations. D’autre part, les écrivains de la Corne de l’Afrique s’inspirent souvent de l’oralité en lui octroyant ainsi une nouvelle virginité. Le présent travail de recherche s’efforce de rendre compte des formes traditionnelles de l’oralité et de leur impact sur la littérature moderne
The Horn of Africa has a traditional oral literature which is rich and varied as the rest of the continent, starting from pastoral mythology to poetry, legend and storytelling. But with the social upheaval which occurred with the arrival of European settlers and the introduction of writing, the chain of transmission of the oral tradition is threatened. Many Europeans have sought to describe the habits and customs of these people. Whereas on the other hand, the writers from the Horn of Africa are often inspired by giving it (orality) and a new way of doing it. The following research work strives to reflect traditional forms of orality and their impact on modern literature

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Clarkson, Rebecca. "Singing With the New Order Amish: How Their Current Musical Practices Reflect Their Culture and History". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1352993454.

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Gromov, Mikhail D. "East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions. Ed. by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011, 513 pp. ISBN 978-3-8325-2816-4". Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107482.

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Holm, Andrea Hernandez y Andrea Hernandez Holm. "Floating Borderlands: Chicanas and Mexicanas Moving Knowledge in the Borderlands". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620872.

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As intolerance against Mexican Americans and Mexican migrants persists in the United States-- apparent in the passage of Arizona State Bill 1070, Arizona House Bill 2281, and multiple English-only laws-- Chicanas and Mexicanas continue to resist by sustaining relationships and knowledge through storytelling. This dissertation employs a floating borderlands framework to explore how Chicanas and Mexicanas in the United States-Mexico borderlands use storytelling in oral and written traditions to keep cultural and regional knowledge. Floating borderlands is an interdisciplinary framework that reveals survivance, that is, survival as an act of resistance, through cultural maintenance, agency, and creativity in lived experiences. Drawing upon concepts and research from disciplines that include Mexican American Studies, American Indian Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Education, floating borderlands reveals how storytelling helps Chicanas and Mexicanas maintain an understanding of home and homelands that facilitates resistance to obstacles such as racial and gender discrimination and challenges to their right to be in these spaces. This dissertation acknowledges multiple forms of knowledge keeping by Chicanas and Mexicanas throughout the last two centuries; recognizes intersectionality; and complicates or creates multiple layers in narratives of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This project is directly informed by narratives of Chicana and Mexicana life in the borderlands. It centers oral and written traditions, including my original poetry. Key words: Chicanas, Mexicanas, border, borderlands, floating borderlands, survivance, oral traditions, written traditions, home, homelands, migration, identity, cultural maintenance, poetry, story.

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Musandu, Phoebe A. "Daughter of Odoro Grace Onyango and African women's history /". Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1152280364.

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Andersson, Josefina. "Bildstenarna och den muntliga traditionen på Gotland under yngre järnålder". Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2122.

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Andersson, J. 2008. Bildstenarna och den muntliga traditionen på Gotland under yngre järnålder. The Picture Stones and the Oral Tradition of Gotland During the Late Iron Age. Högskolan i Kalmar ht 2008.

This is a study of the picture stones of Gotland and the oral tradition connected to them. This study consists of two main parts; in the main part the discussion focus on the oral tradition and the continuity of the same, where the memory plays a significant role. It also contains a discussion of the physical environment and its influences of the oral tradition. The second part concentrates around the picture stones, the variation of the scenes and the numerous of them.

Keywords: oral traditions, picture stones, late iron age, Gotland, Nordic mythology.

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Medica, Hazra C. "The influence of anxiety : re-presentations of identity in Antiguan literature from 1890 to the present". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9aa4fdc-35f8-4ccc-b4bb-b46dc45cb52e.

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This thesis examines Antiguan narratives’ peculiar engagements with the national question. It draws largely upon the works of four writers—Jamaica Kincaid, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Marie-Elena John and Frieda Cassin—and selected calypsonians including Antigua’s leading female and male calypsonians, Queen Ivena and King Short Shirt. It reads anxiety as the chief organising principle of the singular deconstructions of gender, ‘racial’, ethnic, and class identities undertaken by these texts. I offer a retooled account of anxiety that elaborates the local/regional concept of bad-mindedness informing the core of the narratives’ deconstructive and recuperative projects. Chapter one probes the bad-minded delimiting of Antiguan literary production. It interrogates the singular cohesive Caribbean canon typically suggested by critical readings, which obscure the narratives/ literary traditions of smaller territories such as Antigua. It also highlights locally produced canons’ intervention into the dominant canons/maps of Caribbean literary traditions. Its discussion is underpinned by the concept of bad-mindedness which I use to frame the evils that locate the smaller territory and its inhabitants at the cultural periphery. Chapter two examines the texts’ enunciations of the bad-mindedness inherent in the construction of the composite gendered identities of 19^th century Creole women, 20^th century working-class Afro-Antiguan women and men, and 20^th century proletarian Carib women. It refashions Erna Brodber’s kumbla trope, Kenneth Ramchand’s notion of terrified consciousness, and Jamaica Kincaid’s line trope to elaborate these enunciations. Chapter three examines Antiguan calypsos’ record of the peculiar responses of small-islanders to their subordinate position within the ‘global village’ and continuing entanglement in British colonialism and neo-colonial relationships and processes. It draws upon Charles Mill’s theory of smadditization/ smadditizin’ or the Afro-Caribbean struggle for recognition of personhood and Paget Henry’s account of the dependency theory to analyse the calypsos’ anxious insistence upon Afro-Antiguan personhood. The primary conclusion of my thesis is that an engagement with the neglected literary traditions of the smaller territories and national literatures on the whole, is likely to excavate a cornucopia of currently sidelined experiences, issues, and transnational relationships which can only serve to enrich our postcolonial conversations.

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Byrd, Gayle. "The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/258606.

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The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman My dissertation examines early Native American and African American oral trickster tales and shows how the pioneering authors Zitkala-Sa (Lakota) and Charles W. Chesnutt (African American) drew on them to provide the basis for a written literature that critiqued the political and social oppression their peoples were experiencing. The dissertation comprises 5 chapters. Chapter 1 defines the meaning and role of the oral trickster figure in Native American and African American folklore. It also explains how my participation in the Native American and African American communities as a long-time storyteller and as a trained academic combine to allow me to discern the hidden messages contained in Native American and African American oral and written trickster literature. Chapter 2 pinpoints what is distinctive about the Native American oral tradition, provides examples of trickster tales, explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding, and discusses the challenges of translating the oral tradition into print. The chapter also includes an analysis of Jane Schoolcraft's short story "Mishosha" (1827). Chapter 3 focuses on Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends (1901) and American Indian Stories (1921). In the legends and stories, Zitkala-Sa is able to preserve much of the mystical, magical, supernatural, and mythical quality of the original oral trickster tradition. She also uses the oral trickster tradition to describe and critique her particular nineteenth-century situation, the larger historical, cultural, and political context of the Sioux Nation, and Native American oppression under the United States government. Chapter 4 examines the African American oral tradition, provides examples of African and African American trickster tales, and explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding. The chapter ends with close readings of the trickster tale elements embedded in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America (serialized 1859 - 1862). Chapter 5 shows how Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman rests upon African-derived oral trickster myths, legends, and folklore preserved in enslavement culture. Throughout the Conjure tales, Chesnutt uses the supernatural as a metaphor for enslaved people's resistance, survival skills and methods, and for leveling the ground upon which Blacks and Whites struggled within the confines of the enslavement and post-Reconstruction South. Native American and African American oral and written trickster tales give voice to their authors' concerns about the social and political quality of life for themselves and for members of their communities. My dissertation allows these voices a forum from which to "speak."
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Wanjema, Richard Wachira. "INTERACTIVE MEDIA and CULTURAL HERITAGE: Interpreting Oral Culture in a Digital Environment". The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343405232.

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Mouanda, Merril Rosthand. "Valorisation du patrimoine des peuples autochtones du Congo Brazzaville : proposition d’un centre d’interprétation pour la promotion des traditions orales de l’ethnie Aka". Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/30749.

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Ce mémoire est une contribution à la valorisation des traditions orales du peuple autochtone Aka du Congo Brazzaville. Ce peuple « minoritaire », possède une tradition culturelle orale riche et diversifiée, caractérisée par les savoirs ancestraux, les danses, les chants etc… Mais, de nos jours leur patrimoine immatériel est en train de disparaitre à cause des violations des droits de l’Homme, de l’absence d’une politique culturelle, du manque des structures culturelles et par des effets néfastes de la déforestation. Ce présent travail, propose donc l’implantation d’un centre d’interprétation sur le territoire Aka, pour assurer la préservation, la promotion et la transmission de cette culture aux publics cibles et aux générations futures. Cela permettra de perpétuer cette culture qui est susceptible de contribuer au développement du tourisme culturel responsable dans la localité Aka. Dans ce travail, il sera aussi question de mener une réflexion sur la protection des forêts tropicales du Bassin du Congo qui sont importante pour le mode de vie du peuple Aka. Le peuple Aka appelle ce territoire de vie « Ndima », qui signifie forêt en langue aka; Abstract This thesis is a contribution to the valorization of the oral traditions of the indigenous Aka people of Congo Brazzaville. This "minority" people has a rich and diversified oral cultural tradition, characterized by ancestral knowledge, dances, songs, etc. But nowadays their intangible heritage is disappearing because of human rights violations, the absence of a cultural policy, the lack of cultural structures and by the harmful effects of deforestation. This work proposes the establishment of an interpretation center in the Aka territory to ensure the preservation, promotion and transmission of this culture to the target audience and future generations. This will allow the perpetuation of this culture which is likely to contribute to the development of responsible cultural tourism in the Aka locality. In this work, it will also be a question of carrying out a reflection on the protection of the tropical forests of the Congo Basin which are important for the way of life of the Aka people; Resumo: Abstract This thesis is a contribution to the valorization of the oral traditions of the indigenous Aka people of Congo Brazzaville. This "minority" people has a rich and diversified oral cultural tradition, characterized by ancestral knowledge, dances, songs, etc. But nowadays their intangible heritage is disappearing because of human rights violations, the absence of a cultural policy, the lack of cultural structures and by the harmful effects of deforestation. This work proposes the establishment of an interpretation center in the Aka territory to ensure the preservation, promotion and transmission of this culture to the target audience and future generations. This will allow the perpetuation of this culture which is likely to contribute to the development of responsible cultural tourism in the Aka locality. In this work, it will also be a question of carrying out a reflection on the protection of the tropical forests of the Congo Basin which are important for the way of life of the Aka people - Esta tese é uma contribuição para a valorização das tradições orais do povo indígena Aka do Congo Brazzaville. Este povo "minoritário" tem uma tradição cultural oral rica e diversificada, caracterizada por conhecimentos ancestrais, danças, canções, etc. Mas hoje em dia o seu património imaterial está a desaparecer devido às violações dos direitos humanos, à ausência de uma política cultural, à falta de estruturas culturais e aos efeitos nocivos da desflorestação. O presente trabalho propõe assim a criação de um centro de interpretação no território Aka, para assegurar a preservação, promoção e transmissão desta cultura ao público alvo e às gerações futuras. Isto permitirá a perpetuação desta cultura que é susceptível de contribuir para o desenvolvimento de um turismo cultural responsável na localidade Aka. Neste trabalho, será também uma questão de realizar uma reflexão sobre a protecção das florestas tropicais da Bacia do Congo que são importantes para o modo de vida do povo Aka.

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Mezop, Temgoua Alice Lucie. "Archéologie, traditions orales et ethnographie au nord du Cameroun: histoire du peuplement de la région du Faro durant le dernier millénaire". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209940.

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A la limite entre le Cameroun et le Nigéria, la région du Faro est une zone d’extraordinaire diversité, tant du point de vue des populations que de la topographie. Pas moins de 13 groupes ethnolinguistiques y sont documentés, qui appartiennent à 3 grands ensembles linguistiques et se répartissent dans la plaine et les montagnes. Les données de la linguistique indiquent que les représentants des langues adamaoua seraient présents dans la plaine de la Bénoué et du Faro depuis environ quatre mille ans. Au niveau de l'ethnohistoire, on sait que les habitants des plaines sous soumis à l’autorité des Foulbé depuis deux siècles. Mais au delà de cette période, de nombreuses zones d'ombre demeurent. L’histoire des populations de cette partie du bassin de la Bénoué avant le 19ème siècle semblait donc hors d’atteinte, car la région du Faro restait vierge du point de vue archéologique.

Dans ce travail, j’apporte par le biais d'une approche historique et comparative des éléments susceptible d’expliquer, d’une part la complexité qui caractérise le peuplement du Faro et, d’autre part, la façon dont le peuplement de cette région a évolué au cours du dernier millénaire. Il est également question de faire progresser la réflexion méthodologique, en évaluant la façon dont les modèles obtenus par l’archéologie peuvent être confrontés avec ceux qui se basent sur les traditions orales, les éléments de la culture matérielle actuelle et la linguistique.

L’étude des traditions orales a permis de classer par ordre chronologique les éléments historiques importants et d’établir une histoire du peuplement durant ces derniers siècles. Elle confirme qu’il est possible de reconnaître des racines remontant au delà du 19ème siècle à la plupart des groupes qui peuplent encore la région aujourd’hui, ainsi que de nombreuses ruptures dans l’histoire du peuplement du Faro. Contrairement aux travaux antérieurs, la plus importante de ces fractures date du début du 19ème siècle, avec l’occupation des conquérants foulbé, qui ont provoqué l’insécurité généralisée, la division de la région en deux et les plus importantes déportations de populations des plaines vers les montagnes refuges.

L’approche archéologique a permis d’établir la première séquence chrono-culturelle du Faro au cours du dernier millénaire. Si la présence d’un peuplement ancien dans la plaine était envisagée, l’étude archéologique apporte la preuve que des communautés humaines vivent dans le Faro depuis environ 1000 ans. A partir du 15ème siècle, des modifications surviennent. Celles-ci se manifestent surtout par l’apparition d’une nouvelle poterie ornée au Blepharis sp. Lorsque l’on compare la carte de distribution des sites associés à cette céramique, au trajet suivi par les Bata, qui remontent le cours du Faro en implantant des villages et à l’aire d’extension des langues tchadiques au Faro, il semble plausible que de nouvelles populations occupent la région vers le milieu du dernier millénaire de notre ère. Pour le 19ème siècle bien documenté par les traditions orales, les données archéologiques viennent renforcer l’idée d’une profonde rupture durant cette période.

En abordant l’histoire du peuplement du Faro, il était nécessaire d’examiner le concept de l’ethnicité comme il est classiquement employé dans la région. D’une manière générale, l’étude conforte l’idée qu’il est très difficile d’aborder la profondeur historique des identités des groupes actuels.

La confrontation entre les faits des cultures vivantes et les résultats archéologiques a permis d’évaluer les potentialités de raisonnements historique et comparatif. On ne peut que constater, dans cet exemple concret, le grand intérêt qu’il y a à fonder la reconstitution du passé sur de multiples sources.

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Pavlović, Aleksandar. "From traditional to transitional texts : Montenegrin oral tradition and Vuk Karadžić’s Narodne srpske pjesme". Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14346/.

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This thesis analyses the influence of literate culture on the corpus of Montenegrin oral epic songs published in Vuk Karadžić’s edition of Narodne srpske pjesme from 1823 to 1833. The Introduction places the research in the scholarly context of the Parry-Lord theory of oral composition, later analyses of transitional texts that contain both oral traditional and literary characteristics, and recent interest in the entire process of transcription, edition and publication of songs belonging to the oral tradition. This is followed by an outline of facts relevant to the social and political history of Montenegro, its epic tradition and earliest textual representation. The first chapter discusses in detail the concepts of oral traditional, transitional and nontraditional texts and offers a synthetic theoretical framework for the analysis of transitional South Slavonic oral songs, based on their phraseology, style, outlook and contextual evidences about their documentation and singers. In the second chapter, this is followed by a textual analysis of five genuine oral traditional Montenegrin songs from Karadžić’s collection and a discussion of their style, themes and overall perspective. In the third chapter, two songs about contemporary Montenegrin battles from the collection are analysed and identified as proper transitional texts; they contain a number of literary elements and were influenced by the Montenegrin ruler Bishop Petar I, but also retain to some extent the characteristics of traditional oral songs. The final chapter identifies nontraditional elements in the four songs that Karadžić wrote down from a literate Montenegrin singer Đuro Milutinović Crnogorac. It is argued that these songs combine a traditional style and outlook with elements distinct from local oral tradition, which the singer had adopted during his education and under the influence of Bishop Petar. The main conclusion of the thesis is that the earliest publication of Montenegrin oral tradition already contained a number of features of literary origin; two out of eleven songs are proper transitional texts, and four others display the influence of literate culture. These texts and features did not originate in the local oral tradition; rather, they were introduced by a literate singer close to the political leadership and then incorporated in the collection of oral traditional songs during the process of its literary documentation and representation. By revealing the complex socio-political framework giving rise to the early-nineteenth century collections of South Slavonic oral songs, this thesis makes a contribution to current research in the textualisation of the oral tradition, and provides a consistent model for the analysis of transitional texts in oral studies.

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Ancín, Itziar. "The Kabir Project. Bangalore and Mumbai (India)". Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23290.

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The Kabir Project (K.P.) was born in Bangalore, India, in 2002, after the Gujarat pogrom, which occurred in the same year. In the context of increasing divisions in Indian society, defined by religion, social class, caste and gender, this research explores how this initiative, through live concerts and documentary films, spreads the folk music traditions of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir along with his messages of unity and understanding between confronted identity groups. This study presents the context of violence between Muslims and Hindus since the Indian Partition and the reasons for gendered violence in the conflict. It focuses also on the connections between globalization and minorities’ prosecution in liberal democracies; on the colonial roots and socioeconomic reasons which led to the Gujarat massacre in 2002; and the social role of the mystic as bridging cultural and religious differences. Through two complementary methods: in-depth interviews to audiences and organizers at the K. P. festivals in Bangalore and survey questionnaires distributed to the Kabir Festival Mumbai audiences, this study tries to answer the following questions: What is the potential for social change of the K. P. in the world-views of today's Indian citizens? Are the messages presented by films and folk music capable of generating positive attitudes towards dialogue between confronted identity categories? In which ways?The research reveals the success of the K. P. to challenge audiences’ minds through communication for development events, whose objectives are reached by spreading Kabir values through artistic forms, and by creating shared spaces between confronted identity sections. Festivals in rural areas help to diminish the distance between those antagonized communities. In addition, urban festivals also generate positive attitudes in elites towards dialogue and coexistence, since that is the social profile of the audience.

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Saponov, Mikhail. "Musical Historiography and Oral Tradition". Bärenreiter Verlag, 2000. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36659.

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Reea, Goenda. "Le comique dans la tradition orale et la littérature contemporaine tahitiennes - vision du rire, vision du monde". Thesis, Polynésie française, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016POLF0005.

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À Tahiti, il n’existe aucune recherche sur les « mots du rire » en langue tahitienne démontrant une manière de penser le monde. L’intérêt de cette étude est de révéler une réalité d’un point de vue interne ainsi que des processus inconscients qui régissent le rire de et dans la société tahitienne. Cette thèse a pour objectif de définir la spécificité du comique de la tradition orale et de la littérature contemporaine tahitiennes au travers des ’ūtē ’ārearea (chants comiques traditionnels) dans le cadre des fêtes culturelles du mois de juillet à Tahiti de 1986 à 2014 et de deux pièces de théâtre, Te pe’ape’a hau ’ore o Pāpā Pēnū ’e Māmā Rōrō de Maco Tevane (1972, rejouée en 2011), et E’ita ïa, de John Mairai (1989). En inscrivant cette analyse dans un cadre conceptuel et méthodologique sémiolinguistique et psychocritique, nous supposons qu’il est possible d’abstraire, par la superposition des textes du corpus de recherche, un substrat constitué d’invariants, qui concourent à la production du sens
In Tahiti, no research has been done about “comic words” in Tahitian language, demonstrating a way to consider the world. The relevance of this study is to reveal a reality in an internal point of view as well as unconscious processes which govern the laughter of and in the Tahitian society. The purpose of the present Thesis is to define the characteristics of Comic in the Tahitian oral tradition and contemporary literature, through the 'ūtē 'ārearea (traditional funny songs), in the context of July’s cultural celebrations in Tahiti, from 1986 to 2014, and through two plays, "Te pe'ape'a hau 'ore o Pāpā Pēnū 'e o Māmā Rōrō" by Maco Tevane (1972, played again in 2011) and “E'ita ïa” by John Mairai (1989). Placing this analysis into a conceptual and methodological as well as a semiolinguistical and psychocritical frameworks, makes us suppose that it is possible to abstract, by the superposition of the texts from the corpus of research, a substratum made of invariables, which contribute to the meaning of words

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Sinclair-Reynolds, Emma. "(Re)writing Pathways : Oral Tradition, Written Tradition, and Identity Construction in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie". Thesis, Nouvelle Calédonie, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NCAL0066/document.

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Comment les traditions orales kanak pourraient-elles agir au-delà de leurs frontières habituelles et influencer les processus de construction identitaire dans la société néo-calédonienne contemporaine ? Notre travail explore les interactions entre la tradition orale kanak et la tradition écrite néocalédonienne, en examinant les textes de réécriture, ces lieux de rencontre entre traditions qui constituent un espace de patrimoine commun. Cette thèse retrace les chemins d’une histoire, Le Chef et le lézard (dont on trouve de multiples versions dans les différentes traditions orales kanak), dans la tradition écrite. Sont élucidés les contextes historiques, politiques et littéraires des processus de production de versions de l’histoire, afin de mettre en évidence les forces en oeuvre, et d’éclairer la manière dont les représentations qui y figurent pourraient participer aux processus de construction identitaire. Les outils conceptuels employés sont la « réécriture », la « vā » (l’espace relationnel océanien d’échange et de rencontre),ainsi que la littérature comme « outil de renforcement communautaire ». La contribution originale qu'apporte notre travail consiste en démontrant le degré et l’étendue de l’intégration d'une histoire kanak dans le polysystème littéraire néo-calédonien ; en soulignant le rôle actif joué par des acteurs kanak dans les processus de réécriture ; en créant une métaphore étendue géographique du paysage littéraire néo-calédonien ; en témoignant de la richesse des traditions orales et écrites de Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie ; et en constituant une passerelle entre les chercheurs/lecteurs non-francophones et la littérature néo-calédonienne
How might Kanak oral traditions move beyond their usual boundaries and influence identity construction processes in contemporary New Caledonian society? This thesis explores the interactions between Kanak oral tradition and New Caledonian written tradition, by examining the (re)writings that are places of encounter between these traditions, and thus constitute a space of shared heritage. This study traces the pathways taken by a story, Le Chef et le lézard, (a number of versions of which are found in different Kanak oral traditions), as it moves into and within written tradition. The historical, political, and literary contexts of the (re)writing processes that produce versions of Le Chef et le lézard are elucidated, to demonstrate the forces at work and shed light on how the representations that figure in the (re)writings might participate in identity construction processes. The conceptual tools used in the study include: rewriting; vā (the relational space of exchange and encounter found throughout Oceania); and literature as a means of building community. The original contribution of this thesis has been to demonstrate the degree and the extent of the integration of a Kanak story into the New Caledonian literary polysystem; to highlight the active role played by Kanak actors in the rewriting process; to develop anextended geographic metaphor for the New Caledonian literary landscape; to bear witness to the richness of oral and written traditions in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie; and to create a bridge between non-Francophone researchers/readers and New Caledonian literature (oral and written)

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Yamamoto, Kumiko. "The oral background of Persian Epics : storytelling and poetry /". Leiden : Brill, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38998044f.

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Cockell, James Edward. "Schenkerism and the Hungarian oral tradition". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/MQ34305.pdf.

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Zizz, John Thomas. "Oral communication and the psyche of an aural community, as seen in Acts 2:14-41". Johnson City, TN : Emmanuel School of Religion, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.062-0306.

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Zizz, John Thomas. "Oral communication and the psyche of an aural community, as seen in Acts 2:14-41". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0306.

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