Search results for "oral tradition"
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La kalimera di Lazzaro: Varianti testuali siculo-arbëreshe
2018
This kalimera forms part of an ancient pagan rite of agricultural fertility, which due to syncretism is conserved in the paraliturgical practices still existing in the Arbëresh communities in southern Italy.Belonging to the cycle of commemoration of the dead, Lazarus’ Saturday is the second of the four Saturdays (the first is that of the carnival – in Alb. E shtuna e shpirtravet), during which participants sing the ballad of Constantine and Doruntina; the second Saturday, as mentioned, is that of the Resurrection of Lazarus, featuring liturgical hymns known as the hymns of the Holy Week; the third is the Saturday on the Easter’s Eve when the bells were untied; the fourth Saturday is that of…
Cuentos de fantasmas. Persistencia espectral de los centros de detención y tortura chilenos
2020
Los centros de detención y tortura de la dictadura chilena han desaparecido o están desapareciendo. Con ello, las memorias de dichos lugares parecen asimismo perderse. Sostendremos aquí, no obstante, que la desaparición física de los lugares no implica la pérdida de todo rastro, puesto que su recuerdo subsiste a través de otros medios, como la tradición oral. Exploramos, en particular, la posibilidad de que sean los relatos de actividad sobrenatural, los así llamados “cuentos de fantasmas”, los que sirvan de escenario público de la memoria social, permitiendo que esta sea convocada.
Rumiando realias y otros intraducibles del léxico geográfico oral del Sáhara Occidental
2016
Resumen La esencia de este trabajo son las palabras que vamos a tratar de abordar y dilucidar en el ambito de un contexto muy concreto y limitado geografica y culturalmente: expresiones y denominaciones pertenecientes a la lengua hassania, variante arabe hablada en el Sahara Occidental, referidas a la geografia y al relieve de dicho territorio. Por lo tanto, se trata de un lexico especifico perteneciente a la tradicion oral del pueblo saharaui y que ha ido pasando de generacion en generacion, acumulando, con el correr de los anos, datos, matices y connotaciones que no debemos ignorar a la hora de nombrar o citar cualquier duna, pozo o acacia de cualquier rincon perdido del desierto. Son los…
Of Moor's Heads and Other Sicilian Decorations
2017
Mustan auringon paketti
2015
Black Sun Package. Myths and Melancholy in Irene Larsen’s Collection Sortsolsafari In this article, I analyse how the Sami poet Irene Larsen rewrites Sami oral tradition and mythology in her collection Sortsolsafari (2013, “Black Sun Safari”). I discuss how Larsen’s work differs from the mainstream of contemporary Sami poetry and other indigenous literatures. Sortsolsafari has postmodernist features, which seldom are found in Sami literature. Larsen situates mythological elements in present-day reality: a Sami goddess uses a sewing machine and a shaman logs on to the Internet. These anachronisms create a comical effect. Instead of nostalgia and anti-colonialism, which traditionally characte…
The Concept of Story and Theological Discourse
1976
Biblical scholars and theologians have sometimes suggested that the concept of story or narration may be used to avoid or even resolve certain long-standing problems in theology. The context of such a suggestion appears to be not only the gradual filtering of ideas from the social sciences into theological awareness but also a much improved understanding of the nature and transmission of the biblical traditions. For instance, literary criticism had tried to tell the story of the making of the Bible as a story of writing and editing. With its analytic interest, form criticism penetrated deeper, concentrating on the crucial role of oral tradition and on the power of communities to shape certa…
Orality in the literature of Africa's Horn : oral traditions, forms and pastoral mythologies literature, marks of orality in the literature
2012
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.
The Brain, Memory, and Oral Tradition in Music
2009
Recent studies of the brain in various subfields have shown that memory is really a type of re-creation—piecing together many elements stored separately. Memory, creativity and their connections have been focal points in cognitive studies of music, but seldom have they been approached from the vantage point of music in oral tradition, which is the primary mode of transmitting music in the world. This paper argues that the oral transmission of music provides a fertile ground for learning about memory and creativity and their connections. Traditional musicians often know hundreds of tunes and are ready to perform them at a moment’s notice—but seldom in exactly the same way. Depending upon the…
La Literatura de tradició oral europea: una proposta de treball col·laboratiu
2013
La proposta es fonamenta en el treball col·laboratiu entre estudiants universitaris valencians i eslovacs en una investigació conjunta sobre els relats de tradició oral europeus, que contribuirà al desenvolupament de diverses competències socials, artístiques i culturals, i de la competència comunicativa en anglès. Pretenem així mateix utilitzar diversos dispositius tecnològics i xarxes socials, i iniciar un debat sobre la pertinència d'aquest tipus de treball col·laboratiu i sobre la seua efectivitat
Saying the Saffu and Beating the Law: The Changing Role of Sacred Sites in the Oromo Politico-Juridical System
2013
This chapter presents a semiotic analysis of the role of sacred sites and other physical features and objects in key political/religious rituals of the Oromo people living in the Horn of Africa. Theoretically, it builds on Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of the concept of ‘archive’ as an intersection of the topological and the nomological of the place and the law. For Derrida, the place of the archive is not a locatable place, but a topos, the marking of a discourse. In contrast to the European tradition based primarily on archives inscribed in writing and summarised in a codified law, for the traditional Oromo society, laws were part of the oral tradition – a mixture of religion, law and …