Towards Preserving Indigenous Oral Stories Using Tangible Objects

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith ◽  
Lizette Reitsma ◽  
Elise van den Hoven ◽  
Paula Kotze ◽  
Louis Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Oral Stories

Form and Tradition Criticism

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-207
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Dozeman
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Issues ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Form Criticism ◽  
Oral Stories

This chapter traces the influence of the history of religions school on the interpretation of the Pentateuch in two important areas of research: (1) the identification of individual oral stories in form criticism; and (2) the attempt to trace the formation of oral stories into larger collections in tradition history. It also discusses the main methodological issues raised by the various approaches surveyed in this chapter.

The Temple Holiday Prokopy Day in Bolshelug Village of the Komi Republic Over Time (Based on Records of the Beginning of the 21st Century)

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Алексей Николаевич Рассыхаев
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Oral Stories

В работе на основе полевых материалов начала XXI в. дана характеристика особенностей восприятия храмового праздника - Прокопьева дня (21 июля) в с. Большелуг Республики Коми. В устных рассказах информантов 1920-1960-х гг. наблюдается вариативность в его праздновании. Разнообразятся высказывания относительно количества дней празднования храмового праздника (от двух до четырех), даты начала и конца (от 19 до 24 июля), а также очередности гостевания в селе и ближайших деревнях. В условиях отсутствия достоверной информации о практике празднования Прокопьева дня, сложившейся в селе до 1930-х гг., происходит попытка «приватизировать» престольный праздник и начинают функционировать фольклорные рассказы о некогда обычной практике. Став главным общесельским праздником, Прокопьев день начинает притягивать различные ритуальные практики и обычаи (приметы, запреты и предписания). Данная ситуация развивается на фоне того, что в Большелуге церковь освящена во имя Свт. Николая, чудотворца и архиепископа Мир Ликийских, однако Николин день фольклорной традицией остается практически незамеченным. This paper is based on field materials from the beginning of the 21st century and describes the peculiarities of perception of the temple holiday (khramovoi or prestol’nyi prazdnik) - Prokopy Day (July 21) in the village of Bolshelug in the Komi Republic. Compared to oral stories of the 1920s and 1960s, there are variations in its later celebration. Various statements are made regarding the number of days the holiday is celebrated (from July 19 to 24), as well as the order of visiting in the village and in nearby villages. In the absence of reliable information about the practice of celebrating Prokopy Day which had been established in the village by the 1930s, attempts were made to “privatize” the feast day and to put into practice folkloric descriptions of the once common ritual. Having become the main village holiday, Prokopy Day also began to incorporate various new ritual practices and customs (omens, prohibitions and prescriptions). This process developed against the background of the fact that in Bolshelug the church was consecrated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Archbishop of Myra, although St. Nicholas Day folklore has remained mostly overlooked.

scholarly journals Funeral Folklore-Ethnographic Complex as a Ritual Text (On Example of the Local Erzya-Mordovian Tradition of Siberian Existence)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-219
Author(s):  
N. V. Leonova ◽  
P. S. Shakhov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Analytical Description ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Funeral Ritual ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ritual Text ◽  
Oral Stories

Within the framework of popular Orthodoxy in the 20 th century, there were and still exist types of funeral and memorial practices, in which Church and folksy elements are fused. The analytical description of the funerary folklore-ethnographic complex proposed in the article is based on field records in the Erzya-Mordovian villages of the Zalesovsky district of the Altai territory in the period from 2008 to 2017. The characteristic of the local ritual tradition is presented based on the analysis of a large array of oral stories of participants of the ritual. These oral sources are evidence that allows get an idea about the opinions of informants, carriers of the tradition about death, sin, moral norms and ritual rules, about the general principles of the funeral rite, its structure, and the actional, personal, spatial, temporal, subject, verbal and musical components of the complex. As a result of the research, the authors come to the conclusion that the local funeral ritual can be considered as a single multi-layered text, in which different types of cultural models are organically combined and interact: archaic folk and Christian, oral and written.

MEMORIAL CULTURE AND ORAL STORIES ABOUT RELOCATION FROM FLOOD ZONES

2021 ◽  
Vol 158 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-471
Author(s):  
Iryna KOVAL-FUCHYLO
Keyword(s):  
Oral Stories

NARRATIVE TOPIC IN ORAL STORIES BY PRESCHOOLERS AND YOUNGER SCHOOLERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (99) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
POLINA M. EISMONT
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
School Age ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Text Organization ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Oral Stories

A narrative topic is a means of the communicative text organization, expressed by adverbs of place or time, that are located at the beginning of an utterance and do not carry any communicative function within the information structure of the utterance itself. An experimental study of oral unprepared stories produced by children of senior preschool and primary school age has shown that a narrative topic appears in their narratives only when the narrator cannot construct a text in advance and is forced to describe events simultaneously with their observation.

Tidalectical Dishonor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Pressley-Sanon
Keyword(s):  
The Dead ◽  
Metaphysical Standpoint ◽  
Oral Stories

“Tidalectical Dishonor centers on the lwa Marasa and argues that from a metaphysical standpoint, the twinned relationship between the living and the dead was severely disrupted in the 2010 earthquake. It is up to the living, in collaboration with the dead, to return order to the land as the oral stories from the chapter suggests.

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