CHALLENGES OF PRESERVING ORAL TRADITIONS AMONG BASARWA TRIBE MODISE JUDGE 201201027 THATO KGAKGE 201203471 DOREEN PHALE 201204113 ABSTRACT Basarwa are faced with huge responsibilities of preserving their Oral Traditions. This project has been written to address issues that Basarwa are facing. All the importance and challenges of Oral Traditions among Basarwa are covered in this project‚ making it a basic text for Basarwa tribe whom would want to preserve their Oral Traditions and overcome
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There is very little differences throughout the internet of the stories of this mythical creature called Kitsune. The three websites that have been chosen is “Mythical Creatures Guide‚” “Kitsune‚” and “Pinterest” and the following website will be explored for how it describe and analyze Kitsune. What all the website include is a common photos of a Kitsune in its fox from. The photos is from the old traditional Japanese age (see figure 1) and from more modern artists who had been interested by the
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Mythical Place/Object Paper There are many mythical places or objects throughout the world of mythology. Many of them you may be familiar with or not. If you stop to think about it for a bit‚ you come to realize that these mythical places and objects still co-exists to this day and are still practiced or frowned upon. After reviewing the many different mythical places and objects we were able to narrow down our selection to places. In the end‚ we decided to do our paper on Jerusalem.
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Explain the idea of myth and show how it is helpful to explain any American cultural form. Culture shapes the way we think. It is the society’s system of shared‚ learned values and norms; these are the society’s design for living. It has an influence on the way we look‚ our habits‚ our tastes and the way we relate to others. Values are an abstract of ideas which are about the good‚ the right and the desirable. Norms are the social rules and guidelines. The definition of myth is a “popular belief
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The trickster deity breaks the rules of the gods or nature‚ sometimes maliciously like Loki‚ but usually‚ albeit unintentionally with ultimately positive effects. Tricksters are characterized as selfish‚ mischievous‚ impatient liars who show no remorse. Some tricksters have hidden meanings behind their rudeness that carry good intentions. All cultures have archetypal‚ male tricksters. In the Greek and African myths‚ Hermes and Legba are both messengers of god. Hermes‚ through is intelligence‚ makes
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For many years ligers were seen as mythical creatures. There has been a huge debate since they came into the limelight; in the popular 2004 cult movie Napoleon Dynamite when Napoleon described them pretty much as his favorite animal. That prompted the questions that is still being asked today‚ “Are they real?”‚ and “What are they really like?” The answer to the first question is‚ yes‚ they are very real. Though‚ the first question is still part of the huge debate; the second question presents
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Traditions and culture has been part of people for a longtime now‚ people have held to the traditions even as some remain outdated. Traditions have remained encrypted on people’s thoughts in that they refer to them when they want to do anything. In Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca traditions has remained a core theme in that it plays part of what people do and practice. In both books they speak of love turn sour by the effects of traditions
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TMA04: The Invention Of Tradition. How selective did Irish Nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past? The Invention of Tradition as described by Hobsbawm and Ranger‚ “Is taken to mean a set of practices‚ normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of ritual or symbolic nature‚ which seek to inculcate certain values as norms of behaviour by reputation.” (E. Hobsbawm‚ T Ranger‚ 1983. p.3) The concept of tradition is the passing down of practices
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In the Berlin Staatliche Art Museum‚ it displays Pieter Bruegel’s iconic oil on oak panel. It’s entitle “Neverlandish Proverbs‚” which highlights 100 idioms that recognise sin‚ folly‚ and obscure activities. Specifically‚ in the lower right hand panel‚ six people can be found doing bizarre activities‚ such as‚ struggling to reach for a loaf of bread‚ looking for a small axe‚ yawning at an oven‚ and intensely playing tough-of-war with another man. These actions may seem arbitrary‚ but each action
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