The African-American folklore stories are entertainment but also have a teaching element and are similar to the Native American stories read earlier this semester. The Brer Rabbit stories are classic trickster tales much like the Native American stories. Brer Rabbit in these stories would be comparable to the coyote of Native American trickster tales. Brer Rabbit is a smaller and less intimidating animal than his fellow characters Brer Fox and Brer Bear. Brer Rabbit is a trickster figure that is
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Gruff (Norway version) and The Three Billy goats (Poland/Germany version) they each are told differently in different countries‚ but comparing them and finding their differences helps us understand how we tell or folklore stories differently from others today. In many countries they tell folklore stories a lot differently that we do today take The Three Billy goats gruff for example there is three different versions told a lot different from each other. The three different versions are The Norway version
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In his classic study‚ he told a group of American participants a North American Folklore “The War of The Ghost”. The folklore consists of concepts and terms for example spirits and kayaks that were unfamiliar to the participants. In a later unexpected test of recall‚ participants tend to shorten and alter the story to a slightly “American version”. Key local terms such as kayaks were recalled as boats‚ the folklore was altered into a more coherent version to the participants. The fact that the
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Fieldwork assignment #2: Museum Ethnography I have always been interested in Japanese culture and traditions‚ so for my museum ethnography assignment I visited the American Museum of Natural History‚ where I chose the Stout Hall of Asian Peoples for further analyzing. Japanese culture is a very unique one‚ which differs from others; anthropologists refer to it as “a style”. There are a lot of interesting exhibits in the wing I chose; they all have different stories to tell. It was impossible to
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Animation 101 class. So on 8th October‚ we watched Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece film called Spirited Away in behind the scenes. The synopsis of the film is that a young girl‚ Chichiro‚ stumbles into the land of the spirits (the place with Japanese’s folklores)‚ where her parents are transformed into pigs‚ and to save them‚ she herself must get a job in the bathhouse owned by the witch Yubaba. By watching the whole process‚ Miyazaki combines the film with characters from Japanese’s legends or myth; it
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1. Kelly’s last words were: "Life is so!" On November 23‚ 1880‚ Sir Redmond Berry did not take long Died‚ only 12 days after Kelly’s death. 2. In the history and folklore of Australia‚ as well as in books‚ movies and other works of art‚ Ned Kelly can be said to be a respected idol by the Australians‚ the image was even used in 2000 in Sydney The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games. As the saying goes: "... ... Ned Kelly as brave (that is very brave)" This shows that it is deeply commemorated
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Neeltje. “Caribbean Oral Traditions”. Puerto Rico Encyclopedia. Dec 20‚ 2011 http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=11112505 accessed March 15‚ 2012 5) Hill R‚ Donald. “Caribbean folklore: a handbook” http://books.google.tt/books?id=Gbowblf1QP8C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=donald+r+hill+caribbean+folklore accessed March 15‚ 2012 -------------------------------------------- [ 2 ]. A griot is a West African storyteller‚ praise singer‚ poet and musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition
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and do not seem to be leaving any time soon. Sports rituals mean so much. They get an athlete pumped or excited before a match. They help a person get focused on the task at hand and help them achieve success. Folklore has tie ins with sports‚ more importantly sports rituals. In any folklore tale‚ a ritual of some sort always occurs. Rituals are defined as a stereotyped sequence of activities involving gestures‚ words‚ and objects‚ performed in a sequestered place‚ and designed to influence preternatural
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Jersey." Journal Of Palestine Studies 37.4 (2008): 21-37. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov. 2013. Gorfain‚ Phyllis‚ Deborah Kapchan‚ and Katharine Young. "Inscribed Surfaces: On Bodies on Film." The Journal of American Folklore 109.431 (Winter 1996): 79-92. American Folklore Society. JSTOR. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. Ahmed‚ Amineh. "Death and Celebration among Muslim Women: A Case Study from Pakistan." Modern Asian Studies 39.4 (Oct. 2005): 929-980. JSTOR. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. Read‚ Jen ’Nan G.‚ and John
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the common people or just anyone who shared their interests of the stories. The article states how the Grimm Brothers sympathised with the interest shown in mythology‚ folklore‚ and dreams by German romantic literature‚ art‚ and music. To keep them as close to their original forms as possible‚ they collected oral accounts of folklore and to reproduce them
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