Sökning: "Oral Traditions"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 uppsatser innehållade orden Oral Traditions.

  1. 1. Vardagsmagi och läkekonst: En svartkonstbok från Glava

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Författare :Mirella Arnell; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : As part of the practices connected with folk medicine in Sweden, as well as in the rest of the Nordic countries, is an old literary genre grown from the combination of oral and literary traditions – svartkonstböcker, literally translated to black art books. These books were used by the professionals in the field of folk medicine, namely the wise old men and women. LÄS MER

  3. 2. DIVING INTO RĀMĀYAṆA: : SITĀ & SURPANAKHĀ OF VALMIKI'S RĀMĀYAṆA COMPARED WITH ORAL NARRATIONS OF RĀMĀYAṆA BY PAULA RICHMAN

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Författare :Hirumali Rachel Brickner Ekanayake; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Rāmāyaṇa; Sitā; Śūrpanakhā; Valmiki; Oral Traditions; Andhra Pradesh; Brahmin women;

    Sammanfattning : The present study is completely a literature study, where the limelight has been on Rāmāyaṇa. Focusing on the Rāmāyaṇa written by Valmiki and comparing it to the oral tradition (songs) from Andhra Pradesh, sung by Brahmin women presented in Paula Richman’s book Many Ramayanas (1991); The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Zanendaba! Exploring how Zulu traditional storytelling can contribute to better futures

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Författare :Codruta Savu; [2022]
    Nyckelord :South Africa; storytelling; sustainable futures;

    Sammanfattning : Engaging with collective imaginaries to co-create positive stories about the future is suggested as a powerful tool for increasing the social-ecological resilience needed to cope with uncertainty and change. Indeed, as archaeological evidence shows, stories and storytelling about humankind and the rest of nature are as old as modern humanity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "Literature should reflect the basic principles of our existence" : A mediality analysis of Mo Yan´s Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Författare :Anneliese Fältström; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Mo Yan; Life and Death are Wearing Me Out; Ximen Nao och hans sju liv; inter- och intermedialitet; medial projection; formal imitation; kroppslighet- och våldsmediering; kinesisk litteratur och muntlig tradition; polyfoni; postkolonial teori och intermedialitet;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to use an intermedial theory to analyse and contextualize embodiment and violence in the Chinese author Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. I use Jørgen Bruhn’s mediality model, introduced in The Intermediality of Narrative Literature: Medialities Matter (2016), to analyse medial phenomena such as intra- and intermediality in the novel. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Metoder för flerfärgsstickning : En undersökning av instruktioner i handböcker

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Textilvetenskap

    Författare :Olle-Petter Melin; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Fair isle knitting; instructions; methods; knitting-manuals; Flerfärgsstickning; instruktioner; metoder; handböcker i stickning;

    Sammanfattning : Melin, O-P, 2017, Metoder för flerfärgsstickning - En undersökning av instruktioner i handböcker. (Fair-isle knitting methods – A survey of instructions in knitting manuals), Institutionen för Konstvetenskap, Department of Art History, Uppsala University. LÄS MER