Oral Traditions In Insular Southeast Asia

Author : Aone van Engelenhoven
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527560628

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Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia by Aone van Engelenhoven Pdf

Insular Southeast Asia is made up of six nations, which are characterised by an extraordinary diversity of cultures and languages. Consequently, oral tradition in the region is similarly heterogeneous and may be performed in poetry, storytelling, singing or a combination of all three. Its study may be perceived from various academic angles. The present edition contains eleven contributions which discuss oral tradition from different perspectives, covering ecocriticism, poetics, semiotics, linguistics, folkloristics and politics. This volume explores expressions of oral folklore from different corners of Insular Southeast Asia and exemplifies diverse and alternative approaches to oral poetry and storytelling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527560511

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ORAL TRADITIONS IN INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Chong Guan Kwa,James H. Morrison
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9812300279

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Oral History in Southeast Asia by Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Chong Guan Kwa,James H. Morrison Pdf

Oral History is a means of recording the past, through interviews. There has been much oral history activity in Southeast Asia since the 1960s at both the institutional and individual levels. This volume contains a range of papers dealing with the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in oral history and the unique problems of their application in the Southeast Asian context. The authors include both academics and practitioners who bring with them a wealth of expertise and experience in anthropology, history, sociology, publishing and archives administration.

Author : K. Loh,S. Dobbs,E. Koh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137311672

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Oral History in Southeast Asia by K. Loh,S. Dobbs,E. Koh Pdf

Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.

Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000214499

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Orality and Language by G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis Pdf

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, the fourth in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts from across the globe, it looks at the intricacies of oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, and the nature of creativity among indigenous communities. It also discusses the risk of a complete decline of the languages of indigenous peoples, as well as the attempts being made to conserve these languages. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, and Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135917142

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Traditional Storytelling Today by Margaret Read MacDonald Pdf

Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.

Author : Jan van der Putten,Edwin P. Wieringa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527502772

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Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions by Jan van der Putten,Edwin P. Wieringa Pdf

This volume is the result of a conference held in October 2015 in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing developments that are considered important in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part of the book reflects on the traumatic experiences of the Indonesian nation caused by a failed coup on October 1, 1965. In more general theoretical terms, this topic connects to the field of memory studies, which, in recent decades, has made an academic comeback. The focus of the chapters in this section is how certain, often distressing, events are represented in narratives in a variety of media that are periodically renewed, changed, rehearsed, repeated, and performed, in order to become or stay part of the collective memory of a certain group of people. The second part of the book explores how forces of globalisation have impacted upon the local and, linguistically surprisingly, rather homogeneous cultural productions of Indonesia. The main strands of inquiry in this second section are topics of global trends in religion, responses to urban development, the impact of popular literary developments, and how traditions are revisited in order to come to terms with international cultural developments.

Author : Chris Shei,Saihong Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000574500

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The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics by Chris Shei,Saihong Li Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia. Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages. Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

Author : Eline Visser
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103430

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A grammar of Kalamang by Eline Visser Pdf

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195308280

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The Longest Journey by Eric Tagliacozzo Pdf

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.

Author : Fiachra Long,Siobhán Dowling Long
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134792498

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Reading the Sacred Scriptures by Fiachra Long,Siobhán Dowling Long Pdf

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the belief systems of the featured religions. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate religious studies students, teachers and lecturers can explore religious traditions from their historical beginnings.

Author : Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811512285

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Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy by Jeffrey Ayala Milligan Pdf

This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region. It offers a critical historical and ethnographic analysis of a century of failed attempts under successive U.S. colonial and independent Philippine governments to deploy education as a tool to mitigate the conflict and assimilate the Muslim minority into the mainstream of Philippine society and examines recent efforts to integrate state and Islamic education before proposing a philosophy of prophetic pragmatism as a more promising framework for educational policy and practice that respects the religious identity and fosters the educational development of Muslim Filipinos. It represents a timely contribution to the search for educational policies and practices more responsive to the needs and religious identities of Muslim communities emerging from conflict, not only in the southern Philippines, but in other international contexts as well.

Author : Claudio Delang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134359066

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Living at the Edge of Thai Society by Claudio Delang Pdf

The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention, education land management and gender relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : International librarianship
ISBN : UCSD:31822003588084

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Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118645

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The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today by Robert L. Winzeler Pdf

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography, languages, prehistory and history, with a particular emphasis on the role of colonialism and the development of ethnic pluralism. It then turns to classic anthropological topics of interest including modes of adaptation, ways of life, and religion, all illustrated with relevant, current case studies. Students will find well-supported discussions of subjects ranging from the development of agriculture and language dispersals, to fantasy and reality in hunter-gatherer studies, to disputed interpretations of Thai Buddhism and Javanese Islam, to ongoing government efforts to manage religion, create proper citizens, resettle and assimilate indigenous populations, end shifting cultivation and promote modernization.