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@article{JEF, author = {Aglaia Starostina}, title = { The Prince’s Wings: Possible Origin of the Tale Type and Its Early Chinese Variants}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The article aims to clarify the relations between the early versions of tale type ATU 575. Examining the range of Chinese accounts concerning various wooden birds, the author concludes that two groups can be distinguished. The first consists of stories about flying wooden kite-like birds that are not used as vehicles, while in the second, we deal with wooden birds that can carry people. Records belonging to the second group and evidently having their origin in Indian and Central Asian folk tradition appear later in China. An attempt is made to restore possible outlines of the tale type’s ancestral stories. The article states that the tale of an enamoured weaver in the Panchatantra evolves from the structure of such an ancestral story. }, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {154–169}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/399} }

@article{JEF, author = {Reeli Torn-Leesik}, title = { Book Review. Review Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Dajko, Nathalie and Shana Walton, eds. 2019. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. }, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {180–182}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/420} }

@article{JEF, author = {Imomotimi Armstrong}, title = { Of Barrenness and Witchcraft: The Songs of the Legi Women’s Association}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Witchcraft and barrenness are two critical issues that African women have had to grapple with since precolonial times. Therefore, the focus of attention in this paper is the songs of the Legi voluntary association among the Ịjọ of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. The Legi women’s group is made up of adult women who are barren and/or have been tagged witches by their community. The women of the association compose songs about their experiences in society and sing them at burials. For the women of the Legi Association, art is a means of showing support for or solidarity with a member of the group whose father or mother has died. Moreover, the members of the association perform their songs at burials that are unconnected with them to celebrate with those who invite them.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {50–64}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/381} }

@article{JEF, author = {Magfirah Thayyib}, title = { The Ecological Insight of the Bunga’ Lalang Rice Farming Tradition in Luwu Society, South Sulawesi, Indonesia}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The ecological insights of local farming traditions have the potential to be adapted to modern agricultural practices. The article presents an exploration of the ecological insights of the bunga’ lalang rice farming tradition in the Luwu society, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Four rituals that form part the tradition were observed directly during their performance, followed by interviews with eleven figures including the ritual masters. Each ritual that forms part of the bunga’ lalang tradition was treated as a discourse and the meanings of the biological elements are extracted to generate ecological knowledge that is biologically logical and compatible with modern scientific knowledge in rice farming.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {140–153}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/385} }

@article{JEF, author = {Marju Kõivupuu}, title = { Book Review. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Amanik, Allan and Kami Fletcher. 2020. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 288 pages.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {177–179}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/413} }

@article{JEF, author = {Emelie Höglund}, title = { Disarmed by Drama Methodology}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {170–176}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/375} }

@article{JEF, author = {Alina Oprelianska}, title = { The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The article sets the goal of describing the Ukrainian ritual of the sealed grave and its relation to revenants, or the unquiet dead, based both on the author’s fieldwork and ethnographic collections of the turn of the 20th century. The meaning of the ritual and its variants are delineated through folk beliefs and institutionalised Orthodoxy and are defined as one of the main reasons for becoming revenants. Depending on a proper or failed funeral, the dead have different possibilities and time boundaries to visit the living. Together with biological reasons, the ritual of sealing a grave allows a seven-year period of return prior to the grave being finally sealed. }, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {27–49}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/405} }

@article{JEF, author = {Kikee Bhutia}, title = { Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The Sikkimese are a multi-ethnic community in a Himalayan sub-region in India. Even though the majority of the population is Hindu and Nepalese, the minority Buddhist and Bhutia/Lepcha communities are very strong. Death by poisoning is a common occurrence among the Sikkimese, and it is often ambiguous and subject to suspicion. Narrated initially as traditional cautionary tales, these belief narratives have been used against the multi-ethnic communities that reside in Sikkim, leading to real-world accusations. The article explores how belief in, and narratives related to, poison, poisoning, poison keepers and the poison deity are used to justify the demonisation and othering of a community.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {65–84}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/406} }

@article{JEF, author = {Kirsti Jamieson and Marta Discepoli and Ella Leith}, title = { The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The paper reflects upon the Deaf Heritage Collective, a collaborative project led by Edinburgh Napier University’s Design for Heritage team and Heriot Watt’s Centre for Translation And Interpreting Studies. The project aimed to advance discussion around the British Sign Language Act (Scottish Government 2015) and bring into being a network of Deaf communities and cultural heritage organisations committed to promoting BSL in public life. The aim of this paper is to contextualise the project and its creative approach within the distinctly Scottish context, and the ideals of critical heritage, critical design and the museum activist movement. This paper presents the context and creative processes by which we engaged participants in debate and the struggles we encountered. We describe these processes and the primacy of collaborative making as a mode of inquiry. We argue that by curating a workshop space where different types of knowledge were valorised and where participants were encouraged to “think with” materials (Rockwell and Mactavish 2004) we were able to challenge the balance of power between heritage professionals and members of the Deaf community. By harnessing the explanatory power of collaborative making we debated the assemblages of epistemic inequality, and the imagined futures of Deaf heritage in Scotland.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {1–26}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/364} }

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