When Generous Gods Offer “Backhoe-Arm Load of Gems”*: Folk Ideas Found among Gem Miners of the Sabaragamuwa Region
Global research into folkloric speech acts, like folktales, folksongs and folk drama, have revealed a rich body of concealed cultural conventions and concepts, prompting the folklorist Alan Dundes to identify such events as ‘autobiographical ethnography,’ or the way in which a group of people would portray themselves. The present study focuses on potential cultural conjecture that could be located in a body of regional folktales found among a group of people engaged in a specific vocation, gem mining. These folktales are published as Sabaragamuwe Menik Kathandara saha Sinharaje Withthi (Gem-re... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | OUSL Journal, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 45-62 (2020) |
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The Open University of Sri Lanka
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Schlagwörter: | folktales / cultural conjecture / folk ideas / gem industry / material condition / Education / L / Science / Q |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29234815 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.4038/ouslj.v15i2.7502 |