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Once Upon Our Time: The Ancient Art Of Storytelling In A Contemporary West Africa, Harlee Keller
Once Upon Our Time: The Ancient Art Of Storytelling In A Contemporary West Africa, Harlee Keller
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Storytelling is an art form that has been flourishing in Senegal since the country’s origin. Traditionally, storytelling was a communal endeavor, oral and interactive. As modernity crept up on Senegal storytelling began to change, oral tradition only partially surviving in rural settings, almost completely obsolete in big cities. I am particularly interested in how Wolof tales and oral storytelling are surviving in a modernizing Senegal. I think that storytelling is a form of cultural education for children and adults alike, and that preservation is dire for the survival of this art. I will discuss story structure, content and the opinions …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
Bobby Ives was honored at a brunch held by the University of Maine Foundation to launch the new Sandy and Bobby Ives Fund on Oct. 19, 2014. David Taylor and LeeEllen Friedland established the fund, the purpose of which is to support undergraduate students doing ethnographic and/or oral history research who have had formal training and/or a mentor at UMaine and/or by attending field schools. Students Hilary Warner-Evans and Taylor Cunningham, currently minoring in folklore studies, attended the event and talked about their research.
Report On My Fall 2013 Sabbatical Leave, Haiwang Yuan
Report On My Fall 2013 Sabbatical Leave, Haiwang Yuan
DLPS Faculty Publications
Haiwang Yuan, Professor of Department of Library Public Services of WKU, received his 2012-2013 Research & Creative Activities Program (RCAP) grant from WKU Research Office and a book contract from a U.S. publisher ABC-CLIO to write a book on Tibetan folktales. He then applied for and was awarded the fall 2013 sabbatical leave. With the grant and the leave, he made his research field trip to Tibet and some other Tibetan communities in China. This is the report he has given to his dean and WKU Academic Affairs Office as required. He has now submitted the manuscripts of his book.