In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social ...hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture.
In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic evidence. His emphasis on male folklore provides a timely complement to current research on women.
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores ...examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.
What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age?The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred ...stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for word. The stories are organized chronologically by the age of the teller, revealing the progression of verbal competence and the gradual emergence of staging and plot organization. Many stories told by two-year-olds, for example, have only beginnings with no middle or end; the "narrative" is held together by rhyme or alliteration. After the age of three or four, the same children tell stories that feature a central character and a narrative arc. The stories also exhibit each child's growing awareness and management of his or her environment and life concerns. Some children see their stories as dialogues between teller and audience, others as monologues expressing concerns about fate and the forces of good and evil. Brian Sutton-Smith discusses the possible origins of the stories themselves: folktales, parent and teacher reading, media, required writing of stories in school, dreams, and play. The notes to each chapter draw on this context as well as folktale analysis and child development theory to consider why and how the stories take their particular forms.The Folkstories of Childrenprovides valuable evidence and insight into the ways children actively and inventively engage language as they grow.
En Tientos y diferencias, Carpentier afirma: "la palabra palmera basta para definir, pintar, mostrar, la palmera. En ellos destaca un trabajo de imbricación de lo gestual y lo musical con lo textual, ...una imbricación de vocación aporética, cuyas "huellas musicales" (2023: 36) van dejando un trazado, el que Gari persigue: trazado que explora la función del folklore afrocubano en la construcción de la identidad caribeña. El problema de la representación del afrocubano en los ballets de Amadeo Roldan y Alejo Carpentier") explora la pelea por la representación del afrocubano en los primeros ballets que Carpentier escribe junto a Roldan (¿a rebambaramba; El milagro de Anaquillé).
Paolo Gatti, Per Fabulas, a cura di Caterina Mordeglia e Antonella DegliTnnocenti, Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022. En la solapa final del libro se nombran algunos de los estudios y ...ediciones que se disponen a publicar en los proximos numeros (sobre las fabulas de las distintas recensiones del Romulus, sobre las fabulas de Odon de Cheriton, etc.), que no hacen sino aumentar nuestra expectacion. La serie que se titula "Fabula: Fables from Antiquity to Modern Times" se presenta como una continuacion de aquella exitosa inaugurada por Bertini, si bien pretende ir un paso mas alia. En este primer volumen se recoge una seleccion de articulos y resehas del profesor Paolo Gatti, previamente publicados en diversas revistas cientificas. En concrete, muchos de los trabajos van dedicados a explicar cuestiones relacionadas con las fabulas latinas del monje Ademaro de Chabannes (s. XI), que el propio Gatti, junto a Bertini, habia editado en 1988, asi como a analizar la azarosa historia textual de las fabulas de Fedro. El Prof. Gatti es un exponente mas que acreditado de la prestigiosa escuela de Genova, que comenzo a brillar con la figura de Francesco Della Corte. Gatti, discipulo de Bertini, es un reconocido filologo especializado en la literatura latina medieval. En esta obra se vuelven a publicar por orden cronologico trece de las aportaciones de Gatti, centradas en aspectos de la fabula latina medieval. En los trabajos del viejo profesor, que abarcan desde el ano 1979 al aho 2016, las editoras celebran la vigencia de lo que Haman el "metodo filologico italiano", personificado en la figura de Paolo Gatti. Tras los trece trabajos se ahade una bibliografia completa de las aportaciones cientificas de Paolo Gatti publicadas entre 1975 y 2021, preparada por Michele de Lazzer. Concluye la obra con tres utiles indices, preparados por Michele de Lazzer: un indice alfabetico de manuscritos, otro de estudiosos citados y un tercero de los autores y sus obras que se mencionan a lo largo de los trabajos anteriores. En resumen, como hemos sehalado, este pequeho libro pone a nuestra disposicion algunas destacadas contribuciones del Prof. Gatti al estudio de la fabula latina medieval.
