Multi-Lingual and Multicultural Education in Globalizing Southeast Asia
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Teachers’ Perceptions of Cultural Contents in English Language Textbooks Used in Multicultural Classrooms at a Thai Primary School
Textbooks have always played a significant role in the field of English language teaching (ELT). They are the main source that conveys cultural values and information in the language classroom. However, compared to the increasing number of migrants in …
Teaching Migrant Students From Myanmar: Professional Development Program to Facilitate Multicultural Competence for Teachers
In recent years, the migration of people from Myanmar into Thailand has increased tremendously. Since 2005, when the Thai government officially allowed migrant children to enroll in Thai government schools, there has been a steady increase in the numbe…
Participatory Engagement for Sustainable Innovation in Karen Communities
This paper reports on heritage fieldwork by the Mahidol Cultural Anthropology Museum, carried out from 2019 to 2020, with a group of four Karen villages in Doi Si Than, or ‘Four Creeks Mountain’, a valley in the remote Northwest of Thailand. The resear…
The Ideological Stance of Multilingualism in Education in Malaysia in the Press 2000-2020
The past 20 years have witnessed major shifts in language and education policy in Malaysia. This reflects a range of social, economic, and political forces that influence and shape the policymaking in this multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Past r…
Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar
Myanmar is home to over 54.8 million people, consisting of over 100 ethnolinguistic groups with distinct linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. Since Myanmar gained independence from Great Britain, education has been used as the main politic…
Editor’s Column
Readers of Oral Tradition will find in this issue an exceptionally rich and varied assortment of topics. The six essays presented here discuss texts and performances in eight different languages, several of them appearing for the very first time in the journal’s pages. As George E. Dunkel (“The Oral Style of the R̥gveda”) points out […]
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Epic Inside-Out
Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):37-66 In spite of ourselves, epic absorbs us.1 And then we encounter issues that are more tangled than grass roots. For example, we have now identified two other versions of the adventures of Ajkuna, wife of Muj, and they give quite different explanations for what happened to her. It must have been […]
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The Oral Style of the R̥gveda
Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):3-36 1. The Study of R̥gvedic Repetitions1 In the second volume of his 1877 edition of the R̥gveda, Theodor Aufrecht collects about three thousand repeated verses and phrases from that text. Beginning with the paired Vālakhilya hymns 8.49-52, which he describes as “two versions of the same material . . . like two […]
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Coast Miwok Oral Tradition
Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):67-86 Little has been published on the oral traditions of the Coast Miwok that provides any information on the original language and linguistic verbal art of this group.1 The Coast Miwok language was spoken north of San Francisco Bay, largely in an area corresponding to modern Marin County and parts of Sonoma County, […]
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Dynamics of Voiced Poetry
Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):167-88 Introduction In African Muslim societies, religious values are transmitted and reinforced through “voiced texts,” poetic texts recorded in writing but designed to be performed orally and received aurally (Foley 2002). Aural reception implies the participatory and/or virtual involvement of an audience within sacred or hybrid frames. For most Muslim preachers, voiced […]
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About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 35, Number 1 George Eugene Dunkel After studying Greek, Sanskrit, and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in Paris, Philadelphia, and Erlangen, George Dunkel taught in the Departments of Classics at Johns Hopkins University (from 1975) and Princeton University (from 1978). He then served as chairman of the Indogermanisches Seminar of the University of Zurich, […]
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The Musical Poetry of Endangered Languages
Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):103-66 Many peoples of the world conceptualize what English speakers call poetry and music or song as a single integrated unit, what I will call the “poem-song.” Poem-songs may function as models or molds, opening up possibilities for singers, poets, and composers to structure and remember texts, and to convey their ideas […]
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Daily Survival
Due to ecological disturbances, the scarcity of natural resources, especially fish, is increasingly disrupting the rhythm of life of local fishermen Mousgoum in the flood plain to the point where Moumin and his family are integrating new activities to …
Ernesto De Martino – La fine del mondo
Book forum on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses cult…
Cristina Larrea Killinger: “tenemos que aprender a comunicar nuestras ideas a personas que desconocen lo que es la antropología”
Partint de la frase que tanca aquesta conversa amb Cristina Larrea -“Hem d’aprendre, també, a comunicar les nostres idees a persones que desconeixen què és l’antropologia”- volem destacar que persisteix la necessitat de reafirmar el potenc…
The Weight of the Posthumous: A Review of Etel Adnan “Light’s New Measure” at the Guggenheim Museum
October 8, 2021 – January 10, 2022Guggenheim Museum1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128 Beyond any doubt, the recent passing of Etel Adnan (1925-2021) transformed the sense of her exhibition Light’s New Measure at the Guggenheim. What started as an exhibit…
Lost in Narrative
This article examines the portrayal of mental disability in Malawian literature. Through a critical analysis of selected poetry, short stories, and plays, the article argues that in the Malawian literary imagination, mental disability is usually approp…
Book Review
Book Review
Dawro Personal Names and Naming Practices
The Dawro, speakers of an Omotic language in Southwest Ethiopia, use personal names both to establish individuals’ linguistic identity and to reflect their culture and language. This article provides an explanatory analysis of “traditional” Dawro perso…
Book Review
Book Review
Suspicious spirits
Over the last twenty years, a number of anthropologists have questioned the discipline’s “epistemology of intimacy” to show that in some parts of the world, Otherness plays an integral role in the construction of social unity. While Otherness has been …
Playing the Waiting Game
This article focuses on the ways in which a group of mostly gay, Afrikaans-speaking Christians interpret, appropriate, and deploy the institution of marriage at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church in Pretoria. In so doing, it demonstrates that resea…
SMS Can Never Replace WhatsApp
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have had soothing effects on social relationships over the last two decades: friends and families can easily locate and socialize with one another through smartphones, mobile phones, and the internet. Co…
Protest and Political Change in Ethiopia
Ethiopia was until recently perceived to be a strong state, with a coherent governing coalition party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front, dominated by its minority Tigrayan component party. The death of the party’s strongman Meles Z…