Folk Culture Adaptation and Ghosts Study

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness

Adaptation of Horsesickness Virus to Tissue Culture

Crossing Boundaries: the Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Folk Narratives

It is one of the paradoxes of folk narrative research that the t r ans l a t ion and the t r a n s c u l t u r a l adap ta t ionof folklore texts have received so Httle attention so far. This lack of scholarly interest is surprising insofar äs folkloristics and ethnology, from their beginnings in the late 18th Century, had a keen interest in o ther cultures — and they bcgan with translations. I...

elements of folk culture and practices in contemporary women novelists

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