Writing and translating Timorese oral tradition*

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Writing System

Black British Women’s Writing: Tracing the Tradition and New Directions

Panel 1: Beyond Narratives of Unbelonging? (Westlain, 217) ‘Ruin and Recovery: A Spatial Reading of Diana Evans’s Fiction Suzanne Scafe (London South Bank University) In Evans’s 26a, the character, Georgia, speaks of her ruin in spatial terms. It is both a place and a time of loss. Recovery too is a place ‘to find the ones we have lost, the unruined, the ones we dream of becoming again’ (103). ...

The Forager Oral Tradition and the Evolution of Prolonged Juvenility

The foraging niche is characterized by the exploitation of nutrient-rich resources using complex extraction techniques that take a long time to acquire. This costly period of development is supported by intensive parental investment. Although human life history theory tends to characterize this investment in terms of food and care, ethnographic research on foraging skill transmission suggests t...

Narrative Tradition In Early Greek Oral Poetry And Vase-Painting

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

Translating neuroscience research to oral medicine: oxytocin and human behavior.