For the last 25 years discussions and debates about commonsense psychology (or “folk psychology,” as it is often called) have been center stage in the philosophy of mind. There have been heated disagreements both about what folk psychology is and about how it is related to the scientific understanding of the mind/brain that is emerging in psychology and the neurosciences. In this chapter we wil...

BACKGROUND Folk taxonomy is a sub-area of ethnobiology that study the way of how traditional communities classify, identify and name their natural resources. The work present was undertaken in two traditional communities (Barra de Mamanguape and Tramataia). The objective of this study was investigate the ethnobiological classification of the local crabs and swimming crabs used by the crustaceou...

Masallar, halk kültürü ve edebiyatı içinde değerler eğitimi, ana dil öğretimi, gelenek aktarımı, eğlenme eğlendirme gibi birçok işlevi olan türlerden biridir. Geçmişten günümüze, yerelin evrensele taşındığı ürünlerinden olması itibariyle sözlü yer alan masallar, evrensel motiflere sahip olmasına rağmen bağlamı olduğu kültürün izlerini taşır. Edebi bir metin oluşmasını sağlayan önemli küçük parç...

Folk song is a type of oral literature that lives and develops in society, especially rural communities. songs have the power to represent local knowledge community. Therefore, study needed reveal this. This research aims at revealing Buru people contained Buru’s weneks (folk songs). The data are texts (eight weneks) obtained from four informants, namely several village elders as owner songs. q...

In this study, the effects of constructivist learning and computer-assisted instruction on achievement attitudes high school 2nd grade students in folk literature unit were examined by comparing with traditional teaching methods. The sample study consisted 60 studying a Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. was taught using computer assisted method experimental group, while methods used control group. Construct...

There remains a broad consensus that current folk racial categories— those categories usually used on surveys, recognized by tbe U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and used on census forms and by U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA)—do not correspond to meaningful biological categories. Pace some recent attempts to defend the use of folk racial categories as a proxy for ancestry and ...

Music classification has been widely investigated in the past few years using a variety of machine learning approaches. In this study, a corpus of 3367 folk songs, divided into six geographic regions, has been created and is used to evaluate two popular yet contrasting methods for symbolic melody classification. For the task of folk song classification, a global feature approach, which summariz...