The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

BACKGROUND There is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. We provide a list of folk taxa, and discuss folk biological classification and nomenclature, salient features, uses, related proverbs and sayings, and conservation. METHODS We collected data among Hungarian-...

All of us are said to have a set of folk sciences: intuitive ways of understanding the world in areas such as biology, physical mechanics, and psychology. In addition, these folk sciences are thought to have deep and interesting similarities to the formal sciences. Both are usually described as having coherence and internal consistency, as well as specifying certain foundational or ontological ...

This paper proves a new folk theorem for repeated games with private monitoring and communication, extending the idea of delayed communication in Compte [6] to the case where private signals are correlated. The sufficient condition for the folk theorem is generically satisfied with more than two players, even when other well-known conditions are not. The folk theorem also applies to some two-pl...

calling tradition is among clearest areas which can be found in modern dramatic literary and artistic texts.  the ancient hero is quite well known  and since long has  found his place in literature and art of different nations especially in legends, epics, folk tales, oral literature and dramatic texts such that it was in a battle with other elements and defeated them. abou khalil alqabbani, th...

The riddle for Dong people could be presented as a typical character literary composition in rhyme people's folk literature, which is also the expression and representation their wisdom with observation world day by day. This paper will take elaboration terms of types characteristics people.

Ancient medical systems are still prevalent in Sikkim, popularly nurtured by Buddhist groups using the traditional Tibetan pharmacopoeia overlapping with Ayurvedic medicine. Traditional medical practices and their associated cultural values are based round Sikkim's three major communities, Lepcha, Bhutia and Nepalis. In this study, a semi-structured questionnaire was prepared for folk healers c...