scholarly journals Tinuy-an, The Hidden Treasure and other literary forms in barangay Burboanan

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilifreda P. Almazan ◽  
Teresa May A. Mundiz ◽  
Edwin C. Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Resource Material ◽  
Science Classes ◽  
Ways Of Life

This study examines the different literary forms present in Burboanan, Bislig City, where the indigenous tribe, Mandaya Kamayo, is still thriving and practicing their culture and more alongside the new one. It aimed to anthologize literary traditions found in their locality like the indigenous songs, myths, and rituals. Purposive sampling was used involving key informants such as the Mandaya leaders. A triangulation was done with a focused group discussion with the Ancestral Domain Council elders, and documentation of demonstrations on the indigenous ways of life for these people. The study found out that oral tradition is still a dominant practice in the literary scene in Burboanan. The tribe has myth on the origin of the name Tinuy-an; a collection of songs, or bagi; and rituals are done for their anito in order to ask for abundant harvests and heal sick relatives. With this information, a contextualized resource material has been developed for social science classes. The study concludes that nature played a big part in the lives of indigenous people of Burboanan, Bislig City as reflected in their literary tradition. The Mandaya Kamayo living in the area depended on nature for their sustenance, and that the belief of living harmoniously together with unseen beings is still evident.

Socio-Cultural Practices of Indigenous People in Carol-an, Kabankalan City, Philippines

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor F. Castro
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Married Mothers

Anchored on Republic Act No. 8371 that recognizes, respects, and preserves the culture, traditions and institutions of ICCs/IPs, this study described the demographic profile and socio-cultural practices of 160 indigenous peoplerespondents in Carol-an, Kabankalan City who were purposively identified in ten proximate sitios. Qualitative-descriptive methods utilized were key informant interviews and focus group discussion. The results revealed that most respondents were 16-26 years old; lived in the area for 31-40 years; female; married; mothers who belonged to a Carol-anon ethnic group; spoke Hiligaynon and Bisaya dialects. Their socio-cultural practices include high respect of family to the father in decision making, communal ownership of tax exempted land. “Kagon” (mediator), the elder, resolved legal disputes. Marriage proposal called “isaka” was mediated by “Dakong Tawo,” (respected elder) and the bride was allowed to marry at age 12. They believed in sacred places and offer sacrificial pig called “Buhat”. The dead were wrapped in bamboo coffin called “Iiya-liya” and brought to “Binangkilan” Cave, the tomb. To them man used supernatural powers known as “antinganting.” The result of the study served as basis for considering these IPs’ rights in the formulation and application of national educational plans and policies.   Keywords - Social Science, indigenous people, socio-cultural practices, research and development, descriptive design, Philippines

Comparative Examination of Motifs and the Representation of Identies in Selected Works of Kamau Brathwaite and Helene Johnson

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Adetunji Adelokun
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
Identity Renegotiation ◽  
Comparative Examination

This paper is an attempt to consider the deployment of literary motifs to discuss the representation of identities in the selected works of Kamau Brathwaite and Helene Johnson. The analysis was informed by the need to identify the adherence to the preponderant theme of the quest for identity and the representation of identities in American Literary tradition. This study critically appraised and analyzed the development of the African-American and Caribbean literary traditions within the conscious space of displacement and identity renegotiation. The study revealed that the selected and critically pieces of the writers amplify the similarity or uniformity in the sociohistorical experiences of displacement from the root, search for identity and reinstatement of lost values in the enabling milieus of the writers.

scholarly journals LOCAL WISDOM OF BADONCEK AS ORAL TRADITION IN PARIAMAN WEDDING CEREMONY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Deliana Deliana ◽  
Masdiana Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
Comparison Methods ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Wedding Ceremony

This paper is concerned with an oral tradition called Badoncek program which is usually performed at night after the invited guests of a wedding party have gone home. In this study, 20 informants of Pariaman community were interviewed in two different locations, that is at Pasar Sukaramai, Medan and Naras Hilir village in Pariaman district. These interviews generated a total of 6 forms of local wisdom in badoncek ceremony and 5 forms of its weaknesses which were then recorded, transcribed, and documented. This research used in-depth interview and focussed on group discussion. The focus of discussion was on finding the forms of local wisdom and the weakness of the oral tradition of badoncek. These forms of weakness were analyzed based on interpretation and comparison methods. It was found that the concept Barek samo dipikua jikok ringan samo dijinjiang ‘A heavy problem is to be lifted together, and a light problem is also to be carried together’ was implemented through badoncek tradition. The six forms of local wisdom of badoncek were mutual cooperation, harmony, deliberation and consensus, mutual help, openness, and entertainment. The five forms of weaknesses of badoncek were an old tradition, lack of socialization, lack of parents’ role in motivating young generation, lack of knowledge about oral tradition, and lack of empathy to contribute. A number of attempts have been made to preserve badoncek tradition by approaching the local government, custom leaders in Pariaman District, and Pariaman community associations. Badoncek tradition could also be applied to raise funds in order to support various programs of the local government.

scholarly journals Indigenous People and Their Traditional Knowledge on Tropical Plant Cultivation and Utilization: A Case Study of Murut Communities of Sabah, Borneo

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Nur Muhammed ◽  
Theresa Antonia Muthu
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Fuel Wood ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
Plant Utilization

This study was conducted in Murut indigenous people inhibited two villages of Keningau district of Sabah Borneo which is blessed with vast cultural diversities. In this regard, 120 randomly selected households from the Nabaai and Gana tribes of Murut community were investigated with a view to identify their homestead plants, use pattern and also their Traditional Knowledge on plant utilization. Five major research tools (e.g., review of secondary information, key Informant interview, household survey with semi-structured questionnaire and focus group discussion) was employed in this study. It is found that the plant species found in the homestead of the Nabaai and Gana tribes are utilized for three main reasons i.e., i) food production, ii) medicine, and iii) fuel wood. There are 23 utilization pattern has been identified in this study which is much lesser than what was found a decade ago (68 utilization). The Nabaai and Gana tribes practice Traditional Knowledge in their daily life especially, in medicinal plant utilization. The findings also show that most of the Traditional Knowledge on plant utilization is lying with the respondents with low income group (59%) because of their high dependency on utilization of the surrounding resources in their daily life. Appropriate steps to preserve and conserve the Traditional Knowledge on plant utilization possessed and practiced by the Murut indigenous communities are deemed necessary before this huge nature treasure is forgotten.

Cultural Bases for Understanding Literature

PMLA ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Margaret Mead
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Farm Laborer ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
A Chain

Among the variety of contributions which modern anthropological research might be able to offer to members of this Association, I plan to stress only one, that which anthropological studies of whole cultures can make to those whose task it is to cherish and cultivate the arts, and especially literature, in the contemporary world. Just because we, the anthropologists, specialize in primitive, usually quite small, societies and take as our focus communities of a few hundred people with an oral tradition which can be no more elaborate than the memories of those few, we are able to include within our study many aspects of human experience which the scholar dealing with a period or trend within a complex high civilization accepts on authority or takes for granted. Yet, to the extent that the scholar who works with the eighteenth century in England must so take for granted the economic arrangements of agriculture or the methods of child care in the nursery, he or she is cut off from watching the intimate interplay between the way a farm laborer is paid or a child rebuked and the images of sophisticated literature, within which these experiences of the poor or immature may be represented by a chain of transmuted images or an explicit counterpoint which cuts them off from the developed consciousness of the small literate elite who inherited and cultivated the literary tradition of the past. Short of time, and very often short of materials, historians have only recently thought it worth while to consider the “short and simple annals of the poor” or the life of children who were neither the subjects of later literary elaboration by a Samuel Butler or a Proust, nor had even the dubious claims of a Daisy Ashford.

“XI SHUAI” 蟋蟀 (“CRICKET”) AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: ISSUES IN EARLY CHINESE POETRY AND TEXTUAL STUDIES

Early China ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 39-74
Author(s):  
Martin Kern
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe present article explores questions about the composition, performance, circulation, and transmission of early Chinese poetry by examining a small number of poems from the received Mao shi and their counterparts in recently discovered manuscripts. Starting from a close examination of the poem “Xi shuai” (“Cricket”), the essay briefly discusses the problems we face in dealing with looted manuscripts before advancing toward rethinking the patterns of early Chinese poetic composition and transmission. Instead of taking individual poems as discrete, reified objects in the form we encounter them in the Mao shi, it is suggested to read them as particular instantiations of circumscribed repertoires where the individual poetic text is but one of many realizations of a shared body of ideas and expressions. This analysis is informed by the examination of both manuscript texts and the received literature, but also by comparative perspectives gained from both medieval Chinese literature and other ancient and medieval literary traditions. In emphasizing the formation of poetry as a continuous process, it leaves behind notions of “the original text,” authorship, and the moment of “original composition”—notions that held no prominence in the early Chinese literary tradition before the empire.

Inferred Hemispheric Thinking Style, Gender, and Academic Major among United Arab Emirates College Students

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 971-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed A. Albaili
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Science Majors ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
Science Classes

To examine the relationships between the inferred hemispheric chinking style, gender, and academic major, 190 undergraduate men and women in social science and applied science classes were administered the Your Style of Learning and Thinking to assess their thinking styles. Although endorsements of an integrated style were highest for all subjects, analysis indicated men tended to endorse the right-hemisphere style items in processing information more than women, while the latter tended to endorse items of an integrated style in processing information. Applied science majors appeared to endorse items of a more right-hemisphere style in processing information than social science majors. These results were discussed in view of contemporary biological, psychosocial, and educational perspectives.

Oral and Written Transmission Some Considerations

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
G. W. Ahlström
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

The discussion about “oral tradition” in Israel seems to have yielded at least one result, namely, that scholars now talk about traditions rather than sources. This is certainly very often to be preferred, because we really do not know what sources have been used in the composition of a given text, and the text itself is, of course, also a source. It should be pointed out that the word “tradition” can be seen under three main aspects: first, denoting a “literary” tradition — written or not — such as a saga, legend, law, prophetical oracle, myth, psalm, etc.; second, signifying the growth of these smaller unities of traditions as they are handed down by some circle of tradents, priests, disciples of prophets, scribes, minstrels, etc.; and third, denoting the way of doing something, of living, the traditional way of thinking. In discussing oral and written tradition in the Old Testament we deal mostly with the two first aspects. One of the main emphases in the discussion has been the technique of handing down the traditions through generations, though this cannot be separated from the literary tradition itself. The concern of this article will then be with this technique, the transmission.

Elusive, labile and constant in Patti Smith’s literary work

Tekstualia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (53) ◽  
pp. 115-146
Author(s):  
Dawid Maria Osiński
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The Face ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
European Modernism

The article analyzes the literary work of Patti Smith, an American singer-songwriter, poet (but not poetess) and visual artist, with a focus on the issues of historical, sociological, political, cultural and religious dialogue in her poetry. Dialogism, in turn, is a key aspect of intertextual creativity. The article examines the intersections of Smith’s lyrical and autobiographical writing with art, culture, religion and philosophy, for example her references to literary traditions (European modernism), art (impressionism and pop-cultural vanguard), religion (mysticism) and architecture (artefacts). Smith’s poetry raises questions about human identity, the meaning of loneliness, individual human possibilities in the face of history and politics. Diverse literary forms to be found in Smith’s output are referred to so as to account for the psychological and literary relevance of her achievement.

Cultural Practices and Beliefs of Indigenous People in Dumingag, Zamboanga Del Sur

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melrose A. Sali-Ot ◽  
Kent G. Suarez ◽  
Gerome O. Villarmino
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Root Crops ◽  
Special Skill ◽  
Long Time

This study was conducted to determine the demographic characteristics, culture practices and beliefs of Subanen people in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. Triangulation method was utilized using direct participatory observational approach, informal or indepth interview and a focus group discussion. The study found out that majority of the Subanens’ educational attainment are elementary level, and farming is their source of income. Most of their houses were made of light materials. Subanens had several instruments and dances which are played and performed during gatherings and special occasions. They ate vegetables, root crops, and aquatic foods to survive. They served/offered Pangasi (native wine) during ceremonial celebrations, gatherings and rituals. Their special skill was making of native products. The Gukom or Timuay was the highly respected leader of the tribal group and was empowered to lead ceremonies and mediate or settle tribal problems and disputes. The Shaman (Suruhano) was also respected because of his capability to cure illness. He could see and talk with the supernatural beings. Subanens manifested many differences in terms of rituals and ceremonial celebrations. They had unique beliefs that were originated from their ancestors and had been preserved for a long time.   Keywords - Cultural practices and beliefs, indigenous people, Subanen, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur

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