Organisation et contrôle de l’espace dans l’aire culturelle aja-fon (Sud-Togo et Bénin – XVIIe-XIXe siècle) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…Human migrations and the foundation of new villages led people to reckon with their environment, with the new territory and its occupants, by referring to the religious principles that underlay the social organization of Aja-Tado societies. Oral traditions, toponyms and writings by Europeans provide evidence about how this territory took shape out of a perception of this environment. …”
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L’Affaire Redureau, le crime de Bas-Briacé (1913) : Un meurtrier de 15 ans au cœur des complaintes by Sophie Victorien, Pierre Guillard

“…This persistence of the memory of the horror caused by this gesture is further developed by Pierre Guillard, who draws on the most well-known lament concerning this affair, discovered during a work of harvesting and co-collecting songs from oral traditions undertaken in the late 1980s and early 1990s.…”
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Iwo: A reevaluation of refugee integration, intergroup relations, and the scenography of power in a 19th-century Yoruba city by Akanmu G. Adebayo

“…The paper utilizes published works on urbanization in Africa and oral traditions collected by the author between 1978 and 2018. …”
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Po drugiej stronie słowa: granice języka, który nie jest granicą świata by Bogusław Jasiński

“…The author proves that such use of words not only disentangles them from the traditionally understood communication function but above all refers to the old oral traditions. He points to research on the origin of poetry in pre-literate cultures, where oral transmission was primary, and the poetic record was secondary - because it served only as a way of remembering the text and thus served a mnemonic function. …”
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The Ivory Saltcellars: A contribution to the history of Islamic expansion in Greater Senegambia during the 16th and 17th centuries by Thiago H. Mota

“…The study is based on European written sources, African oral traditions, and African carved ivories owned by the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. …”
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Menjalani Kehidupan di Tengah Malapetaka: Gempa Kerinci 1909 by Padhil Hudaya, Nur Aini Setiawati, Bambang Purwanto

“…The research utilizes colonial government report documents, written records of eyewitnesses, newspaper reports, and oral traditions. Inspired by the concept of "everyday forms of resistance" from James C. …”
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Art as Symbol of Power and Control among the Yorùbá by Kehinde Adepegba, Tolulope O. Sobowale

“…In the course of analysis, oral traditions such as songs, proverbs, etc. were used. …”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. This essay argues that the intransigent relationship between the modernists and the traditionalists persists because the two dominant schools have failed to recognize the need to furnish a paradigm of interaction between their projects. …”
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The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya by R. Muya

“… The Bible was a new phenomenon among African cultures that treasure the oral traditions governing their moral and spiritual life. …”
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Representações interculturais de gênero no romance A república dos sonhos, de Nélida Piñon by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…Brazilian author Nélida Piñon's novel A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) (1984) engages, on the one hand, gender representations of a medieval- inspired Galicia, with its oral traditions, pilgrimages and emigrants. On the other hand, the gender representations in 20th century Brazil provide a highly interest view of female emancipation brought about by feminist movements. …”
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Mountains, Shrines, and Rock Art: Landscape in Ancestral Pueblo culture from the Colorado Plateau, North American Southwest by Radosław Palonka, Kathleen M. O’Meara, Katarzyna M. Ciomek, Zi Xu, Brianna Gooch, Claire Moriarty, Bartosz Foryś

“…Although contemporary Pueblo people live a few hundred kilometres south and southeast of the Mesa Verde region, many of these sites still have a special meaning to them and are mentioned in Puebloan oral traditions, histories, and myths. In the Southwest, other sacred places, including shrines, lakes, and mountains are significant for various Indigenous groups: Apache, Navajo, Ute, and others. …”
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“Setan Makan Babi”: Narasi Woodard dan Masyarakat Muslim di Pesisir Teluk Palu dan Jaringannya Akhir Abad XVIII by Mohammad Nur Ahsan

“…However, from the Datokarama period to the nineteenth century, Islamic historiography appears to be inadequate due to limited access to primary sources dating from the same period as the events studied and the tendency to oral traditions that require critical formulation. This article uses historical methods to reconstruct the Muslim community in the coastal area of Palu Bay based on records from European sailors who had lived in Sulawesi and made voyages through maritime routes connecting the islands in northern Kalimantan to Papua. …”
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The examination of the Tofā Māmāo cultural concept and repositioning it as a theoretical approach to guide Pacific research by Aliitasi Su’a-Tavila, James Mbinta

“…It defines truth through oral traditions which justifies its positioning when doing research. …”
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À propos des modes de construction du territoire en pays jóola : sources écrites, traditions villageoises et matériaux ethnographiques by Odile Journet-Diallo

“…We can try to draw information from: village oral traditions, the topography of shrines, attendance at ceremonies and, too, the marks left on the landscape itself.…”
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The role of folklore in shaping the Leukonese characters: An anthropolinguistic study by Tasnim Lubis, T. Thyrhaya Zein, Amalia Amalia

“…Consequently, language serves as a means to express ideas, thoughts, and experiences, manifested in various oral traditions passed down through generations. These traditions often mirror the characteristic patterns of a community.…”
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Towards the design for a new Bible translation in Sesotho by T. J. Makutoane, J. A. Naudé

“…Users still living in an oral culture are excluded. Continuing oral traditions and indigenous forms of cultural expression were and still are beyond the control of literacy. …”
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Effects of traditional Chinese medicine Zuo-Gui-Wan on gut microbiota in an osteoporotic mouse model by Junjie Li, HaomingYou, Yucheng Hu, Ruxu Li, Tianxin Ouyang, Qiang Ran, Guilong Zhang, Yong Huang

“…Abstract Background The target and mechanism of oral traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been important research directions for a long time. …”
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Identifying [between] Geser and Genghis Khan. Part 1: Contamination of Images in Folklore and Historical Memories of Central and Inner Asia by Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Evgenii V. Nolev

“…The image of demiurge Geser-Genghis is characteristic of South Siberian Turkic mythologies, while the Mongolic oral traditions distinguish between the images but tend to view them as ones with pronounced ties, and basically deify the characters. …”
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A Problem of Perspective: Religions in Africa or African Traditional Religion by Osman Şahin

“…By highlighting these shared phenomena and oral traditions, this reductionist and orientalist perspective has contributed to the perception of African religions as a singular, cohesive entity. …”
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