Oral Traditions
Mostrando 13-18 de 18 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. A grande Arca de Jesus a Mateus: fotografias e instalação. Um estudo do imaginário de presépios atuais na Chapada Diamantina.
The Present work describes the poetics that investigate representations of the Nativity scene nowadays at Chapada Diamantina, State of Bahia, emphasizing the process of making these Christmas sceneries. With a social-comprehensive approach, the object was investigated based on the aesthetics of the visible, coming to the imaginary of the subject to the creat
Publicado em: 2006
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14. Hybridity and simultaneous in the novel The famished road, by Ben Okri / Hibridismo e simultaneidade no romance The famished road, de Ben Okri
In the novel The Famished Road (1991) Nigerian author Ben Okri gives a new dimension to the spirit child or abikus image, which is a recurrent motif among the Yoruba and many other cultures from West Africa. The abiku is a characteristic subject of the African oral narrative and is also present in some African literature in English as the abiku is part of th
Publicado em: 2006
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15. Mapeamento urbanístico: a materialidade da dimensão intangível do patrimônio cultural urbano
The concept of heritage, as well as culture, hás been enlarged, starting new questions about the preservation and comprehension. Currently the term culture heritage goes far the original sense of material goods. It also has now a collective foundation and an untouchably substrate: the denominated immaterial or intangible cultural heritage, that includes the
Publicado em: 2005
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16. No giro do rosário: dança e memória corporal na Comunidade dos Arturos / In Rosarios gyrus: dance and body memory in Arturos community
The aim of this work is to investigate a subtle passage from the oral to the body memory within the Congado ritual of the Arturos community, situated in the city of Contagem, near Belo Horizonte, in the State of Minas Gerais. The main characteristic of the community is that it has succeeded in keeping its traditions which have been transmitted from one gener
Publicado em: 2003
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17. African-American culture and AIDS prevention. From barrier to ally.
African Americans make up an increasing proportion of persons with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). I identify and describe cultural elements such as oral traditions, multiple naming, a collective identity, extended families, and sexuality influenced by myth and exaggeration that condition African Americans' reactions to AIDS prevention. I also
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18. Y-Chromosomal DNA Variation in Pakistan
Eighteen binary polymorphisms and 16 multiallelic, short-tandem-repeat (STR) loci from the nonrecombining portion of the human Y chromosome were typed in 718 male subjects belonging to 12 ethnic groups of Pakistan. These identified 11 stable haplogroups and 503 combination binary marker/STR haplotypes. Haplogroup frequencies were generally similar to those i
The American Society of Human Genetics.