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Jogarni Maria Marta, Nina Queena Hadi Putri

This study aims to reveal the image of women in the Tilo Enggau folktale from the Dayak Kenyah community as a symbolic, spiritual and socio-cultural discourse. This study uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques in the form of in-depth interviews with informants from the Dayak Kenyah community and documentation of unpublished folklore texts as objects of study. The data were analyzed using three feminist perspectives: radical feminism, cultural feminism and ecofeminism. The results of the study show that the female characters in the story appear as independent figures who reject the norms of marriage, experience supernatural pregnancies and give birth to descendants from heaven. The female characters in this story not only carry out biological functions, but also represent strong socio-cultural constructions. Women are the center of lineage and have symbolic authority as guardians of social harmony. This representation is emphasized through the sacred ancestral speech "ayen nei kini ni, ameq su yaq alaq tilo enggau labok ni" which means "don't come here because we are the grandchildren of the one who took tilo enggau fell," as a symbol of women's authority over lineage and communal harmony.

Mehmet SÖYLEMEZ

This study investigates the musical and cultural continuities among Turkish-speaking Anatolian Greeks who were resettled in Greece following the 1923 Greco–Turkish Population Exchange. It aims to understand how these displaced communities have preserved, transformed, and reinterpreted their Anatolian musical heritage as part of their collective memory and identity reconstruction processes. The research adopts a qualitative ethnomusicological methodology, combining fieldwork, oral history, and archival analysis. Field studies conducted between 2018 and 2025 in more than seventy villages—particularly in Ioannina, Western Macedonia, and Eastern Thrace—include in-depth interviews, participant observations, and live musical recordings. These empirical materials are complemented by an extensive literature review of historical sources, musical manuscripts, and previous scholarship on migration, identity, and cultural hybridity. The theoretical framework draws on Stuart Hall’s cultural identity theory, Homi Bhabha’s concept of the “third space”, and Berry’s acculturation model, situating music as both a medium of resistance and a repository of memory. Analysis of early musical publications such as Mousikon Apanthisma (1856–1873) reveals that Turkish-speaking communities historically maintained a hybrid repertoire encompassing Turkish, Greek, and Byzantine elements. Findings demonstrate that music functions as a transgenerational mechanism of cultural continuity: while younger generations predominantly use Greek in daily life, Turkish persists through song, ritual, and communal gatherings. This sustained musical bilingualism reflects an enduring emotional geography connecting Anatolia and Greece. Ultimately, the study concludes that the legacy of Anatolian culture survives in Greece as a living soundscape—an evolving synthesis of displacement, memory, and hybridity rather than a static remnant of the past.

William Lamb, Natasha Sumner, Gordon Wells

Beyond the intricacies of audio recording equipment and the electric typewriter, technology hasn’t always been a big part of Scottish Studies. The past few decades, however, have witnessed the growing impact that digital technologies are having on our field. To get a sense of what lies ahead, this essay examines the efforts of three scholars involved in transforming access to source materials and reshaping the terms of scholarly enquiry

V Sreekala, Kamal Nayan Dwivedi, R Rajesh

Background: Coconut shell is an inexpensive, easily available, and usually discarded material from the plant source Cocos nucifera Linn. belonging to the Arecaceae family. The internal administration of water boiled with endocarp of coconut fruit (coconut shell) is used as a folklore remedy in Kerala for treating metabolic disorders. This folklore claim has to be scientifically validated by comprehensive chemical profiling of coconut (Cocos nucifera Linn.) shell. Aim: The present study was designed to conduct a systematic screening of coconut shell for identification of its bioactive secondary metabolites and validation of its analogous pharmacotherapeutic potentials. Materials and Methods: The present research work is focused on the screening of dried ripe coconut (Cocos nucifera Linn.) shell for its bioactive secondary metabolites based on microscopic, histochemical, and phytochemical studies. Results: Characteristic presence of thin-walled fibers and fibrosclereids were observed in the powder microscopy of coconut shell. Histochemical studies were suggestive of the presence of lignified cells and tannins in the test drug. Further phytochemical studies of Cocos nucifera Linn. ascertained that the endocarp is abounded with diverse bioactive phytoconstituents like flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols, steroids, tannins, and saponins which possess varied antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity, and antidiabetic activities. Conclusion: The study outcome suggests coconut shell as a novel natural source of various bioactive secondary metabolites and these findings can be integrated for further researches exploring the comprehensive pharmacotherapeutic prospective of the test drug.

Zugura Yaganurovna Rakhmatullina, Gulnur Ravilovna Khusainova

In Bashkir studies, women's national jewelry has been considered in the works of several researchers. However, analysis of the scientific literature and specialized sources has shown a lack of scientific research and publications on the role of national women's jewelry in the life of modern people. A review of the available information about women's jewelry can serve as a basis for further in-depth research in this area. The purpose of this article is to introduce readers to Bashkir women's jewelry, its philosophy and spiritual meaning, to emphasize its role and place in modern life. Familiarizing the reader with the aesthetic and artistic traditions of Bashkir people makes this study relevant for the present and fills a gap in the research of women's jewelry as elements of Bashkir material culture and its reflection in the folklore of the people. Based on folklore and ethnographic materials related to women's clothing, jewelry, taken from published and unpublished field notes of the authors, this article aims to show the rich history of Bashkir women's jewelry from ancient times to the present day and determine its place in modern Bashkir culture. The analytical approach used for this study revealed the frequent mention of national ornaments in folklore, for example, in Bashkir fairy tales, songs and epics, emphasizing their aesthetic and social functions. Examples taken from various genres of Bashkir folklore illustrate the authors' observations about the spiritual meanings and aesthetic value of women's jewelry in the life of a Bashkir woman, and which have not lost their significance for contemporaries.

Mirgaleev I.M., Fazlutdinov I.I., Zakirova I.G.

The purpose of the study: The work is part of the authors’ research aimed at preparing a collection dedicated to the Tatar versions of the “Idegey”epos. It is aimed at reviewing and systematizing archival and published versions of the Tatar version of the dastan, “Idegey”, introducing unexplored variants into scientific circulation, compiling a complete list of texts, and providing their structural and textual analysis. Research materials: Archival and published versions of the Tatar dastan of “Idegey”. Information from literary and historical sources, along with scientific research, was used. The works of famous folklorists are involved, including studies on the dastan “Idegey” by famous folklorists Nigmat Hakim and Naki Isanbet. The scientific novelty of the study is due to the fact that on the basis of the study of archival materials, a review of all the variants known to us and a comparative analysis of individual episodes and motives were made. Based on the analysis, the changes to which the variants were subjected, the transformation of individual motifs, and all kinds of variations of the latter, the degree of preservation of dastan records from different times was revealed. The results of the study and its scientific novelty: the paper proves that the Tatar versions of the dastan about Idegey and Toktamysh were widely spread among the Tatars of the Volga-Urals, western Siberia, and the Crimea as is evidenced by the wide variability of the works. However, the main part of the variants came to us fragmentarily, in a strongly truncated form, and by the time they were fixed, with the exception of the variants recorded by V.V. Radlov and N. Hakim, the named genre ceased to exist in a living natural form. Despite this, the Tatar versions of the dastan “Idegey”, unlike the other Turkic versions which came through the works of ethnographers and historians, are undoubtedly more extensive and numerous, recorded in the original version or preserved in manuscripts in the Tatar language.

Maila Huda Shofyana, Madya Giri Aditama, Harliyandri Iqbal Nugroho et al.

The project-Based Learning (PjBL) method is the recommended method to be applied in the Merdeka Belajar curriculum. The application of Proj-BL based on local wisdom allows students to freely express and maximize creativity in doing assignments and also as a medium for cultural preservation and the introduction of various kinds of local wisdom, as well as a socialization event in the environment. It is qualitative research with the purpose is to analyze the local wisdom-based Project Based Learning (PjBL) teaching method applied by English teachers at SMA and SMK levels in Batang Regency in post-pandemic learning in the Merdeka Belajar curriculum. The objects of this study are 20 English teachers in Batang regency. The result shows that the application of PjBL based on local wisdom by teachers is commonly used in culture, Tourism, peoples, local industry, entrepreneurship, folklore, and myth scopes. This study reveals several examples of the application PjBl in Language Learning, which can be referenced for readers and teachers. It is also found that this method can develop students’ soft skills such as sympathy, empathy, self-confidence, problem-solving, and teamwork; also this method can maximize students' & teachers’ competencies in learning

Ewa Klęczaj-Siara

Afroamerykańska literatura dziecięca zawsze miała charakter polityczny. Jej głównym celem jest promowanie pozytywnego wizerunku czarnoskórej społeczności w USA, a także kształtowanie tożsamości rasowej młodych czytelników. Dla wielu czarnoskórych autorów jedzenie stało się metaforą więzi kulturowych i emocjonalnych, będących źródłem optymizmu, dumy z przynależności do rasy czarnych i chęci walki z nierównościami społecznymi. Celem artykułu jest ukazanie funkcji politycznych i społecznych jedzenia w społecznościach afroamerykańskich na przykładzie wybranych książek obrazkowych czarnoskórych twórców, m.in. Nikki Giovanni, Faith Ringgold, Bryan Collier i Oge Mora. Główną część artykułu stanowi analiza relacji między narracją słowną a niezwykle barwnymi ilustracjami znanych amerykańskich artystów ukazujących domowe przestrzenie, w których jedzenie wyraża niepowtarzalność kultury afroamerykańskiej.

Monika Balikienė, Jurgita Dečiunienė, Vytautas Navickas

The paper is based on anonymous questionnaire surveys and interviews of women. One sample involved 423 young women (mean age: 21.04) surveyed by means of an anonymous questionnaire in 2016–2018. The survey produced a collection of 896 words and phrases used to denote menstruation. These lexical finds may be regarded as euphemisms/dysphemisms for taboo words representing an integral part of a secret language shared by women. Another sample involved 208 significantly older women (mean age: 73.66) interviewed individually in 2005–2012. The interviewing produced 117 lexical substituted for menstruation. This research is a part of a wider inquiry into the ways in which everyday practice, experience and knowledge affect the social and cultural constructions of menstruation. Seeking to record the widest possible range of popular knowledge and discourse about menstruation, including menstrual beliefs and practices, we shall try to interpret these data, focusing on how everyday experience, everyday knowledge, and encrypted language can shape behaviour, experience, and attitudes of contemporary people.

Tekleyes B, Huluka SA, Wondu K et al.

Bezu Tekleyes,1 Solomon Assefa Huluka,1 Kebede Wondu,2 Yohannes Tsegyie Wondmkun1 1Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2Department of Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Yohannes Tsegyie WondmkunDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Churchill Avenue P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEmail yonitse2015@gmail.comBackground: Zehneria scabra is one of the folklore plants of Ethiopia frequently used for external wound treatment in humans. Nevertheless, pharmacological investigations have not been performed to substantiate activity of the plant extract in wound healing. Hence, this study attempted to explore the activity of leaf extract of Z. scabra in wound healing using a mice model.Materials and Methods: The air-dried leaf from Z. scabra was pulverized and extracted with 80% methanol and prepared with 5% and 10% extract ointments. An acute dermal toxicity study of the extract was conducted in female mice by observing the signs of toxicity. Then 5% and 10% (w/w) ointments of the extract were applied topically to investigate their wound healing activity in incision and excision wound models. Parameters such as wound contraction, period of epithelialization, and tensile strength were determined.Results: Upon the application of 10% w/w extract ointment, no signs of dermal toxicity were observed in mice. Both 5% and 10% (w/w) extract ointment formulations increased percentage wound contraction and tensile strength, and shortened the epithelialization period.Conclusion: The findings of this study collectively showed that the leaf extract of Z. scabra possessed significant wound healing activity, upholding the folkloric use of the experimental plant.Keywords: Zehneria scabra, wound healing activity, incision model, excision model

Galina M. Zaseeva, Elena A. Kondakova

Der Aufsatz thematisiert das Verstehen fremdsprachiger Texte als eine der Schlüsselkompetenzen in der Germanisten-Ausbildung. Es wird sprachlichen Signalen nachgegangen, die der Text dem Rezipienten zur Verfügung stellt, um ihm den Zugang zu Textsinnen zu gewähren. Der zu untersuchende didaktisch angelegte Schwerpunkt ist für die Lehre von fremden Sprachen und Kulturen von großer Relevanz und besagt, dass Textverstehen im Fremdsprachenunterricht konsequent geschult werden soll. Im Aufsatz wird die interpretativ angelegte Herangehensweise an Texte mit impliziten Informationen zur Diskussion gestellt und das methodisch-didaktische Verfahren für Steuerung der rezeptiven Vorgänge im Deutschunterricht für Anfänger-vorgeschlagen. Eines solcher Zeichen, die verifizierbare Lesarten, von Studierenden aufgestellt, geltend macht, sind Sprichwörter als komplexe linguistische Entität und Träger kulturell relevanter Informationen. Am Beispiel der deutschen Volksmärchen in Bearbeitung von E. M. Arndt („Halt den Mittelweg!“), von den Brüdern Grimm („Der Nagel“) sowie von L. Bechstein („Bruder Sparer und Bruder Vertuer“) wird das textanalytische Verfahren vorgeführt, indem sich der Rezipient auf die in Märchen-Texte eingebetteten Sprichwörter in der Funktion des kognitiven “Schlüssels” stützt. Hierzu treten Sprichwörter als „Behälter“ soziokulturellen Wissens um ethische Normen und Wertvorstellungen auf. Im Bewusstsein des Rezipienten als mentale Einheiten gespeichert, werden die Sprichwörter vom ihm auf der formal-grammatischen und lexikalisch-semantischen Ebene mit Propositionen des Märchens als einer belehrenden Gattung in Korrelation gebracht. Dadurch wird Studierenden der Zugang zu verschlüsselten Botschaften gebahnt. Die vorgenommene Untersuchung wurde anhand der Methode der linguistischen Analyse, der Content-Analyse, der analytisch-hermeneutischen Methode und der Methode unausgelesener Stichprobe bei der Datenerhebung durchgeführt. Im Aufsatz wird ein Verfahren der linguokognitiven Analyse des Märchens als Genre der Folklore mit moralisierendem Hintergrund vorgeschlagen. Des Weiteren folgen didaktische Empfehlungen zur Wahl der Märchen-Texte zwecks deren Interpretation unter Einbezug der Sprichwörter und mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Sprachniveaus der Studierenden.

Roberto Evangelista

This essay deals with the work of Ernesto De Martino (focusing on the essays Morte e pianto rituale and La terra del rimorso) in order to investigate the persistence of archaic rituality in contemporary civilization. In particular, a difference emerges between the rites that remain useful to overcome some critical situations, and those which result worthless, since they are deprived of their ancient contents. By these accounts, culture emerges as a "space" in which the internal conflict in society is reproduced, by questioning the researcher and the anthropologist about the nature of folklore and the urgency for society to evolve toward greater equity and social justice.

Bożena Kaczmarczyk-Gwóźdź

Recenzja książki: Folklor dziecięcy – między tradycją a współczesnością, pod red. T. Smolińskiej, Małopolskie Centrum Kultury SOKÓŁ, Nowy Sącz 2018, ss. 160.

Mare Kõiva, Kristina Muhu

The paper compares changes in the celebration of holidays in the period from 1992 to 2018. The data originate from large Estonian children’s lore corpora from 1992, 2007, and 2018. The first collections are preserved at the Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum (ELM) in Tartu, Estonia, and the 2018 collection as well as the digitized data of the earlier campaigns are available in the digital archives EFITA – the Research Archives of the Department of Folkloristics of the ELM. The calendar corpus allows us to monitor changes in the structure and essence of folk/ethnographic/local traditions, feasts celebrated at home, church feasts, and public holidays at school. The authors indicate that endeavours to establish national public holidays to accompany traditional agrarian ones began in the early 20th century. During the 20th century, the system of holidays changed three times (1918, 1940, 1991) due to political changes: the establishment of an independent state in Estonia, the loss of independence and continuation as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, and restoration of independence in 1991. In addition to state, church, and folk holidays different ways to introduce novel international holidays (Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween, Mother Tongue Day), and a search for new forms of celebration were also noteworthy during this period. As students, youngsters participate in the celebrations of their school as well as in the celebrations of public holidays, and at the same time they are involved in maintaining their family traditions.

S. Naithani

This chapter is about the moment of the fall of the Soviet Union in the Baltic countries and role of folksongs therein. It carries on to discuss how folklore has again been at the centre of resurgence of national and cultural identity.

Lizawati Lizawati

The objectives of the study were to describe the values contained in Tan Nunggal and Bujang Nadi Dare Nandong folklore in Sambas district of West Kalimantan. Folklore Tan Nunggal and Bujang Nadi Dare Nandong live and thrive in Sambas society. Through folklore acquisition of information based on oral culture can create literary generation. Sensitivity and critical power in the surrounding environment are preferred as a bridge to the literary generation, which is a generation that has critical thinking skills on all information to prevent emotional reactions. This culture is what most Indonesians do not seem to have. The research method used qualitative descriptive method with data analysis technique using interactive analysis technique that is with steps, that is data reduction, display data, and conclusion drawing / verification. The researchers used a hermeneutic approach. Examination of data validity using theory and source triangulation. The research finds the existence of religious values, social values, and moral values in the folklore Tan Nunggal and Bujang Nadi Dare Nandong. Keywords: folklore, character education, and literary generation

Lalu Fakihuddin

The purpuse of the research is uncovering a through a link between Sasak culture and islamic of perspective Sasak folklore. In addition, reseach in also intended to increase appreciation sasak society, especially academic society. Design used in this research is descriptive-qualitative. This design was chosen becaouse relevance with a gool and data the nature of researcch, that is: (1) the use of documents of a literary work, namely the text of folklore and hikayat  as an object of the study, (2)  the data of this study in tehe form of writing, in the form of sequences interlocking of the text  of myth, folklore, and hikayat the relationship between sasak culture and values of islam, (3) the focus of the research as of as values, and (4) the research process is based on the interpretative. In this kind of methodology research and analyzed with the hermeneutc , wich is to interpret a texs... so they can understand a lot of people at the dipperent priod. Data in the study are collected by a documentation. The key instrument to this research  is a researcher. The result of the research, namely Sasak culture, especially the folklore, possesses remarkably subtle hints of islam,  the fact presented indicated that the teachins of islam through Sasak culture (through myte, folklore, and hikayat), it is also a intrnalisasion the teaching of islam or islamis values. It is of course not limited to the problems that has been presented, but also appear in a form of Sasak cultures, like rudat and and nyair tradistions. Keywords: relasion; Sasak culture; Islam; oral folklor.

T. Basangova, A. Burykin

The authors give the brief characteristics of the electronic library of fairy tales. The given product represents a collection of electronic texts of fairy tales of the peoples of the world grouped on regions. The electronic collection of fairy tales allows to conduct search of characters and the subjects determining motives and plots of fairy tales that is very convenient for comparative and typological researches of various narrative genres.

Válka Miroslav, Pospíšilová Jana

Modern Czech and Slovak ethnology was constituted by Karel Chotek (1881-1967) and Drahomíra Stránská (1899-1964), among others, with a notable contribution by geographer Jiří Král (1893-1975). Methodological basis for their research was the anthropogeographic method of Jovan Cvijić and inspiration by his works. In some countries this research orientation was aimed at the creation of the ethnographic atlas. In former Czechoslovakia preliminary activities were organized by D. Stránská, but political circumstances of that time prevented the finalization of the atlas. Her successors, associates of the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, did not finalize this endeavor either, since the activities on the Ethnographic atlas were removed from the program of basic scientific research after 1970 (during the period of the so-called „normalization“ of political relations). Activities on the Ethnographic atlas were revived after 1989 at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with the concept which was, naturally, a matter of discussions and controversies.

E. Francis