Monthly Archives: October 2022
Folktales: On the Preservation of Culture and Language
In our last session in the course “Demarginalising Orature – Translating minor forms into the digital age” we talked a lot about culture and language, their relation to folktales, and also how important folktales are in order to preserve them. … Continue reading
Coding as a Humanist -Encoding a Konkomba Folktale in XML
As part of the course “Demarginalising orature – Translating minor forms into the digital age” our goal was to transcribe and digitalize some of the folktales that are shared among the Konkomba people as an oral tradition to make them … Continue reading
Visual Narratives – Subtitling a Recording of a Konkomba Folktale
When reading folktales that have rarely been written down before, it is important to keep their origin in mind. Konkomba folktales have been passed on orally for a long time and have only recently been written down and translated from … Continue reading
Blog Entry Guide
Welcome to our student blog entry section. You may enter your blog entry/ies here. Please walk your readers through the various stages of your work while simultaneously outlining the challenges you encountered, how you navigated those challenges, and any noteworthy … Continue reading
Our BLOG
You may enter all your blog entries here. This blog is a platform for sharing students‘ works or projects relating to our „Demarginalising Orature“ course/project. It is also a platform for information and exchange on research into translations of minor forms. … Continue reading