Monthly Archives: November 2022
Aesthetics of Konkomba folktales
The issue of library catalogues and classification We started the session by discussing this question: In which category can we sort Konkomba folktales? We watched a video of one such folktale. The storyteller uses gestures, imitates sounds, sings alone and … Continue reading
The Homestretch of our TEI Introduction
Last week we finished our introduction to TEI and started our group work of this semester. TEI Introduction III For the TEI part of the class we dealt with common mishaps that occurred in our TEI documents of the folktale … Continue reading
Guest Lecture
As translators, folklorists, literary scholars and academics, we continue to grapple with documeting, translating and studying indigenous orature – be it their textual, oral and/or performance aspects. In the context of our seminar, Demarginalising Orature: Translating Minor Forms into the … Continue reading
[Addendum] Folktales, language and culture
Introduction Hello everyone! This blog entry was meant to be published a while ago – sorry for the delay! Luckily, Anne also published a blog entry on that lesson of the “Demarginalising Orature – Translating minor forms into the digital … Continue reading