Sentences with phrase «oral histories and traditions»

If the Zuni, the Laguna, or the Acoma are descendants of the conquerors, where are the oral histories and traditions of fierce fighters and glorious victories?

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At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

Throughout history, people have learned by oral tradition and from the stories of others.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

The history was there, in the oral traditions of Jesus» life and death; and the experience was equally real, and could now be shared anywhere and by anyone, by Saul the persecutor, by Gentile centurions and treasurers and simple men of Cyprus and Cyrene and Antioch, by pagan Galatians, and by cosmopolitan Corinthians and Romans — Jews and Greeks, bond and free.

That is was also distinctly possible that gathered fragmented written sources as well as oral traditions regarding the laws of Moses and histories of the kings of Israel and Judah coming from prior to Babylonian captivity were then secured and placed into a combined written sources from which what we know as the Books of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testament.

They have created their own ways of communication, ranging from stories in oral traditions to folk art and music, from popular histories to religious and cultural sysmbolism.

And oral history tradition credits McMahon with a central role in popularizing the species throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, where the potted pepper plants serves as a winter table ornament or as windowsill plants.

Difficult to know whether that was based on earlier oral tradition - and even then if it was story or history.

In her master's thesis, Adams traced the history of the petroglyphs by comparing them to portable artifacts with secure dates, but she was equally interested in modern native people's reactions to the petroglyphs and oral traditions about how their ancestors had created them.

It was work that considered the legacy of oral traditions, social history and colonization, and the impact of a culture and peoples dispossessed of historic roots and land.

They are storytellers, writers, poets, musicians, quilters, doll makers, puppeteers, teachers, librarians and more, who seek to use the African oral tradition to share their cultural heritage, history and social values from one generation to another.

In this sense, the jokes of Richard Prince comment on a society built around oral tradition: legends become history, history becomes stories and stories become rumors and jokes.

Jonas's multidisciplinary works cut across a range of influences and concerns spanning from the environment, to concepts of gender, to Japanese Noh and Kabuki theater, Modernist film, folk traditions and oral histories, poetry and literature.

It mixes scientific history with creation stories belonging to religious (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, etc.), hermetic (Kabbalah, Freemasonry, etc.), and oral (Dogon, Inuit, Navajo, etc.) traditions in a joyous syncretism.

Laughter in Hell is an expansion of her long - running interest in traditions of oral history, and more profoundly, the performative transmission of knowledge across generations.

For over 17 years, Sedira has explored notions of family, tradition, oral history, migration and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge.

Kanak tradition was not entirely oral, if, as suggested in the catalogue, these engravings recorded histories of clan alliances and significant events, perhaps serving as aide - mémoires to orators.

Evoking African oral traditions and their power to carry on the spoken word, the artist's work gives voice to silenced narratives with the aim of rewriting and retelling a history that has been suppressed or disregarded.

Culture, religion and language rights are contained in articles 11 - 13 of the Declaration: right to practice and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs, right to practice and develop their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; right to revitalise, use, develop, and transmit their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures; and right to interpretation for political, legal and administrative proceedings where necessary.