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Tales are told by specialists . 2 ) Nearly all the people who tell and listen to these tales belong to the lower or lowest strata of traditional communities . 3 ) Fairy tales are told for and by adults ( children do not form a ...
Tales are told by specialists . 2 ) Nearly all the people who tell and listen to these tales belong to the lower or lowest strata of traditional communities . 3 ) Fairy tales are told for and by adults ( children do not form a ...
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Different tales are told in different situations and different motifs are used according to the situation . For instance , Alan Dundes's study of what he calls " allomotifs " showed that in traditional lore decapitation is equivalent to ...
Different tales are told in different situations and different motifs are used according to the situation . For instance , Alan Dundes's study of what he calls " allomotifs " showed that in traditional lore decapitation is equivalent to ...
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It is remarkable that in the Afghan tradition the tales about women dressing and acting like men were mainly told by male narrators.47 Mills also refers to a few tales containing gender shifts per se , and these were all told by male ...
It is remarkable that in the Afghan tradition the tales about women dressing and acting like men were mainly told by male narrators.47 Mills also refers to a few tales containing gender shifts per se , and these were all told by male ...
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Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folktales | 21 |
a question of | 43 |
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| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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