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Prince Sobur
The Story of Prince Sobur is an Indian fairy tale. It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named ''Sobur'' (Arabic: "Patience"), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan. The story contains similarities to the European (French) fairy tale ''The Blue Bird''. Summary In a version of the story collected from Bengal, by Lal Behari Dey, ''The Story of Prince Sobur'', the story begins with a question of the father (a merchant, in this) to his seven daughters: "By whose fortune do they get their living?". The youngest answers that her living is by her own fortune. Her father expels her from home and she has to live in the jungle. After a while, the seventh daughter becomes rich and shares her wealth with her father. The merchant has to travel abroad, but his ship does not move. He then remembers he forgot to ask his seventh daughter what to bring her. He does and she says: "Sobur" ("wait"). He takes it to mean a thing named Sobur, and goes on his journe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance (love), romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shafi Aqeel
Shafi Aqeel (1930 – 6 September 2013) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, poet, art critic and translator. He had edited and co-edited a number of magazines, and contributed columns on art and literature to the national Urdu language newspaper ''Daily Jang''. Education and early life Shafi Aqeel was born in 1930, close to Saddar Bazaar, Lahore. Aqeel did not have formal education, learning to read the Quran at mosque. About his early life, he said, "Poverty is nothing to abhor or be ashamed of. Rather, it may work as a stimulus. I think if I hadn't been poor, I wouldn't have achieved what I have." Aqeel served in the National Guard. While working for the guards, Aqeel was witness to extreme scenes of poverty including the spread of cholera amongst migrants. Aqeel received no pay and even had to bring food from home. In later years, he completed the Munshi-Fazil and Adeeb-Fazil exams. Writing career His first article appeared in the ''Zamindar'' newspaper in 1947, and he cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stith Thompson
Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature'', a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Biography Early life Stith Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky, on March 7, 1885 the son of John Warden and Eliza (McClaskey). Thompson moved with his family to Indianapolis at the age of twelve and attended Butler University from 1903 to 1905 before he obtained his BA degree from University of Wisconsin in 1909 (his undergraduate thesis was titled, 'The Return from the Dead in Popular Tales and Ballads'). For the next two years he taught at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, during which time he learned Norwegian from lumberjacks. He earned his master's degree in English literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Aarne
Antti Amatus Aarne (December 5, 1867 in Pori – February 2, 1925 in Helsinki) was a Finnish folklorist. Background Antti was a student of Kaarle Krohn, the son of the folklorist Julius Krohn. He further developed their historic-geographic method of comparative folkloristics, and developed the initial version of what became the Aarne–Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910 and extended by Stith Thompson first in 1927 and again in 1961. Early in 1925, Aarne died in Helsinki (Finland) where he had been a lecturer at the University since 1911 and where he had held a position as Professor extraordinarius Academic ranks in Germany are the titles, relative importance and power of professors, researchers, and administrative personnel held in academia. Overview Appointment grades * (Pay grade: ''W3'' or ''W2'') * (''W3'') * (''W2'') * (''W2'', ... since 1922. References * External links * Academic personnel of the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Polívka (linguist)
Jiří Polívka (6 March 1858 in Enns – 21 March 1933 in Prague) was a Czech linguist, slavist, literary historian and folklorist. He was a disciple of Jan Gebauer. In 1895 he was appointed professor at Charles University in Prague. He became a corresponding member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901). He was a supporter of Theodor Benfey’s migration theory. His major work was the collection ''Slavic Tales'' (1932) and studies about Slavic dialectology. Polívka is interred at the Vinohrady Cemetery Vinohrady Cemetery ( cs, Vinohradský hřbitov) is a large cemetery in Vinohrady in Prague 10 which contains Strašnice Crematorium. It is the second largest cemetery in Prague and is registered in the state list of cultural monuments. The remain ... in Prague. References Literature * HLÔŠKOVÁ, Hana – ZELENKOVÁ, Anna (Eds.): ''Slavista Jiří Polívka v kontexte literatúry a folklóru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Bolte
Johannes Bolte (11 February 1858 – 25 July 1937) was a German folklorist. A prolific writer, he wrote over 1,400 publications, including monographs, articles, notes and book reviews. Works * ''Zeugnisse zur Geschichte unserer Kinderspiele'', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 19 (1909), pp. 381-414 * (with Georg Polívka) Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm', 5 vols, 1913-32 References Further reading * Fritz Boehm, 'Johannes Bolte: Sein Leben und sein volkskundliches Werk', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 46 (1936-37), pp.1-15 * Walter Anderson, ''Johannes Bolte: Ein Nachruf'', Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1939. FF Communications 124. * Fritz Boehm, 'Bolte-Bibliographie', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 42 (1932) pp.1-68 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolte, Johannes 1858 births 1937 deaths German folklorists Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creolization
Creolization is the process through which creole languages and cultures emerge. Creolization was first used by linguists to explain how contact languages become creole languages, but now scholars in other social sciences use the term to describe new cultural expressions brought about by contact between societies and relocated peoples. Creolization is traditionally used to refer to the Caribbean, although it is not exclusive to the Caribbean and some scholars use the term to represent other diasporas. Furthermore, creolization occurs when participants select cultural elements that may become part of or inherited culture. Sociologist Robin Cohen writes that creolization occurs when “participants select particular elements from incoming or inherited cultures, endow these with meanings different from those they possessed in the original cultures, and then creatively merge these to create new varieties that supersede the prior forms.” Beginning According to Charles Stewart, the conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal (25 December 1908 – 18 August 1977) was a Mauritian politician and one of the leading figures in the independence movement. Early life Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was born in Tyack in 1908. He had two brothers Basdeo and Soogrim. Education and career At the Young Men's Hindu Aided Primary School (Port Louis) he acquired his primary education. He passed his Teacher's Examination and worked as Primary School Teacher from 1923 to 1945. Political career In 1946, Sookdeo Bissoondoyal left the teaching profession to join his elder brother Basdeo's movement Jan Andolan. Sookdeo become active in politics and was elected to the Legislative Council in the Grand Port- Savanne constituency in the August 1948 elections. He was re-elected in 1953 within the same constituency. On 13 April 1958 he founded a political party, the Independent Forward Bloc (IFB). He was re-elected in the Rose-Belle Constituency No.21 in the 1959 elections at a time when there were 40 constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, along with nearby Réunion (a French overseas department), are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where most of the population is concentrated, hosts the capital and largest city, Port Louis. The country spans and has an exclusive economic zone covering . Arab sailors were the first to discover the uninhabited island, around 975, and they called it ''Dina Arobi''. The earliest discovery was in 1507 by Portuguese sailors, who otherwise took little interest in the islands. The Dutch took possession in 1598, establishing a succession of short-lived settlements over a period of about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayotte
Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is located in the northern part of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeastern Africa, between Northwestern Madagascar and Northeastern Mozambique. Mayotte consists of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), as well as several islets around these two. Mayotte is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for immigration. Mayotte's land area is and, with its 299,348 people according to January 2022 official estimates, is very densely populated at 800 inhabitants per km2 (2,073 per sq mi). The biggest city and prefecture is Mamoudzou on Grande-Terre. The Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport is located on the neighbouring is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swahili Language
Swahili, also known by its local name , is the native language of the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent litoral islands). It is a Bantu language, though Swahili has borrowed a number of words from foreign languages, particularly Arabic, but also words from Portuguese, English and German. Around forty percent of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language ( , a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coast'). The loanwords date from the era of contact between Arab slave traders and the Bantu inhabitants of the east coast of Africa, which was also the time period when Swahili emerged as a lingua franca in the region. The number of Swahili speakers, be they native or second-language speakers, is estimated to be approximately 200 million. Due to concerted efforts by the government of Tanzania, Swahili is one of three official languages (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
