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Introdução =Vorwort =Introduction
Isabel Cardigos e Ines Köler-Zülch

Gender, culture and folklore
Aili Nenola

Feminism and bluebeard
Rose Lovell-Smith
 
Perspectives on cowgirls, humor and images of the American West
Kristin McAndrews

Gender trouble? On the gender constitution of clergymen's wives
Birgitta Meurlin

Personal narratives on war: a challenge to women's essays and ethnography in Croatia
Renata Jambresic Kirin

Women's and men's storytelling: what is the difference? Some observations in contemporary slovak storytelling communities
Gabriela Kiliánová

The multilingual subaltern: creolization as agency
Lee Haring

The rebellious girl who wants the perfect man: role assignments in folktales of the bulsa in Northern Ghana
Rudiger Schott

Looking for a spouse in mwera folk narratives
Uta Teuster-Jahn

Gender and magic in junkun folktales
Sabine Dinslage and Anne Storch

Recognizing female sexuality: at 313, the maid as mentor in the young man's maturation
Gerald Thomas

Speech and gender: indian versions of the silence wager (at 1351)
Stuart Blackburn

Virgins in brothels: gender and religious ecotypfication
Daniel Boyarin

The wearing and shedding of enchanted shoes
Isabel Cardigos 

NOTAS E RECENSÕES

Marina Warner, No go the Bogeyman. Scaring, lulling and making mock. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.435 pages
Patricia Baubeta

Marvels & tales. Journal of fairy-tale studies. Special issue: Angela Carter and the literary Märchen, vol. 12, nº 1, 1998, 252 pp.
Natividade Pires

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  • Looking for a spouse in mwera folk narratives
    Publication . Reuster-Jahn, Uta
    Folk narratives do reflect on the reality of life of those who tell them, even though it is frequently not rendered in a straightforward but rather in a subtle and sometimes distorted way (cf. Möhlig et al. (eds), 1988; Röhrich, 1964; Simmons, 1961; Steinbrich, 1997). In the rural areas of Africa these aspects of reality are up to now characterised by social prescriptions and cultural rules which put the individual under constraints one can not easily escape. The medium of folk narratives allows for some imaginative freedom in respect to these prescribed ways. This holds especially true in respect to marriage and marital life, where individual needs and desires can easily clash with social rules and thus lead to conflict. The importance of this topic is indicated by the large number of African folk narratives which deal with it. This also applies to the narratives of the Mwera who live as cultivators in the Southeast of the Republic of Tanzania. The Mwera speak a bantu language and they still narrate their folk stories in their villages. The performance of stories – the Mwera call them ndango – predominantly takes place in a family setting, where women, men and to a lesser extend children can act as narrators. Between 1987 and 1991 I recorded some series of ndango in a kind of “induced natural context” (cf. Goldstein, 1964: 80 ff.). Each series comprises a number of narratives by different narrators, women and men, the women being in the majority. Many of the stories are dealing with special problems of marital life, like sterility, unfaithfulness and the difficult relationships with in-laws. But quite a number of stories concentrate on the period preceding marriage, the time of looking for and choosing a spouse. In this article I will focus on these stories.
    1995Journal article Open access Show more
  • Recognizing female sexuality: at 313, the maid as mentor in the young man's maturation
    Publication . Thomas, Gerald
    AT 313, The Girl as Helper in the Hero’s Flight, amongst the longest of Märchen, is also rich with complex symbolism, and requires, for a comprehensive interpretation, a much fuller treatment than can be adequately contained within the prescribed twenty minutes. It is for this reason that I focus principally on one aspect of the tale’s meaning, summarized in the first part of my title, Recognizing Female Sexuality. The second part of my title AT 313, The Maid as Mentor in the Young Man’s Maturation aptly summarizes what I feel would be an appropriate renaming of the tale type, if such a renaming were based uniquely on versions of the tale I or my students have collected from French Newfoundlanders over an almost thirty year period, and if, more pertinently, there was sufficient scholarly agreement on the meaning and function of the tale. In focussing on female sexuality in the tale, however, I wish to stress not only its centrality to an understanding of the tale’s meaning, but also the crucial significance of the relationship between tale interpretation and what Bengt Holbek called “the storytelling community.”
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • Personal narratives on war: a challenge to women's essays and ethnography in Croatia
    Publication . Kirin, Renata Jambresic
    In other words, it is not reference but interactional accomplishment through rhetorically powerful words which is the focus of this analytical perspective (...) These notions are, on the one hand, meaningless (meaning=reference) to the extent that each person or social group can invest them with particular experiences. On the other hand, these notions are also saturated with meaning (meaning=sense) to the extent that there is relatively little disagreement about them as cultural values.
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • Virgins in brothels: gender and religious ecotypfication
    Publication . Boyarin, Daniel
    “Charlotte, we’re Jewish” says Cher in the opening scene of Mermaids, as she passes her adolescent daughter, Wynona Ryder genuflecting ecstatically at her private shrine to St. Perpetua. Charlotte abandons her worship of the martyr with a rather dramatic effect on her nascent sex life. What might it be about a young Christian woman tortured to death in the arena in third century North Africa that would so attract an American Jewish teenager as a model and ego ideal? In this lecture, I will investigate the figure of the virgin girl in both traditions, first as an ego-ideal for men and then as one for women, with startlingly different conclusions to the two analyses.
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • The multilingual subaltern: creolization as agency
    Publication . Haring, Lee
    The very symbolic and social approaches that appear to set women apart and to circumscribe their activities may be used by women as a basis for female solidarity and worth. When men live apart from women, they in fact cannot control them, and unwittingly they may provide them with the symbols and social resources on which to build a society of their own (Rosaldo 1974, 39).
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • Marvels & tales. Journal of fairy-tale studies. Special issue: Angela Carter and the literary Märchen, vol. 12, nº 1, 1998, 252 pp.
    Publication . Pires, Maria da Natividade
    One of de aspects of Marvels and Tales editorial policies is to present studies on fairytales from a multidisciplinar perspective.
    1999Review Open access Show more
  • Gender trouble? On the gender constitution of clergymen's wives
    Publication . Meurling, Birgitta
    When my informant Elisabeth told me: “You have to accept it, otherwise one cracks up”, my first thought was that I here was dealing with a serious kind of “gender trouble” or at minimum a serious kind of marital trouble. This because Elisabeth, on the one hand, claimed to be a “modern”, professional woman with a full-time job and yet, on the other hand, told me that she was subordinated under her husband’s occupation and that she was willing to accept this.
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • Marina Warner, No go the Bogeyman. Scaring, lulling and making mock. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.435 pages
    Publication . Baubeta, Patricia Anne Odber de
    Reviews from Marina Warner, No go the Bogeyman. Scaring, lulling and making mock.
    1999Review Open access Show more
  • Gender and magic in junkun folktales
    Publication . Dinslage, Sabine; Storch, Anne
    Gender conflict, fear of female sexuality and then magic to prevent women from predominating a society are a common topic in tales almost all over Africa and perhaps throughout the world. The Jukun of Northeastern Nigeria are, however, an extreme example for an almost overwhelming fear of female sexuality and are a whole society bound together by magic and fear.
    1999Journal article Open access Show more
  • Perspectives on cowgirls, humor and images of the American West
    Publication . McAndrews, Kristin M.
    In the summers of 1992 and 1994, I collected oral narratives from cowgirls or horsewomen living in Winthrop, Washington, a Western theme town. Winthrop is located in the northeast corner of Washington State in the North Cascade Mountains in the Methow Valley. In tourist brochures, this area is often referred to as “the American Alps”. I was looking for work-related humorous stories from women who made their livings primarily working with horses. These women worked physically as hard as any cowboy I met in addition to maintaining their traditional domestic roles as wives and mothers.
    1999Journal article Open access Show more